Gayle Joslin interview.

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: OH-2340

Staff Only

Content Description

Gayle Joslin interview (2017) Interviewed by Brain Shovers on November 3, 2017 in Helena, MT. Topics covered include attending the Montana State University Wildlife Management program in the early 1970's as the only woman in the entire program. Her work as the first female biologist for the Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks beginning in 1977. Her work monitoring grizzly bears and mountain goats in the Kootenai National Forest and Rocky Mountain Front as well as other projects in the Sun River Game Range, Bob Marshall and Scapegoat wildernesses, and MacDonald Pass. She also discusses how she believed climate change has affected wildlife patterns in Montana.

Dates

Creation: 2017 November 3

Creator

Joslin, Gayle (Narrator, Person)

Biographical / Historical

Gayle Joslin was born in Helena, MT in April 1951. Her father was a big game guide and she accompanied him into the backcountry often. In the early 1970's she enrolled in MSU to study wildlife management. She was the only female in the program. In 1977 she began working for Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks (at the time it was Montana Fish and Game) as a biologist. Over the years she was involved in projects assessing impacts of animals from oil and gas exploration on the Sun River Game Range and studying what might happen to songbirds and bighorn sheep if Kootenai Falls was dammed. In 2007 she retired from FWP to spend more time with her family, including renouwed ethical hunting author Jim Posewitz.