JODI ANN HILTY, Ph.D.
Director, North America Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society
301 North Willson Ave; Bozeman, MT 59715
tel: 406 522 9333; jhilty@wcs.org
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PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
University of California, Berkeley: Berkeley, CA
Doctor of Philosophy: Ecosystem Sciences Division of Department of Environmental,
Science, Policy, and Management
Fall 1996-Fall 2001
Middlebury College: Middlebury, VT
Bachelor of Arts: Geography major
Aug 1989-Apr 1993
RECENT APPOINTMENTS
Wildlife Conservation Society: Bozeman, MT
Director, North America Program
2007-present
Wildlife Conservation Society: Bozeman, MT
Assistant Director, North America Program
2001-2007
University of California, Berkeley: Berkeley, CA
Doctoral Candidate (’96-’01), Research Assistant (’96-’99), and Teaching Assistant (’00)
1996-2001
Wildlife Conservation Society, NYZS: New York, NY
Africa Program Assistant
1994-1996
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Getz, W., Fortmann, L., Owen-Smith, N., Hilty, J., and M. Westphal 1999. Sustaining natural and
human capital: villagers and scientists Science. 283:1855-1856.
Hilty, J.A., and A. Merenlender 2000. Faunal indicator taxa selection for monitoring ecosystem
health. Biological Conservation. 92:185-197.
Hilty, J. A., 2001. Use of riparian corridors by wildlife in the oak woodland vineyard landscape. Thesis.
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. University of California, Berkeley, 268 p.
Hilty, J., and A. Merenlender 2003. Studying biodiversity on private lands. Conservation Biology 17:132-137.
Hilty, J.A. 2004. Use of riparian corridors and vineyards by mammalian predators in Northern California.
Conservation Biology.
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SELECT PUBLICATIONS continued
Hilty, J.A., Brook, C., Heaton, E., and A.M. Merenlender 2006. Forecasting the effect of land-use change on
native and non-native mammalian predator distributions. Biodiversity and Conservation 15:2853-2871.
Hilty, J.A., Lidicker Jr., W.Z, and A.M. Merenlender 2006. Corridor Ecology: the Science and Practice of
Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation. Island Press, Washington, DC. Pp. 323.
Eric W. Sanderson, a* Kent H. Redford, a Bill Weber, a Keith Aune, b Dick Baldes, c Joel Berger, a Dave Carter, d
Charles Curtin, e James Derr, f Steve Dobrott, g Eva Fearn, a Craig Fleener, h Steve Forrest, i Craig Gerlach, j C.
Cormack Gates, k John Gross, l Peter Gogan, m Shaun Grassel, n Jodi A. Hilty, a Marv Jensen, o Kyran Kunkel, i
Duane Lammers, p Rurik List, q Karen Minkowski, a Tom Olson, r Chris Pague, s Paul B. Robertson, s and Bob
Stephensont 2008. The Ecological Future of the North American Bison: Conceiving Long-term,
Large-scale Conservation of Wildlife. Conservation Biology 22: 252-266.
Luther, D., and J.A. Hilty. 2008. Assessing the impact of local habitat variables and landscape context on
riparian birds in agricultural, urbanized, and native landscapes. Biodiversity and Conservation 17:1923–
1935.
Hilty, J.A., C. Groves 2008. Conservation Planning That Works. R.A. Knight(ed.) People and Land in a New
Century: A Blueprint for Conservation That Works. Island Press, Washington, DC.
Matthews, S.M., J.M. Higley, J.A. Hilty, and K. Wang. 2008. Culturally-based Wildlife Conservation on Native
American Lands: a Challenge of Scale and Governance. K.H. Redford and C. Grippo (eds). Protected
Areas Governance, and Scale. WCS Working Paper No. 36.
Inman, B.M., K. Aune, and J. Hilty. 2008. Yellowstone, Scale, and Wolverines: Challenges and Opportunities.
K.H. Redford and C. Grippo (eds). Protected Areas Governance, and Scale. WCS Working Paper No.
36; ISSN 1530-4426.
Carroll, C., R.F. Noss, J. Hilty, and S.C. Trombulak. 2009. Solving SCB’s Membership Crisis by
Reinvigorating the Sections: response to Schwartz et al. Conservation Biology 23: 5-6.
Heidi E. Kretser, Jodi Hilty, Michale Glennon, Jeff Burrell, Zoë Smith, and Barbara A. Knuth. 2009. Challenges
of governance and land management on the exurban/wilderness frontier in the USA. In Anderson, K,
E. Eklund, M. Lehtola, and P. Salmi, eds. Beyond the rural-urban divide. Comparative perspectives on the
differentiated countryside and its regulation.
Chester, C. and J. Hilty. 2010. Connectivity Conservation Concepts. In GL. Worboys, W.L. Francis, M.
Lockwood (eds.) Connectivity Conservation Management: A Global Guide. IUCN.
Beckmann, J.P., A.P. Clevenger, M.P. Huijser, and J.A. Hilty (eds). 2010. Safe Passages: Highways, Wildlife,
and Habitat Connectivity. Island Press, Washington, DC.
Norton, Richard; Merenlender, Adina; Newburn, David; Berke, Philip; Hilty, Jodi; Theobald, David; Brody,
Samuel; Noss, Reed. Subitted 2010. Closing the knowledge-findings-implementation gap: Interdisciplinary
research on coupling conservation biology and land-use planning. Conservation Letters.
SYNGERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
 Postdoc co-advisor for David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellows Postdoc 2010-2012 Sarah Reed
will complete a project titled, "Can conservation development conserve wildlife habitat connectivity?"
 Current Board Service: Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative and North America Section of SCB,
exofficio on WCS Canada board
 Recent Lectures: Invited Keynote lectures: Greater Yellowstone Coalition Annual meeting (2008); Greater
Yellowstone Coalition Coordinating Committee (2008); Two Countries One Forest Annual meeting (2008);
University of Montana (2008); National Wildlife Federation (2008); USFS Fort Collins (2009);
 Other Recent Service: regular manuscript reviews for a variety of professional journals; graduate committee
at Montana State University for Meredith Rainey (2009-current)
COLLABORATORS AND OTHER AFFILIATIONS
 Academic collaborators: Adina Merenlender (UCB), David Theobald (CSU), Phil Berke (UNC), David
Newburn (TAMU), Richard Norton (UMich); Charles Chester (Brandeis U.); Non-academic include colleagues
at: Environmental Law Institute; The Nature Conservancy, Yellowstone to Yukon; The Wilderness Society,
National Parks Conservation Association, The Wildlife Conservation Society
 Dissertation advisors: Adina Merenlender (Major), William Lidicker (minor), Dale McCullough (minor), Mary
Power (minor)