BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Charles E. Kay is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Political Science and a Senior Research Scientist with the Institute of Political Economy at Utah State University.  He received his Ph.D. in wildlife ecology from Utah State University, his M.S. in environmental studies from the University of Montana, and his B.S. in wildlife biology also from the University of Montana.  Dr. Kay has conducted ecological research for Parks Canada, the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Agricultural Research Service, and the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, among others.

Dr. Kay has co-edited a book titled Wilderness and Political Ecology: Aboriginal Influences and the Original State of Nature published by the University of Utah Press and is the author of a forthcoming book on natural resource policy issues in the Yellowstone Ecosystem titled Yellowstone: Ecological Malpractice.  Dr. Kay’s Aboriginal Overkill book is under contract to Oxford University Press.  Dr. Kay’s research has appeared in Human Nature, the Journal of Range Management, Conservation Biology, the Canadian Field-Naturalist, the Western Journal of Applied Foresty, the Wildlife Society Bulletin, and the Journal of Forestry, among others.  Dr. Kay has contributed to the books The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Humans as Components of Ecosystems; Plants and Their Environment; and  Ecology and Conservation of Wolves in a Changing World.  Dr. Kay has also published a series of papers in various scientific symposia and proceedings.  Dr. Kay’s work on Long-term Ecosystem States and Processes in the Central Canadian Rockies was recently published as an Occasional Paper by Parks Canada.