Jay does a two-part interview with Doug Chadwick, author of more than 15 books about wildlife. Doug is an American wildlife biologist, photographer, and frequent National Geographic contributor. He is the author of more than 200 articles on wildlife and wild places, many in National Geographic magazine, as well as several other scientific papers. Chadwick graduated from the University of Washington, Seattle, with a B.S. in Zoology. He then earned an M.S. in Wildlife Biology from the University of Montana, Missoula. After graduating, he worked as a research wildlife biologist studying mountain goats and grizzly bears in northwestern Montana.

Chadwick is a current member of the boards of the Gobi Bear Fund and The Vital Ground Foundation, which seeks to acquire land in the Yellowstone-Yukon wildlife corridor. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Liz Claiborne Art Ortenberg Foundation in New York. Doug Chadwick’s affiliation with National Geographic spans more than 35 years, and more than 50 articles from the first in 1977 up to an assignment in 2019 for an article on wolverines. Other articles which have featured his work include Smithsonian Magazine, Defenders Magazine, Audubon, and Outside. He has appeared in two PBS documentaries, Night of the Grizzlies in 2010 and Wolverine, Chasing the Phantom. His latest book is 4/5 a Grizzly, published in 2020.