John A. Vucetich

I am the fellow who records our adventures and discoveries described here in Notes from the Field.  Among the three of us, I am “the young doctor.”

I began working on the project as a college student in the early 1990s.  Since 2001, Rolf Peterson and I have been co-leading the project.

For 20 years my life has been motivated and shaped by the time he spends working on the wolf-moose project.  I may have been destined for this life… The root of my last name, Vuk, is the Croatian word for wolf.

When not living and working on Isle Royale, I travel the world sharing with others the lessons Isle Royale have for us and consult with managers about how humans relate to wolves and moose.  I also teaches university courses in Wildlife Management and Population Biology at Michigan Technological University.