ECONOMY/TOURISM:
NORMAN BISHOP

Mr. Bishop worked 36 years for the National Park Service, from 1980 to 1997 in Yellowstone National Park, and previously in Rocky Mountain, Death Valley, Yosemite and Mount Rainier National Parks, and in the Southeast Regional Office. He retired in 1997 and lives in Bozeman, Montana.

From 1985 to 1997, Norm led and supported wolf restoration interpretation in Yellowstone. He was a reviewer of the 1990 and 1992 reports to Congress, “Wolves for Yellowstone?” and contributed to the 1994 Environmental Impact Statement, “The Reintroduction of Gray Wolves to Yellowstone National Park and Central Idaho.”

Through 2005, he led several dozen seminars on Yellowstone wolves for the Yellowstone Association Institute, the Teton Science School and the International Wolf Center, where he is the Yellowstone region field representative. He is a board member of the Wolf Recovery Foundation, and of Wild Things Unlimited, and co-chair of the Gallatin-Park County Chapter of Montana Conservation Voters.

For his wolf education work, Mr. Bishop received the National Park and Conservation Association’s Stephen Mather Award, and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition’s Stewardship Award. Mr. Bishop graduated from the University of Denver with a degree in biology, then served four years as a naval aviator before returning to Colorado State University for graduate studies in forest recreation and wildlife management. He is the co-author of “Yellowstone’s Northern Range: Complexity and Change in a Wildland Ecosystem,” published by Yellowstone National Park.