Faren Wolter, Ph.D.

Faren focuses on balancing the needs of wildlife with the needs of people through collaborative planning and stewardship. She uses outreach and extension training, along with social science research and methods, to engage diverse partners and voices to build collaborative grassroots efforts that co-develop data-driven and socially acceptable natural resources management goals, policy, and on-the-ground conservation actions. She also has a side-interest in training detection canines as a non-invasive field technique to assist wildlife research and conservation.