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Jim Williams

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Jim is an Explorers Club Fellow, and an award-winning, professionally certified wildlife biologist who worked for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks for 31 years. Jim was honored with the prestigious Explorers Club Alan Rabinowitz Memorial Award in 2024. Jim received the National Park Service Wildlife Collaboration Award in 2023. Jim is currently the partnerships manager and wildlife biologist for the Heart of the Rockies Initiative. The Initiative supports and partners with 29 land trusts in the northern Rockies and Canada. Jim works to protect wildlife connectivity in the Keep It Connected program by supporting local and regional land trusts in the northern Rockies. Jim received an undergraduate degree in biology with an emphasis on marine biology from San Diego State and Florida State universities and his graduate degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University in Bozeman. Jim studied mountain lion ecology for his Master’s Degree on Montana's Rocky Mountain Front and has focused on mountain lion and other wildlife conservation issues in various roles ever since. As a wildlife biologist in central Montana, Jim managed big game populations ranging from pronghorn antelope and elk to mountain goats, worked with private agricultural landowners on wildlife tolerance issues, developed new conservation easements, wildlife management areas and other habitat conservation projects. Later as the Montana FWP Wildlife Program Manager, Jim led a talented group of research and wildlife management biologists and his team developed grizzly bear monitoring and research programs, initiated western Montana’s first wolf conservation program, and provided program support and leadership on multiple wildlife habitat conservation projects. Most recently as the Regional Montana FWP Director for northwestern Montana, Jim provided leadership and support for parks and recreation, wildlife, fisheries, game wardens and all administration teams. Jim has worked with wildlife biologists in both Chile and Argentina on a variety of wildlife conservation projects. In 2018, Patagonia Inc. published his autobiography, Path of the Puma, which shares some of those adventures and the story of mountain lion conservation in the Americas. Penguin Random House Audio recently published the audio version of Path of the Puma which Jim personally narrated. Jim and his wife Melora live in the charming ski town of Whitefish, Montana just west of Glacier National Park.
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