Lindsey Sanders

Originally from California, Lindsey received her B.S. from UC Berkeley in Environmental Science. She has worked on a variety of wildlife projects across the western US, including researching endangered piping plovers and least terns on the Missouri River, American pika habitat use in Wyoming’s Wind River range, Sierra Nevada red fox population distribution, and woodpecker habitat selection in burned forests of northern California.

Lindsey is broadly interested in how anthropogenic habitat changes affect wildlife population dynamics and species interactions. She received her M.S. at the University of Wyoming in 2017, researching predator-prey interactions between sagebrush-obligate songbirds and their nest predators on natural gas fields. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Idaho, based in the Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Her dissertation research focuses on identifying how sage grouse respond to livestock grazing, and investigating the specific mechanisms that may be driving that response.

Affiliation: Courtney Conway Lab, Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit