Regional network
Local connections across the Americas.
WFA Regional Representatives build professional connections with researchers, conservationists, educators, managers and others working with wild felids in their state, province, region or country. They share biannual regional summaries and recruit contributors for more in-depth articles in The Wild Felid Monitor.
The representative role
Connect people, research and regional knowledge.
Gather information
Network with professionals and organizations to gather, analyze, condense and summarize science-based information about wild felid status, management actions and threats to wild felids and their essential habitats.
Share regional updates
Provide biannual summaries of current events for The Wild Felid Monitor and encourage researchers and practitioners to contribute more detailed articles.
Represent WFA
Communicate objectively, maintain high ethical standards, coordinate with the appropriate Latin American or North American coordinator and meet publication deadlines.
Regional leadership
WFA Regional and Student Representative Coordinators
North American Coordinator
Tyler Brasington
Read Tyler’s biography
Tyler Brasington is a bear biologist and large carnivore conflict specialist, currently residing in South Lake Tahoe, California. He recently joined the Stewart Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Lab at the University of Nevada, Reno as a Ph.D. student studying American black bear (Ursus americanus) health in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Tyler previously served as a Lead Park Ranger for the Wildlife | Bear Management Program in Grand Teton National Park. He has served on professional details as a Grizzly Bear Conflict Specialist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Grizzly Bear Recovery Program and assisted with Grand Teton National Park’s Elk Reduction Program. During the mountain winter season, Tyler served as an emergency medical technician, firefighter and search and rescue technician for the Division of Visitor and Resource Protection in Grand Teton National Park. Tyler’s fieldwork has generally involved responding to human-wildlife conflicts, specifically with bears. His current research interests include infectious diseases, wildlife health and physiology, dental and oral pathology of large carnivores, wildlife biology, spatial ecology and strategies to reduce human-wildlife conflict.
Regional directory
WFA Regional Representatives
Southwest USA
Emily Mitchel[email protected]
Western Canada
Sara Jordan-McLachlan[email protected]
Read Sara’s biography
Sara Jordan-McLachlan is a wildlife biologist based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. After earning her BSc in Zoology from the University of Calgary in 2006, she worked on the Central East Slopes Cougar Study in western Alberta and later contributed to other carnivore studies in the Rockies and Cascade mountains. Following work in wildlife rehabilitation and animal welfare, she turned her focus to urban wildlife and how animals navigate and coexist in urban landscapes. Sara now works for the Miistakis Institute for the Rockies on Calgary Connect, a long-term remote-camera study of wildlife presence and ecological connectivity. Data from the study supported her MSc in Environmental Practice, focused on bobcat distribution in Calgary. She is also a naturalist with the Weaselhead/Glenmore Park Preservation Society, a former member of Calgary’s BiodiverCity Advisory Committee, a current member of its Climate Advisory Committee and President of the Alberta Native Plant Council.
Midwest USA
Suzie Prange[email protected]
Student network
Meet the representatives helping students connect with WFA.
Student representatives share opportunities, strengthen regional connections and help students participate in the association.
Student representatives
Find a representative in your area.
Arizona
- Marianela Velilla[email protected]
California
- John Morgan[email protected]
- Ishana Shukla[email protected]
Florida
- Zachary Wardle[email protected]
Nevada
- Tyler Brasington[email protected]
Texas
- Chloe Nouzille[email protected]
Get involved
Interested in becoming a Regional Representative?
Representatives should be current WFA members, or become members, and commit to serving for at least one continuous year, preferably longer.
- Be actively involved in wild felid research, management or conservation.
- Have a strong natural-resources and scientific background.
- Be able to communicate and network with professionals, WFA representatives, organizations and groups.
- Remain unbiased and take responsibility for information submitted for publication.
- Respond to the regional coordinator and meet newsletter deadlines.