RANCHING/LIVESTOCK:
JOE ENGELHART

Mr. Engelhart has been running cattle his entire life, caring for both yearlings and cow/calf pairs. He was born in British Columbia, and was raised on a cow/calf operation south of Houston, B.C. Unlike ranchers in the western United States, where wolves have made a relatively recent recovery, Canadian ranchers have been dealing with the presence of wolf packs for a long time.

Joe has lived in Alberta for the past 18 years, 11 of them managing a ranching cooperative on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. The livestock summer in high mountain country and winter on lower rangeland, grazing in areas where wolf packs also live.

Interested in learning and exploring new ways of living in harmony with wolves and other large carnivores while grazing cattle, Joe has attended seminars hosted by Defenders of Wildlife. He has also worked closely with biologists Charles Mano and Timm Kaminski on collaring and monitoring three wolf packs in the area of his operation.

Mr. Engelhart is eager to share techniques used on both sides of the border to limit the conflict caused by the interaction of wolves and livestock.