Anne Carlson, Senior Climate Adaptation Specialist, The Wilderness Society, anne_carlson@tws.org 

Anne Carlson is the Senior Climate Adaptation Specialist with the Montana office of The Wilderness Society.  There she seeks to build resilience to the current and projected impacts of our changing climate in partnership with state, federal, and provincial agencies; tribal communities; religious leaders; conservation partners and scientists; and the general public - all based on the best available science and at the scale of entire landscapes. Prior to joining The Wilderness Society in 2009, Anne spent 15 years developing research and conservation projects on numerous large and small carnivore, primate, elephant, and antelope species across sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia with her colleagues at Cambridge University and the San Diego Zoo; after earning Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She and her husband live with way too many animals in Choteau, Montana, and spend as much of their spare time as possible outdoors in Montana’s mountains and rivers hiking, camping, hunting, skiing, and wildlife-watching.