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B&C Fellows at the 87th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference

At the Boone and Crockett Club's 2022 Spring meeting, in conjunction with the Wildlife Management Institute’s 87th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference in Spokane, Washington, four of our B&C University Programs Fellows presented at the luncheon on Thursday, March 17. One of the presenters was 2021 Outstanding Boone and Crockett Fellow Award winner Ellen Pero of the University of Montana. Ellen presented research from her dissertation, “Integrated Ecology of a Reintroduction: Management of Restored Elk in Missouri.”

Growing up, Ellen spent summers on the lake and in the woods of Michigan, developing an eagerness to spend her life working with and for the natural world. She received her bachelor’s degree in Fisheries and Wildlife from Michigan State University and her master’s degree from the University of Manitoba, where she studied the behavioral ecology of a threatened ground squirrel. At the University of Montana, Ellen is focusing on how elk population dynamics, physiological stress, movement and resource selection, and reproductive behavior interact and progress following reintroduction to a new landscape. Ellen aims to obtain a research biologist position with a state or federal agency where her work can inform wildlife management, conservation, and policy.