Wildlife Scientist, and Wolverine Monitoring Project Manager
Kylie works with mammals and wildlife trail cameras at MPG. She helps run the wildlife trail camera network and the black bear monitoring project. Kylie also runs the multi-year Wolverine Watchers citizen science wildlife monitoring program that she started in her previous work with Defenders of Wildlife. This project has documented 10 wolverines and 3 fishers in the northern portion of the Bitterroot National Forest and has benefited from hundreds of hours of field work by over 150 volunteers.
Kylie has long been involved in wildlife and conservation issues in western Montana. Prior to MPG, Kylie worked at Defenders of Wildlife leading the mesocarnivore program and highway/wildlife conflict program in the Rockies. Previously, she worked at an environmental consulting firm as a wildlife biologist and on policy and technical writing projects. She has also worked on contract with many conservation organizations on a variety of projects with her own consulting business. Kylie holds a Masters of Science from the University of Montana’s Environmental Studies department. Her published thesis work assessed citizen science’s ability to document wildlife along roadways in order to reduce wildlife/road conflict. Her wildlife career started after undergrad graduation as a field tech, moving project to project across the country to work with wolves, sea otters, prairie dogs, and songbirds. Her interest in wildlife, conservation, and the outdoors started probably while in the womb.
When she’s not examining wildlife videos and coordinating with wolverine volunteers at MPG, Kylie is off playing sports and recreating outdoors (skiing of all kinds, mountain biking, hiking, hockey, ultimate frisbee, etc etc) frequently in some kind of costume. Or she’s volunteering for a conservation effort, or gardening, reading, or playing with her pets and partner and friends.
