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Julie K. Young

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Scientist. Associate Professor & Institute Director. I research wildlife ecology & animal behavior, primarily studying carnivores, their prey, & beavers to reduce conflicts and increase coexistence | she, her https://drjuliekyoung.weebly.com

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Nov 19

Thanks, new followers! 😍 I mainly study human-carnivore conflicts. Starting a 'bluedive' 🧵 on my research. Starting with an oldie because many things we learned are still very true today (especially about misinformation & having a voice). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Human–Carnivore Interactions: Lessons Learned from Communities in the American West

Types, causes, and intensity of human–carnivore interactions are related to historical context, management policy, and human perception. We used four rural communities in the American West with var...

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · 9d

Fun to be a tiny part (cougar & coyote data from Utah) of this research by Fagan & team! 🐱🐺🧪
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Wild canids and felids differ in their reliance on reused travel routeways | PNAS

Diverse factors, including environmental features and cognitive processes, can drive animals’ movements and space use, with far-reaching implicatio...

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · 12d

🚨Great job with great people in Alaska 🐺🦌🧪

We are recruiting for a wildlife biologist to support our predator-prey program in Southeast Alaska. This application is now open. This is a great career starting point with room for growth in this field.

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · 21d

Graduate position (PhD or MS) available on mountain lions🐱 at USU! Check it out: drive.google.com/file/d/1CahA...

Sanchez - student - Cougar kittens - job ad.pdf

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Aug 13

Come join my lab!!! 🧪🦊🐺🐱seeking a PhD student for urban mesocarnivore research. Details at jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id... or my website: drjuliekyoung.weebly.com

PhD position - urban mesocarnivores | Natural Resources Job Board

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Aug 10

Oops, wrong tag. It's @wwdtm-podcast-bot.bsky.social

Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Aug 9

I've worked with >1 guy named Wolf(e) now...and know a kid named Fox (after his grandpa) by his dad who studied foxes. All too common, just look at bird people and they're last names 🧐

Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Aug 9

Now it made it to @npr.org on @waitwaitdonttellme.bsky.social! 🧪🐺🐮🤩

Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Aug 6

Grad student Lori McCurdy in my lab is working on reducing wolf depredation and created this clip of 'voices' for intense human sounds 😂

Intense scene from Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver’s film ‘Marriage Story’ is great for scaring away wolves, apparently share.google/mcvEDx3nN0iI...

Intense scene from Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver’s film ‘Marriage Story’ is great for scaring away wolves, apparently | CNN

A tense scene between Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in their 2019 film “Marriage Story” was great bait for 2020 Oscar voters but apparently there’s another wild species that’s not a fan.

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Aug 6

Intense scene from Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver’s film ‘Marriage Story’ is great for scaring away wolves, apparently | CNN

A tense scene between Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in their 2019 film “Marriage Story” was great bait for 2020 Oscar voters but apparently there’s another wild species that’s not a fan.

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Jul 26

I'm not certain the policies of WCC, who will be the hiring org. I suggest applying and to reach out to the contact on the advertisement to see.

Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thanks!

Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Jul 23

Nice coverage of our research about how livestock guardian dogs help in farms! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

Grizzlies Were Raiding Montana Farms. Then Came Some Formidable Dogs.

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Jul 22

We're hiring! Remote work on red wolf behavior 🐺🧪
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

Breeding Behavior Technician - Red Wolf | Natural Resources Job Board

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Jul 17

Morning panel at the Red Wolf workshop. 🧪🐺

Joe, Lovin, Emily, and Julie behind Red Wolf SAFE sign.

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Jul 9

Correct! But also that we could do better at finding livestock depredations.

Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Jul 8

New paper out: Food Subsidies Reduce Livestock Depredations by a Recovering Carnivore - Hyde - Animal Conservation - Wiley Online Library zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🐺🧪🐮

Food Subsidies Reduce Livestock Depredations by a Recovering Carnivore

Diversionary feeding—providing food caches to divert predators away from preying on livestock—is a strategy to reduce depredations by Mexican gray wolves but has not been evaluated for its effectiven...

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Jul 7

Fun to be a part of this group of urban ecologists, led by @mhmurray.bsky.social ! Here's our first publication:
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Health as an outcome and driver of human–wildlife interactions

Abstract. Human–wildlife interactions (HWIs) influence the health of humans and wildlife but a unifying framework is needed to understand the causes of HWI

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Jun 28

Meet Patches, as the cemetery staff call him.

Ref fox laying in grass at a cemetery, missing 1 eye

Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Jun 28

Fried chicken wings!

Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Jun 27

Back to urban wildlife work 🧪🦊🤞

Hanging lure in a box trap for red fox 🦊

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Jun 23

The Berryman Institute brings you the second edition of The Human-Wildlife Report - a quarterly newsletter with updates on the most recent research by our faculty & students, news & media highlights, & education and outreach events & opportunities.

Signup at: usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Issue 2 The Human-Wildlife Report | PDF to Flipbook

Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · May 29

Thanks for sharing. One correction: it's not a harness (a harness may alter wool growth?) but simply a modification to the ear tags sheep and cattle already wear. The new version of the ear tag is much more durable than the prototype we used for the research!

Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · May 28

So excited to see this come to fruition & owe a HUGE debt of gratitude to Stewart for not thinking my idea was dumb when I roped him in, Aaron for taking up the writing as part of his dissertation, all of the other co-authors, & especially the ranchers willing to work with us. It was a fun project.

Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · May 28

Our original design was primitive (I'm a biologist not an engineer!) but an engineer made a slick new design and a private company has agreed to produce them!!! 👨‍🔬🧪🐑🐺🐄

Beta design of Flashtag on domestic sheep

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · May 28

OK, not exactly but we made FlashTags for livestock and it works! 🧪🐺🐑🐄
Check out the paper here:
digitalcommons.usu.edu/hwi/vol18/is...

And footage here:

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · May 28

Anyone remember a few years ago when there were these videos of 'extreme' sheepherding with lights?!? Like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L90Z...

Well, I saw one video and immediately thought: no carnivore is going near those lit up herds, lol. Then...I thought WAIT, let's try it. 🧪🐑🐺

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