Maggie Triska, conservation scientist at RRCS, was invited to join 30 researchers in Paradise Valley, Montana for a workshop entitled: Transatlantic perspectives on Conservation and Wildlife Management. Participants came from government agencies, universities, and nonprofit organizations – with half arriving from Germany.

The workshop took place at the end of May over 3 days and included presentations, discussions, and site visits to Yellowstone National Park and neighboring ranches in Paradise Valley. There was a focus on projects and experience from work on carnivores related to human dimensions, human-wildlife conflicts, and coexistence. Maggie was excited to attend and learned a lot from the diverse group and their interactions, and was particularly interested in the approaches utilized to assess the human dimensions of wildlife.