Dr. Diane Boyd has more than four decades of applied expertise on behavior, conservation and management of wild wolf populations. She began her career in 1977 with Dr. L. David Mech’s wolf research project in Minnesota. She moved to Montana in 1979 to study gray wolf recovery in the Rocky Mountains, from the first natural colonizer to approximately 3,000 wolves today in the western U.S. Her work has focused on wolf ecology, dispersal, habitat use, prey selection, behavior, morphology, genetic relationships, and the social dimensions of wolf-human conflict resolution. She has collaborated on research in the Rocky Mountains of the U.S., British Columbia, Alberta, the Mexican Wolf Recovery Program, and wolf research projects in Italy and Romania. She has published more than fifty articles in scientific journals, invited book chapters, and articles in popular literature. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Montana. Diane recently retired from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks as the Region 1 Wolf and Carnivore Specialist, but she is continuing her wolf conservation efforts on a broader scale through teaching and writing. Her debut memoir, “A Woman Among Wolves: My Forty Year Journey Through Wolf Recovery” was released September 10, 2024. In her free time, Diane enjoys training pointing dogs, bird hunting, and traveling to remote places in search of wild game birds. September through December, you can find her and her two pointers exploring the wild reaches of Montana, Idaho and Arizona, Scamp trailer in tow. Cross-country skiing (classic and skate) are her winter passions. Writing and oil painting fill out her days.