Author Biographies

L. David Mech is an internationally recognized wolf expert who has been a wildlife research biologist studying wolves for the U.S. Department of the Interior since 1970, and an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota since 1979. He has published numerous articles about wolves and other wildlife and five books about wolves, including The Wolf, published by the University of Minnesota Press, and The Arctic Wolf.

Layne G. Adams was a wildlife research biologist for the National Park Service in Alaska from 1985 to 1993, until the U.S. Department of the Interior research was consolidated into the U.S. Geological Survey. He has studied mountain goats, grizzly bears, caribou, raptors and wolves and has published numerous articles about them.

Thomas J. Meier is a wildlife biologist who has studied wolves since 1976. After working in Minnesota and Wisconsin, he moved to Alaska in 1986 to conduct fieldwork for the Denali wolf project along with John Burch. Meier has published several articles about wolves, and he is working towards a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota on the relationship between wolf pack spacing and wolf genetics.

John W. Burch studied wolves in Minnesota from 1980 to 1985 and was hired as a wildlife biologist in Alaska to help carry out fieldwork for the Denali wolf Project. Burch is studying wolves in Yukon Charley Rivers National Park for the U.S. National Park Service. He has authored several articles about wolves and is working toward a master's degree at the University of Alaska on computer analysis of wolf location data.

Bruce W. Dale conducted research with the U.S. National Park Serice in Alaska from 1984 to 1995 on wolves, moose, and caribou and has published several articles about these species. He is currently a wildlife biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.