A Conversation that Matters: Wolves on the Colorado Landscape
Eileen McCafferty, a graduate student in Western Colorado University’s Master in Environmental Management Program, carried out an effort to conduct interviews and research wolf management practices across the country and world, which might be used to aid Coloradans in civic discourse associated with wolf reintroduction.
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A GIS StoryMap that showcases wolf management plans in all current gray wolf-inhabited states and some international locations.
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An Environmental Issues Guide using the Center for Civic Engagement’s Deliberative Dialog approach intended to initiate conversations between stakeholders to identify points of compromise. (Coming Soon!)
Eileen McCafferty is a lifelong New Yorker and at a young age, her fascination with wolves took flight. During her undergraduate program at Ramapo College of New Jersey, she was introduced to Human-Wildlife Conflict. This set her down the path of working on the human side of wildlife management, hoping that her work in compromised solutions and Deliberative Democracy would help wolves gain back more of their historic range. At the start of her graduate program at Western Colorado University, Colorado was preparing to vote on the wolf reintroduction project, and this was a serendipitous way for her to start her journey for her masters. Eileen is always juggling several jobs at a time, but during her free time, she enjoys backpacking and camping, volunteer work with youth and animals, as well as art.
