Bruce McLellan

Retired Wildlife Research Ecologist

Wednesday, June 11, 2025
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Where: Whitefish Community Center

Bruce will cover some of the bear ecology in his book "Grizzly Bear Science and the Art of a Wilderness Life: Forty Years of Research in the Flathead Valley," and leave time for questions and discussion.

This event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Bruce McLellan is a retired Wildlife Research Ecologist who, since 1978, has done radio telemetry and DNA based field research on grizzly bears and caribou in several locations in British Columbia.  He has authored dozens of science journal papers on these species. Over the decades he has been involved with many land-use, access management, and recreation management processes and, with others, initiated the Bear Awareness Society in the 1990s that now evolved into Wildsafe BC.  Bruce has been President of the International Association for Bear Research and Management, then co-chaired the IUCN Bear Specialist Group for 15 years and is now is the Redlist Authority for this group. In his retirement he wrote the book “Grizzly Bear Science and the Art of a Wilderness Life” that summarizes his 45 year study of grizzly bears in the Flathead Valley.