Ed Bangs

Edward E. Bangs is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Gray Wolf Recovery Coordinator for the northwestern U.S. and is stationed in Helena, Montana. He received a B.S. degree in game management from Utah State University in 1974 and a Master of Science degree in wildlife management from University of Nevada in 1979. From 1975 until 1988 he was a wildlife biologist on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

Ed has been involved with the recovery and management of wolves in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming and other western States since 1988. He is currently the Wolf Recovery Coordinator for the Western United States and administers a complex federal, state, tribal, and private organization program that monitors the expanding wolf population, conducts a diverse array of non-lethal and lethal wolf control, initiates and funds a wide variety of research projects, and conducts an extensive information and education program. He has published a wide variety of popular and scientific issues dealing with various aspects of wolf ecology and management.

His professional interests focus on human values in wildlife management, conflict resolution, and restoration of ecological processes. His personal interests include his two daughters, the arts, food, wine, bow hunting and travel.