Douglas H. Chadwick

Chadwick and Gobi Bear: Photo by Hunter J. Causey

Douglas H. Chadwick (born 1948) is an American wildlife biologist, author, photographer and frequent National Geographic contributor. He is a past officer and member of the board of The Vital Ground Foundation, and chairman of that organization's Lands Committee, responsible for choosing acquisition properties as part of the Yellowstone to Yukon wildlife corridor system. Chadwick is also a director of the Gobi Bear Fund, part of the Gobi Bear Initiative,[1] which attempts to restore population of this most endangered of all the yellow bears.

Chadwick's affiliation with National Geographic spans more than thirty-five years and more than fifty articles from the first in 1977[2] up to assignments in 2013 for articles on cougars, wolverines and Gobi bears.

Single species studies

Chadwick's research involves multi-year projects of extended close observation in species habitat, trapping, radio collar tracking, mapping, and studies of community relationships. In this manner, he has studied wolverines[3] in the northwestern U.S. and Canada, mountain goats[4] and grizzlies[5] in the Rockies, and elephants[6] in Africa.

Wildlife corridors

In his work for Vital Ground, Chadwick evaluates potential corridor lands to link the five protected grizzly bear habitats in the lower 48 states and British Columbia and Alberta in Canada. He has guided land and easement acquisitions in, for example,the Cabinet-Purcell Wildlife Linkage Initiative Area,[7] the Selkirk Initiative,[8] and the Bismark Meadows in Idaho.[9]

Chadwick with Glacier wolverine (Photo by Rick Yates, U.S. Forest Service)

Glacier Wolverine Project

In 2006, Chadwick began what would become a five-year participation in the Glacier Wolverine Project,[10] to follow a small set of wolverines as they traveled over their extensive habitat centered on and around Glacier National Park (U.S.). This study was the subject of Chadwick's book, The Wolverine Way,[3] and the PBS/Nature documentary "Wolverine: Chasing the Phantom."[11] Chadwick played a major on-screen role in the Nature documentary. The Glacier Wolverine Project was conducted by the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, Montana, under the leadership of principal investigator, Jeffrey Copeland.[12]

Bibliography

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Scientific publications

Books and chapters

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Essays and reporting

References

  1. "Golden Grizzlies of the Gobi" Bare Essentials Magazine, January/February, 2012
  2. Douglas H. Chadwick, "The Flathead National Wild and Scenic River" National Geographic, July, 1977.
  3. 1 2 Chadwick, D.H., The Wolverine Way, Patagonia Books, 2010.
  4. A Beast the Color of Winter. Sierra Club Books, 1983. The natural history, ecology, and behavior of the mountain goat. 208pp.
  5. “The Great Bear Count” Defenders of Wildlife, Spring, 2009. Census of grizzlies in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem.
  6. The Fate of the Elephant. Sierra Club Books, 1992. British Edition by Viking/Penguin. Selected as one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review. 492pp.
  7. Bare Essentials Magazine, “Protecting the Right Places.”
  8. Vital Ground website, “Selkirk Grizzly Bear Habitat Conservation Initiative.”
  9. "Bismark Meadows site acquired to aid grizzlies," Bonner County Daily Bee, January 9, 2011
  10. Glacier Wolverine Project
  11. PBS/Nature documentary, "Wolverine: Chasing the Phantom"
  12. Jeffrey P. Copeland, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station and Founder of The Wolverine Foundation
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