On Friday, June 04, 2004, visitors and park employees will have an opportunity to attend a lecture and slide presentation by the internationally recognized wildlife biologist Dr. Stephen Herrero, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Environmental Design at Alberta, Canada. The program will be held at the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel Map Room starting at 7:00 PM and is open to the public at no charge.

In his program, "Living with Bears," Dr. Herrero will share some of what he has learned over the past 37 years through his research on grizzly bear conservation. Dr. Herrero's visit to the park will be a homecoming, of sorts. Dr. Herrero first visited Yellowstone in 1969, and has returned 6-7 times for a variety of reasons-including meeting with park staff, participating in conferences, camping with his family, doing research, and-just like other visitors-spending time in the field watching bears! "Over the years, Yellowstone has become close to my heart," Dr. Herrero recently noted.

Dr. Herrero's distinguished career includes a number of major achievements:

• Along with other wildlife biologists, began and executed Canada's successful swift fox reintroduction.

• Authored more than 150 publications including "Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance," which was nominated for the Wildlife Societies' Best Book of the Year 1985.

• Past Chairperson (1986-1989) of the World Wildlife Federation Canada's Prairie Conservation Action Committee to restore rare, threatened, and endangered species and communities on the Canadian prairie.

• Recipient of numerous awards for his contributions to wildlife conservation and protection, including the Alberta Achievement Award (1985) for wildlife and conservation work and the James B. Harkin award (1999) of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society for contributions in conservation, science, and natural area protection.

• Currently the Chair of the Eastern Slopes Grizzly Bear Project-a multi-stakeholder, multi-jurisdictional research, management and conservation effort to share population and habitat research on grizzly bears among government, industry, environmental non-government organizations, universities, and other interested parties.

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