Eric Burnham

     This is a picture of the remains of a wolf-killed adult female elk.  We know if was an adult from the jawbone, which we found nearby, and we know it was a female from the skull which had no an...

     I volunteered as a field technician for the USFWS Mexican Wolf Recovery Program between 6/20/16 and 7/15/16.   I did this primarily as a way to collect scats from wild wolves, ...

I met with my friend, Kent Laudon, who is the field team coordinator for the USFWS Mexican gray wolf recovery program on Tuesday at his office in Alpine, AZ. Kent told me that his team could ...

Dear Backers, Thanks to you, the project is now fully funded!! I plan to get started collecting scats in September, when the wolves and their pups have left their dens. I will concentrate m...

Dear Supporters, I recently decided to lower the funding goal for the project from $6000 to $1500. This means that I will be donating my time to collect scats, and the budget will now cover fu...

In the winter of 1999-2000, I worked as a field technician for the Wyoming Wolf Project in the area north of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The Wyoming Wolf Project was part of the U.S. Fish & Wildlif...

Some months ago, I devised a way to sample volatile organic compounds (VOCs; volatile chemicals) from a footprint. I coated magnetic beads with a type of polymer, or plastic, that adsorbs VOCs fro...

The good news is that there are now more than 100 Mexican gray wolves in the wild. However, this does not mean that the program is out of jeopardy. Two of the most significant threats to the pro...

I worked one field season as a field technician with the Nez Perce tribe's wolf project based in McCall, Idaho. The tribe was under contract with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to manage wol...