Tyler Creech Email & Phone Number

Bozeman, Mt

I help CLLC and its partners develop and apply scientific tools that inform landscape-level conservation, with a focus on preserving landscape connectivity for wildlife populations and mitigating impacts of climate change. Examples of recent projects include:• Identifying areas of greatest conflict between wildlife and vehicles in the Northern Rockies, as well as solutions that promote wildlife connectivity and human safety• Forecasting impacts of changing climatic conditions and vegetation phenology on grassland wildlife species in the southwestern U.S.• Reviewing three decades of global connectivity conservation planning efforts to identify traits that lead to successful implementation of actions to promote connectivity• Modeling connectivity for wildlife in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to allow National Forests to better incorporate ecological connectivity concerns in the forest planning process• Mapping opportunities for cross-realm conservation actions that simultaneously address terrestrial and aquatic conservation objectives• Exploring differences in ecological and sociopolitical context of presidential national monuments versus other federal protected areas

Corvallis, Oregon

• Designed and implemented a large-scale study of genetic diversity and structure, population and habitat connectivity, and climate change vulnerability of desert bighorn sheep in the southwestern U.S.• Established management priorities for promoting connectivity among bighorn sheep populations and habitat patches in the Mojave Desert using network theory• Demonstrated how remotely-sensed vegetation data can be used to predict diet quality for bighorn sheep• Developed landscape resistance models that describe how natural and anthropogenic landscape factors affect the spread of adaptive genetic diversity among bighorn populations• Characterized genetic diversity and structure, connectivity, and climate exposure of bighorn sheep populations in and near National Park Service lands to assess their relative vulnerability to climate change and suggest management actions to address threats

Bozeman, Montana

• Designed and carried out a multi-year study of Rocky Mountain elk contact behavior in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to inform management of infectious diseases• Demonstrated effectiveness of a new low-density supplemental feeding strategy for minimizing disease transmission, leading to its adoption at elk feedgrounds in Wyoming• Developed new statistical framework for analyzing animal contact data and determining environmental and individual factors influencing interaction rates• Analyzed effect of elk group size on contact rates and potential for disease transmission

Redmond, Washington

• Worked as a consultant providing a variety of environmental services for public and private clients• Performed wetland delineations and habitat assessments/field surveys for species of concern• Prepared NEPA documents (biological assessments, environmental impact statements, etc.)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Wildlife Science

DISSERTATION: Landscape-Level Approaches to Desert Bighorn Sheep Conservation in a Changing Environment Provost’s Distinguished Fellow, 2011

Master’S Degree, Biological Sciences

THESIS: Contact Rates in Ecology: Using Proximity Loggers to Explore Disease Transmission on Wyoming's Elk Feedgrounds

Bachelor’S Degree, Environmental Science

Magna cum laude Outstanding Graduating Senior, 2006 Whitmire Terrestrial Ecology Scholarship, 2006 Western Foundation Distinguished.