Posts by Paula MacKay

Paula is a freelance writer/editor, field biologist, and communications consultant for conservation. For the past two decades, she has studied wild predators with her husband, Dr. Robert Long. Paula served as managing editor for Noninvasive Survey Methods for Carnivores, and earned an MFA in creative writing from Pacific Lutheran University in 2015. She has written for numerous nonprofits, books, journals, and magazines — including Wild Hope, Washington Trails, The Bark, E Magazine, Wild Earth, and Wildlife Conservation. MacKay currently manages Wildlands Network’s blog Trusting Wildness, and is writing a conservation memoir about searching for wolverines and grizzly bears in the North Cascades.