[Vision2020] News Release: World-renowned ungulate biologist to speak Feb. 20 in Moscow

[Friends of the Clearwater]

>World Renowned Ungulate Biologist to Speak About Central Idaho's Wildlands
>
>Dr. Jim Peek, Professor Emeritus of Wildlife Resources at the 
>University of Idaho, will be sharing his studies of the Central 
>Idaho Wildlands on Tuesday, 20 February, 7:00 p.m. at the U of I Law 
>School Courtroom (corner of 6th and Rayburn). Peek will share data 
>collected and insight gained from years of field research in the 
>Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness and surrounding wild 
>country.
>
>A world-renowned elk biologist, Dr. Peek has been studying the 
>ungulates of the Central Idaho Wildlands and surrounding region for 
>decades. His extensive research in the Frank Church Wilderness will 
>be the basis of his lecture that will reveal the ecological 
>relationships between the region's rich wildlife, including wolves, 
>elk, mule deer, and big horn sheep, and the ways in which these 
>wildlife populations are shaped by snow, drought, predation, and 
>most notably, fire.
>
>"The Frank", as it is often known, at two and a third million acres, 
>makes up a large portion of the wild heart of Central Idaho. 
>Combined with the Gospel Hump and Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas 
>to the north, Central Idaho boasts the largest wilderness complex in 
>the lower 48 states.
>
>These protected Wilderness areas and adjacent roadless country 
>continue to function in large part as they have since time 
>immemorial, providing clean water, clean air, healthy and dynamic 
>wildlife populations, and a high quality of life for those who spend 
>time there. This region still supports the proliferation of almost 
>every native species that has historically been present in the area 
>including wolves, wild steelhead and chinook salmon, mountain goats, 
>wolverines, and bull trout.
>
>Dr. Peek's expertise on this region and its wildlife is undeniable. 
>In addition to his work in "the Frank," he was involved in a 5-year 
>study of the wolves in the Copper River Delta, Alaska, chaired the 
>position statement for The Wildlife Society on wolves, and was on 
>the Idaho Wolf Management Committee, appointed by the state 
>legislature. Though he retired in 1999, he is still holds an office 
>on the U of I campus as a professor of wildlife resources.
>
>The wealth of information Dr. Peek has collected through years of 
>research and professional experience provide him with a unique 
>perspective, a big picture interlaced with solid scientific data and 
>conclusion. According to Peek, "the balance of nature is a dynamic 
>process, not the status quo." Please join us as we have the 
>opportunity to learn from an incredible scientist and community 
>resource concerning our region's rich natural heritage. There will 
>be a brief reception following Dr. Peek's talk.
>
>This talk is sponsored by Friends of the Clearwater, the Palouse 
>Group of the Sierra Club, UI Society for People and the Environment, 
>and the UI Environmental Law Society. Co-sponsors include 
>Groundworks, Palouse Prairie Foundation, Paradise Ridge Defense 
>Council, Moscow High School Environmental Club, Palouse Audubon 
>Society, Idaho Native Plant Soceity-White Pine Chapter, UI 
>Environmental Club, and the Wolf Education Research Center.
>
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