Rob Ament (M.S., Biology) is executive director of American Wildlands, a western U.S. non-profit conservation group based in Bozeman, Montana. He has over 20 years of experience in natural resource management and conservation. Mr. Ament has worked for 3 different U.S. federal land management agencies and ran his own ecological consulting service. He has been with American Wildlands for 10 years. He currently serves on the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative's board of directors.