We're pleased to welcome Paul Frame to News of the North. As a practicing wildlife biologist, Paul has worked for conservation throughout North America. He has spent time on the Western Great Lakes, Northern Rocky Mountain States, and the Mexican Wolf recovery programs. He also conducted field research in the Northwest Territories that focused on the response of denning wolves to human activity at both the local and landscape scales. Some of this research was the first to document barren-ground wolves of northern Canada traveling great distances from their pups at dens to hunt migratory caribou during summer. Analyses of these data are ongoing. Currently Paul is a wildlife biologist for the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board in Iqaluit, Nunavut. One of the issues the Board is dealing with right now is how best to balance conservation of declining polar bear populations with the culturally and economically important Inuit harvest of the species. This is a tough enough task on its own, and recent trends in climate from and sea ice are making it a serious conservation challenge. You can find out more about the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board at www.nwmb.com.

Paul will be writing updates here about environmental happenings in the North and his experiences as a conservation biologist. Welcome, Paul!