August 14, 2019
Dr. John D. Wehausen is an applied population ecologist who has studied bighorn sheep populations in California since 1974, beginning with his Ph.D. dissertation work in the Sierra Nevada. In addition to working in the Sierra, he has studied bighorn sheep populations in the White and Inyo Mountains, and in the eastern Mojave Desert. His studies have had a strong conservation orientation. Dr. Wehausen helped found the Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Foundation in 1995, and has served as the foundation’s president throughout its history. In 2012, he retired as an associate research scientist with the University of California’s White Mountain Research Station, but continues to work full-time on bighorn sheep conservation issues in California.