11/26/2025
The Walden Woods Project and RESTORE: The North Woods for a special presentation from George Wuerthner
About George Wuerthner:
George Wuerthner is an ecologist with a long-standing interest in wolves. He helped promote wolf restoration in Yellowstone, Oregon, and California. He has previously worked as a backcountry ranger in the Gates of the Arctic National Park in Alaska, river ranger and biologist on several Wild and Scenic Rivers in Alaska, and a rare plant biologist for the BLM in Idaho. He also has been a wilderness guide in Glacier Bay and Yellowstone National Parks. Over the years he has visited more than 400 designated wilderness areas and more than 200 National Park units. He has published 38 books, including Protecting the Wild and Keeping the Wild. For a dozen years, he worked as Ecological Projects Director for Doug Tompkins’s Foundation for Deep Ecology and is now Executive Director of Public Lands Media. He is also board president of RESTORE: the North Woods, as well as board president of the Montana Wild Bison Restoration Council, the Gallatin Yellowstone Wilderness Association, and Sage Steppe Wild.
Wuerthner will provide background on the Endangered Species Act as it relates to wolf restoration, how wolves have shaped ecosystems like Yellowstone and how wolf restoration in Oregon and California has progressed. He will also discuss wolves in New England and opportunities for wolf restoration in the region.
