Photo: Brad Orsted
WHO WE ARE
We seek to protect grizzly bears and the ecosystems that they depend on. We share admiration and awe of the grizzly bear and hope to do our bit to restore a sense of the sacred of the wild.
To us, grizzly bear recovery is not a technocratic problem, it is a spiritual and moral one, which demands that we examine how the lives of humans, bears and other beings are intertwined.
As we bear witness to our own experience and perspectives, we hope that you will share yours.
Grizzly Times Founder, Louisa Willcox
Working for Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, and Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Louisa has advocated for grizzly bear preservation for over 30 years. She specializes in developing comprehensive strategies that succeed because they work on multiple scales using various approaches, including grassroots organizing and outreach, education, media and communication, policy analysis, lobbying, coalition development, and public protest. She and a handful of others have prevented Yellowstone grizzly bear delisting for over two decades. Louisa has a BA from Williams College and a Masters of Forest Policy from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. In 2014, she was given a lifetime achievement award from Yale.
Grizzly Times Founder, Dr. David Mattson
David has studied both grizzly bears and mountain lions for the last 35 years, including 15 years of intensive field investigations in Yellowstone. He is also intrigued by what goes on in peoples’ heads, especially that which is relevant to understanding policy dynamics and the role and effects of scientific information. Dr. Mattson has pursued his interests as a Research Wildlife Biologist and Station Leader with the U.S. Geological Survey, as Western Field Director of the MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative, as Lecturer & Visiting Senior Scientist at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and as part of the Advisory Team for People & Carnivores.