Managing Wildlife on the Western Landscape

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

10:30 AM – 11:45 AM MT

Location: International Center South

Moderator(s)

Amy Watrud (she/her/hers)

Senior Manager, Environmental Compliance & Strategy
Invenergy

Speaker(s)

Aaron Facka, PhD

Senior Wildlife Biologist
Wildlands Network, New Mexico

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Laurel Hill, M.S. (she/her/hers)

Regional Energy Coordinator
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Mountain-Prairie Region, Colorado

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Chad LeBeau (he/him/his)

Senior Biologist
Western EcoSystems Technology (WEST)
Laramie, Wyoming

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Karen Tyrell, PhD (she/her/hers)

Principal Ecologist
Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. (WEST)
Cheyenne, Wyoming

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In this panel you will hear from experts, where they will draw upon decades of experience navigating challenges in the interaction of western wildlife such as bats, grouse, whooping cranes, and large mammals, and renewable energy development in a changing regulatory landscape. Participants will leave the session with specific examples on how various stakeholders can plan to begin to address these challenges and uncertainties facing the conservation of these species with renewable energy development goals.