Wildlife and Wildlife Conservation

Christopher Chizinski is an associate professor of Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Originally from northwestern Connecticut, he received a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Science at the University of Connecticut and then an M.S. and Ph.D. in Fisheries Sciences from Texas Tech University. His research examines the interplay of humans and wildlife that provides information to aid and inform conservation and management decisions. Some recent projects that he and his lab have been working on are motivations and barriers to hunting, satisfaction with the hunting experience, modeling hunter behavior, community-based conservation in watersheds, and motivations and sustainable behavior of foragers in the Great Plains.

Raymond Hames is an evolutionary anthropologist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His field research, supported by the National Science Foundation and the LSB Leakey Foundations, focusses on the native peoples of the Venezuelan Amazon (Yanomamö & Ye’kwana). His research topics include behavioral ecology -- an evolutionary approach to behavior -- along with marriage, wildlife conservation, food and labor exchanges, warfare and alloparental care, where individuals other than biological parents care for offspring. (Updated March 2025)