Please join us! 

We are excited to share that Carter Niemeyer, from the Science and Recovery sub-committee of the Living with Wolves Advisory Board will be speaking at the Community Library in Ketchum on Thursday, September 29th at 6pm. 

Carter, along with a small team of biologists, captured 66 wolves in Alberta and British Columbia and brought them to Yellowstone National Park and Central Idaho in the mid 1990’s for the federal wolf reintroduction program and now he’s coming to Ketchum to talk to you about how wolves are doing 20 years later. 

Carter will also be signing copies of his most recent memoir, Wolf Land. Carter’s dramatic evolution from a professional trapper for the USDA Wildlife Services, to a wolf recovery specialist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife and the Idaho Fish and Game, to a wolf conservationist and author gives him a truly unique and insightful understanding of the issues wolves face today. 

About Carter Niemeyer:

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, was published in 2016.