Peary caribou and barren-ground caribou COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 18
Biographical Summary of the Report Writer
Lee Harding has a B.Sc. in Wildlife Management from Humboldt State University (California) and a Ph.D. from Gifu University (Japan). He is a Registered Professional Biologist (R.P.Bio.), and is a member of the College of Applied Biology in British Columbia, The Wildlife Society, and the Columbia Mountains Institute of Applied Ecology. As a consultant during 1972-1976, he studied wildlife ecology in forest and tundra ecosystems. He studied caribou in relation to a proposed international gas pipeline in Alberta, Northwest Territories (N.W.T.) and Yukon; in relation to proposed natural gas production facilities in the Mackenzie Delta, N.W.T.; and in relation to seismic exploration on Bathurst, Melville, and other islands in what is now Nunavut. During that time he worked with many Inuit from communities along the Beaufort Sea coast and in the High Arctic. He spent the fall and winter of 1974-1975 in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, together with Inuit observers from Resolute Bay, surveying caribou and muskoxen populations and observing their responses to seismic activity. In 1976 he joined Environment Canada as a senior environmental design biologist in Alberta, moving to positions as a science program manager in the Northwest Territories (1977-1980) and finally British Columbia. In 1997 he retired from the Canadian Wildlife Service, where he headed sections responsible for wildlife toxicology, ecosystem planning and land claims negotiations, to return to consulting full time. Since taking early retirement from government, Dr. Harding has led approximately 50 environmental science projects in Canada, Europe, Asia and the Middle East for governments, intergovernmental organizations and private industry.
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