Next General Meeting - January 16 at Kirk United Church Center

Our Guest Speaker:

Dr. Evelyn Merrill (Evie) is a Professor in the Dept. of Biological Sciences at the Univ. of Alberta. She received her MSc from the Univ. of Idaho and her PhD from the Univ. of Washington. She has conducted research on deer and elk foraging and habitat ecology for the past 40 years in a diversity of ecosystems across North America. She and her students’ current research include a 19-year study of the trophic dynamics of a partially migratory elk population in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, and spatial spread and population transmission of CWD in the prairies provinces of Canada. She is a Fellow of The Wildlife Society, served as President of The Canadian Section and the Alberta Chapter of The Wildlife Society, and is Canadian Section Representative to TWS, and as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Wildlife Management. She was awarded Dedicated Service and the William Rowan Distinguished Professional Award from the Alberta Chapter of TWS, and the Wildlife Researcher Award from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Her hobbies include traveling, gardening, horseback riding and entertaining her grandkids.