Jay is joined by Christopher Servheen, who retired from the US Fish and Wildlife Service in 2016 after 35 years as the Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator. Servheen was an Adjunct Research Associate Professor in the College of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Montana from 1992 to 2018. As the Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator, he was responsible for coordinating all the research and management on grizzly bears in the lower 48 states and working closely with grizzly biologists in Alberta and British Columbia. Servheen wrote the Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan and was the EIS Team Leader for the Bitterroot Grizzly Bear Reintroduction EIS and was responsible for the delisting rule for the Yellowstone grizzly population in 2007, and he drafted the delisting rule in 2016 prior to his retirement.

His interests involve bear conservation and management and the relationships between human activities and bear distribution and survival. Servheen has worked in many countries in Asia and in Europe on bears and bear conservation including Japan, Malaysia, China, Taiwan, Laos, Greece, Austria, France, and Spain. He was a Fulbright Scholar working on brown bear conservation in Greece in 1994.

He is currently the President and Board Chair of the Montana Wildlife Federation and Co-chair of the North American Bears Expert Team for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).