Avery Shawler
Avery is the Working Wild Challenge Coordinator at Western Landowners Alliance. She is an interdisciplinary scientist with expertise in wildlife conflict on working landscapes. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon with her partner and two rescue dogs.
Can range riding help ranchers live with wolves?
As wolves and grizzly bears continue to recover across the American West, livestock producers are navigating renewed challenges of sharing the landscape with large carnivores. Among the carnivore-livestock conflict reduction
Wolves on the doorstep test sheep ranchers in small town Oregon
The 200 residents of Lostine, Oregon, never expected their small town to become a hotspot for wolf conflict. Surrounded by farm fields and with no recent history of wolf conflict,
Neighbors helping neighbors: ranchers band together to fight wildfires in eastern Oregon
“I’ve got 5 volunteers moving my cows this morning - only 2 of them are related,” texted rancher and WLA contractor Kim Kerns, who runs cattle and sheep in Baker