About James Peek, Ph.D.

Dr. Peek is Emeritus Professor of Wildlife Resources in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources of the University of Idaho, having retired in1999. Most of his research has been on wild ungulates, including moose, elk, mountain sheep, mountain goats, mule deer and white-tailed deer. He has also been involved in studies of gray wolves and grizzly bears.

Currently, he is working on a review of large mammalian predator management and conservation across North America for The Wildlife Society, mountain sheep habitat relationships in central Idaho, a 20-year record of plant production in central Idaho, and a history of the Lochsa Elk Herd.

Dr. Peek served on the Idaho Legislature’s Grizzly Bear Oversight Committee, the Idaho Legislature Wolf Committee, the National Academy of Sciences Committee of Forest Management in the Pacific Northwest, The Wildlife Society Grizzly Bear Management Committee, and The Wildlife Society Wolf Restoration Committee.

He also was a participant in an evaluation of grizzly bear management in British Columbia, an evaluation of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife elk management program, an evaluation of mountain sheep conservation in Great Basin National Park, and a review of gray wolf delisting proposals for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Originally on the faculty of the University of Minnesota, Dr. Peek came to the University of Idaho in 1973. He received both his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Montana State University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.