Scott McCorquodale spent forty years as a professional wildlife biologist, nearly all of it in Washington state. He has B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Montana and an M.S. degree from the University of Washington. He did field research on grizzly and black bears, mule deer, black-tailed deer, Rocky Mountain and Roosevelt elk, and moose, working in both government agency and Native American wildlife program contexts. He has published more than twenty-five peer-reviewed scientific papers, several book chapters, numerous agency reports, and several popular magazine articles.