Hayes, Bob

For 20 years, Bob Hayes was the Yukon's wolf biologist. During that time he studied hundreds of radio-collared wolves and conducted several long-term wolf-prey studies. He is considered a world expert on kill rate by wolves on moose and caribou and the effects of wolf control on wolves and their prey.

His long-term research has led him to believe widespread aerial control of wolves is biologically wrong and that non-lethal methods of reducing predation is the future of wolf management.

Bob served as a Canadian member of the IUCN Wolf Specialist group for nearly a decade. He and his wif...