Kelly Dunning is the Timberline Endowed Chair and Director of the Wildlife & Wilderness Recreation Lab at the University of Wyoming, where she studies how science, politics, and public values shape wildlife conservation and policy. Trained at MIT and the University of Oxford, she has worked with wildlife agencies, policymakers, and communities across the United States and internationally and is the author of two previous books on conservation governance.

Temple Stoellinger is a Professor and Wyoming Excellence Chair at the University of Wyoming with a dual appointment in the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources and the College of Law. Her scholarship explores timely approaches for decision-making around wildlife, public lands, energy, and other valued natural resources at the regional, national, and international levels.

John Koprowski is Dean and Wyoming Excellence Chair at the University of Wyoming's Haub School of Environment & Natural Resources. His research focuses on community-based conservation of wildlife in the USA and around the world.