Denise Peterson presents "Stories from Lion Country"

Join us for a presentation featuring Denise Peterson, a wildlife filmmaker and Founder of Utah Mountain Lion Conservation. She will share "Stories from Lion Country" on Thursday, June 4 at the Bears Ears Education Center. 

Denise is the founder of Utah Mountain Lion Conservation, an initiative dedicated to increasing social tolerance of mountain lions through education, collaboration, community engagement, and research. She studied Natural Resources Management, Wildlife Biology, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at Grand Valley State in Allendale, Michigan. She's worked on a wild felid study in the Peruvian Amazon evaluating wild cat interactions with prey species and the Central Region Cougar Study in Utah. Her work experience includes the Mountain Lion Foundation, Yellowstone to Uintas Connection, and Voices of Wildlife. She is also an experienced wildlife cinematographer, having worked on natural history films such as  "The American Southwest" and others that are still currently in production.

She's passionate about mountain lions and their continued existence wherever they are found. You can often find her in the mountains checking trail cams and tracking cats.