Walter Medwid, former executive director of the Adirondack Mountain Club, shared his wolf reintegration presentation with the Essex Middle School sixth-grade class.
Medwid was also part of the International Wolf Center (IWC), Northern Woodlands, and other environmental organizations before retiring in 2020.
He received his degrees in biology, with an emphasis on environmental science, and ecology. He has studied wolves in Yellowstone National Park, the Northwest Territories, Minnesota, and Ellesmere Island in Canada’s High Arctic. Medwid is a co-founder of the Vermont Wildlife Coalition, serves as an advisor to Protect Our Wildlife, is a member of IWC’s Education Committee, and serves on the board of his county’s Natural Resources Conservation District.
He has spent the last 15 years attempting to influence Vermont’s wildlife management policies.
His time on Ellesmere Island living with and studying a pack of Arctic wolves, as well as his time in Hinton, Alberta, in 1995 where wolves were captured and processed prior to their reintroduction to Yellowstone and Idaho, were seminal experiences shaping Medwid’s commitment to matching today’s socio-ecological landscape with our approach to wildlife governance.