This interview  is with Renee Callahan, Senior Policy Officer for the Center for Large Landscapes Coalition in Bozeman. Renee has her Bachelors’ degree from Harvard University, and obtained her law degree from American University. She has worked for the Attorney General’s office at the Department of Justice in Washington and her Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences & Management from the University of California in Santa Barbara.

With a background in environmental science, management, and law, Renee lends her legal expertise in administrative processes, legislative language and judicial rulings to CLLC’s policy work, with the goal of promoting public policies that facilitate ecological connectivity and large landscape conservation. In grad school in California, Renee specialized in conservation planning and coastal marine resources management, with a focus on habitat connectivity and climate change. She has over a decade of professional legal experience working on federal regulatory law and public policy issues in Washington, D.C.

Our interview with Renee is about wildlife-vehicle collisions on Montana’s highways and what is being done to minimize these collisions.