Shana Drimal will present on the history of the Yellowstone bison issue as well as her work at the Greater Yellowstone Coalition to support the ecological and cultural restoration of bison on Tribal and public ancestral lands across Greater Yellowstone and beyond.
Shana Drimal is a Wildlife Program Manager for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition (GYC), based in Bozeman MT. In her role, she provides strategic leadership to GYC’s policies and programs to conserve, manage and protect the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s iconic wildlife, with a specific focus on ungulates and the ecological and cultural restoration of bison. Shana strives to use a collaborative and science-based approach to advocate for policies, programs, and on-ground solutions to restore Yellowstone bison to Tribal and public ancestral lands, support migratory ungulates, landscape permeability and connectivity, and protect important winter habitat and corridor areas throughout Greater Yellowstone.
Before joining GYC, she worked for more than a decade with various agencies and institutions researching some of our most iconic and controversial wildlife species and issues throughout Greater Yellowstone, the Northern Rocky Mountains, Alaska, and Africa. In conjunction with her graduate research, she studied wolf, grizzly bear, elk, and bison dynamics as a project lead for the Integrated Ecological Science Program in central Yellowstone. One of the primary objectives of this project was to contribute applied research to help resolve complex and controversial management and conservation issues throughout Greater Yellowstone. Shana is passionate about finding practical solutions to mitigate human-wildlife conflict and encouraging coexistence between local people and wildlife.
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