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L. David Mech Biography
David Mech is a Senior Scientist for the Biological Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul. He has a B.S. degree from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from Purdue University. He has studied wolves and their prey full time since 1958 and has published 6 books and numerous scientific and popular articles about them.
Dave has been studying wolves and deer in northeastern Minnesota since 1968, and wolves and caribou in Denali National Park, Alaska since 1986. He has lived each summer since 1986 with a pack of wolves in the High Arctic to study their behavioural interactions and their predation on musk-oxen and arctic hares. He has chaired the IUCN Wolf Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union since 1978 and is the founder and vice chair of the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota.
