Sponsored by “Living with Wolves,” Carter Niemeyer speaks about about how wolves are doing 20 years after their reintroduction into Yellowstone and Central Idaho. He will be signing copies of his most recent memoir, Wolf Land.
Carter Niemeyer is an Iowa native and has Bachelor of Science (1970) and Masters (1973) degrees in wildlife biology from Iowa State University. He was a trapper for the Montana Department of Livestock, and a district supervisor for USDA Wildlife Services in western Montana managing and controlling large predators. He was then chosen as the wolf management specialist for USDA Wildlife Services covering the states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. In that position, he was responsible for livestock depredation investigations, as well as wolf capture and removal. His tenure with USDA lasted 26 years. Niemeyer was a member of the wolf capture team in Canada during reintroduction in the mid-1990s. He was recruited by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to run the federal wolf recovery program in Idaho, and retired in 2006, coincidentally on the same day wolf management was officially handed over to the state of Idaho. Since retiring he has worked for Washington State University on livestock/wolf interaction research and in northern California on emerging wolf issues. His work has taken him to England, Scotland, France and Kyrgyzstan. In 2010 he published Wolfer, a memoir of his career. His second memoir, Wolf Land, published in 2016.
