David Parsons is a Board member of Project Coyote and vice-chairman and a science fellow of The Rewilding Institute (a conservation think tank) and is the Institute’s Carnivore Conservation Biologist. Dave serves on several regional steering/advisory committees for organizations and coalitions advocating for wolf recovery and landscape-scale conservation in the Southwest. Dave’s interests include the ecology and conservation of large carnivores, protection and conservation of biodiversity, and wildlands conservation. Dave is retired from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service where from 1990-1999 he led the Service’s effort to reintroduce the endangered Mexican gray wolf to portions of its former range in Arizona and New Mexico.