Douglas H. Chadwick Explained

Douglas H. Chadwick (born February 24, 1948) is an American wildlife biologist, author, photographer and frequent National Geographic contributor. He is the author of fourteen books and more than 200 articles on wildlife and wild places.

Chadwick's affiliation with National Geographic spans more than thirty-five years and more than fifty articles from the first in 1977[1] up to an assignment in 2019 for an article on wolverines. Other publications which have featured his work include: Defenders of Wildlife, Audubon, The Huffington Post, Backpacker, TV Guide, The Smithsonian Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Reader's Digest, and Outside. He has appeared in two PBS documentaries: Night of the Grizzlies (2010) and Wolverine: Chasing the Phantom (2010).

Chadwick is a past officer and current member of the board of The Vital Ground Foundation, and chairman of that organization's Lands Committee, responsible for choosing acquisition properties as part of Vital Ground's One Landscape wildlife corridor system. He is also a director of the Gobi Bear Fund, part of the Gobi Bear Initiative,[2] which attempts to restore the world's least known and most endangered population of grizzly bears. Since 2013 he has served on the advisory board of the Liz Claiborne Art Ortenberg Foundation, a New York-based non-profit that supports wildlife research and collaborative, community-based conservation projects around the world.

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.[3]

Single species studies

Chadwick's research involves multi-year projects of extended close observation in species habitats, radio collar tracking, mapping, and studies of community relationships. In this manner, he has studied wolverines[4] in the northwestern U.S. and Canada, mountain goats[5] and grizzlies[6] in the Rockies, and elephants[7] in Africa.

Wildlife corridors

In his work for Vital Ground, Chadwick evaluates potential corridor lands to link the six recognized grizzly bear recovery ecosystems in the lower 48 states. He has guided land and easement acquisitions in, for example, the Cabinet-Purcell Wildlife Linkage Initiative Area in western Montana,[8] and the Selkirk Initiative[9] which includes the Bismark Meadows area.[10]

Glacier Wolverine Project

In 2006, Chadwick began what would become a five-year participation in the Glacier Wolverine Project,[11] to follow a small set of wolverines as they traveled over their extensive habitat centered on and around Glacier National Park (U.S.). This study was the subject of Chadwick's book, The Wolverine Way, and the PBS/Nature documentary Wolverine: Chasing the Phantom.[12] Chadwick played a major on-screen role in the Nature documentary. The Glacier Wolverine Project was conducted by the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, Montana, under the leadership of principal investigator, Jeffrey Copeland.[13]

Published works

Scientific publications

Books and chapters

Patagonia Books:

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Globe Pequot Press:

Bison Books/University of Nebraska Press:

National Geographic Books:

Island Press:

St. Remy Press

The Nature Company:

Key Porter Books:

The Lyons Press:

Mountaineers Books:

Riverbend Publishing:

Rocky Mountain Land Library:

Essays and reporting

Notes and References

  1. Douglas H. Chadwick, "The Flathead National Wild and Scenic River" National Geographic, July 1977.
  2. http://bareessentialsmagazine.uberflip.com/i/71524/100 "Golden Grizzlies of the Gobi" Bare Essentials Magazine, January/February, 2012
  3. http://www.watertonwildlife.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/Doug%20Chadwick.pdf
  4. Chadwick, D.H., The Wolverine Way, Patagonia Books, 2010.
  5. A Beast the Color of Winter. Sierra Club Books, 1983. The natural history, ecology, and behavior of the mountain goat. 208pp.
  6. “The Great Bear Count” Defenders of Wildlife, Spring, 2009. Census of grizzlies in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem.
  7. The Fate of the Elephant. Sierra Club Books, 1992. British Edition by Viking/Penguin. Selected as one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review. 492pp.
  8. http://bareessentialsmagazine.uberflip.com/i/74365/105 Bare Essentials Magazine, “Protecting the Right Places.”
  9. Web site: Vital Ground website, "Selkirk Grizzly Bear Habitat Conservation Initiative." . June 25, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131218091749/http://www.vitalground.org/how-you-can-help/special-campaigns-funds/right-place-campaign/selkirk-grizzly-bear-habitat-conservation-initiative/ . December 18, 2013 . dead .
  10. "Bismark Meadows site acquired to aid grizzlies," Bonner County Daily Bee, January 9, 2011
  11. http://wolverinefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Glacier.pdf Glacier Wolverine Project
  12. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/wolverine-chasing-the-phantom/introduction/5759/ PBS/Nature documentary, "Wolverine: Chasing the Phantom"
  13. http://www.rmrs.nau.edu/people/jcopeland/ Jeffrey P. Copeland, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
  14. Book: Chadwick . Douglas . Four Fifths a Grizzly: A New Perspective on Nature that Just Might Save Us All . 2021 . Patagonia.
  15. Book: Chadwick . Douglas . The Wolverine Way . 2013 . Patagonia.

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