Panelist 2: Suzanne Stone

Suzanne Asha Stone is the Senior Northwest Representative for Defenders of Wildlife. She has worked in wolf restoration in Idaho and throughout the northern Rockies since 1988, including serving as a member of the 1995/1996... [ view full abstract ]

Suzanne Asha Stone is the Senior Northwest Representative for Defenders of Wildlife. She has worked in wolf restoration in Idaho and throughout the northern Rockies since 1988, including serving as a member of the 1995/1996 USA/Canadian wolf reintroduction team. Over the last two decades, Suzanne has worked directly with ranchers and farmers to help livestock owners and wildlife managers devise and implement strategies to minimize wolf and livestock conflicts. Today, she is assisting wildlife and livestock managers by providing recommendations for proactive, nonlethal methods to minimize conflicts in regional and international hot spots. Suzanne is a co-founder of the Wood River Wolf Project and is the lead author in the recent Journal of Mammalogy Oxford Press publication Adaptive use of nonlethal strategies for minimizing wolf–sheep conflict in Idaho and Defenders' recent publication Livestock and Wolves: A Guide to Nonlethal Tools and Methods to Reduce Conflict.