Avery Shawler, PhD

Frontiers | Cowboying for coexistence? Range riding in the New West As wolf and grizzly bear populations recover across the American West, livestock producers face renewed challenges of coexistence, prompting increased intere...

Currently furloughed, but the publication wheel keeps on spinning...

Check out our new article in Frontiers in Conservation Science: "Cowboying for coexistence? Range riding in the New West" doi.org/10.3389/fcos...

#wildlifeconflict #wolves #rangeriding

13.10.2025 16:14 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Yellowstone-area wolves observed moving pups to follow elk — upending scientific assumptions - WyoFile Study refutes widespread understanding that gray wolves, anchored by young offspring, don’t move during spring denning season.

Scientific research has long assumed gray wolves are non-migratory during springtime, staying put to tend to litters of nearly helpless pups.

A new study on wolves and elk near Cody upends that notion.

11.08.2025 14:39 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

This research wouldn't have been possible without my amazing and supportive co-authors: my friends and former labmates -@kristinjbarker.bsky.social & @wenjingxu.bsky.social , my PhD advisor - Arthur Middleton, and collaborators at WGFD - Tony Mong and Ken Mills!

01.08.2025 20:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We found evidence of wolves shifting homesites with young pups along elk migratory routes to their summer ranges. We even have trail camera evidence from Wyoming Game and Fish Department of a 1-2 month old pup being carried from the den to a rendezvous site!

01.08.2025 20:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Pups in tow, Yellowstone-area wolves trek long distances to stay near prey - Berkeley News For the first time, a UC Berkeley-led research team has observed gray wolves outside of the Arctic migrating during pup-rearing season.

Excited to share the first publication from my PhD research about wolves using diverse movement tactics, including migrating and moving young pups, to track the partially migratory Cody elk herd in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem! news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/01/p...

01.08.2025 20:17 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Congrats Lauren!!

16.07.2025 17:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

These recommendations are from interviews, discussions, and surveys from producers, agency staff, and other experts working on wildlife conflict on working lands. 2/2

20.03.2025 15:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Building Trust A guide for agenciesworking with producersto reduce wildlife conflicts Wildlife conflict on working lands can strain relationships between livestock producers and wildlife agencies, making trust cr...

Excited to share my first publication with Western Landowners Alliance, “Building Trust: A guide for agencies working with producers to reduce wildlife conflicts” westernlandowners.org/publication/... 1/2.

20.03.2025 15:50 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Hi federal employees! A little good news — you can now read HCN for free ⚡

13.03.2025 15:46 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

‼️worth repeating: if you're a Forest Service employee in the West who's being impacted by layoffs or has insight into wtf is going on and how ops/landscape/people will be changed, I can be reached on Signal at 509-953-7883.

14.02.2025 18:39 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Solar and wind growth in China has ramped up to 1400 GW of installed capacity.

The news getting you down? I invite you to stare at this chart of solar and wind deployed capacity in China.

They blew past their ambitious 2030 target... last July.

04.02.2025 22:44 — 👍 2486    🔁 568    💬 63    📌 52

Oh look it’s me. Lol I didn’t even know they posted this. I had to hear it from one of my faculty that was complementing me on the interview.

25.01.2025 01:52 — 👍 177    🔁 33    💬 2    📌 0

Join the WV Coop Unit at West Virginia University to conduct research on reintroduced elk in West Virginia in cooperation with the WV Division of Natural Resources. You'll work with a unique GPS dataset from nearly all elk within the population in the 9+ years following reintroduction. Possible research directions include investigating spatial responses to habitat management, creating movement models to improve disease surveillance, and evaluating monitoring strategies. Lots of flexibility to develop research questions related to your own interests! For more information and to apply, visit: https://jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id=102033

Hiring a PhD student (August 2025 start) to work on research related to elk reintroduction/spatial ecology using a large long-term dataset. Lots of flexibility in developing specific research questions! See the job link for more info: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

06.01.2025 17:55 — 👍 21    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1

A Mountain Lion Attacked My Nephews. What Could Have Stopped It? As dangerous encounters in California continue to rise, local residents and wildlife experts are trying to figure out how humans and big cats can coexist.

This is well written, even if you are someone who doesn't agree with everything written - plus he mentions 3 studies from my lab :)
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/m...

31.12.2024 19:37 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Tomorrow at 12pm MDT, Western Landowners Alliance is hosting a free virtual screening of "Against the Herd" - a film about a family operation using cattle to restore rangelands. Afterwards there will be a discussion with a great lineup of panelists! westernlandowners.org/films/agains...

16.12.2024 17:20 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0