Dyanne Singler, Land Stewardship Manager, Boulder, CO
Singler works on issues facing wildlife on public and tribal lands. She has been active in wolf conservation in the West, serving as an author on Colorado’s wolf plan. Singler was previously a member of the Florida Panther Recovery Team with the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, director of the wildlife center at The Conservancy of Southwest Florida and research technician for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource and University of Wisconsin Veterinary School studying the effects of canine parvovirus and canine distemper on gray wolves. Singler earned her degree in zoology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and is currently pursuing a master of public administration from the University of Colorado at Denver.
Dr. Steve Torbit, Regional Executive Director, Boulder, CO
Torbit is trained as an ungulate nutritional ecologist, wildlife physiologist and disease ecologist. His areas of expertise include agriculture and energy impacts on wildlife, particularly in the intermountain West. His research subjects have included mule deer, elk, pronghorn and bighorn sheep. He ran the black-footed ferret program for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and also has worked for wildlife agencies in Wyoming and Colorado. Torbit holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, a master’s degree in zoology and a doctorate in wildlife biology from Colorado State University.
