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	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}TVD1.jpg" style="width: 188px; height: 250px; float: right;" />Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology, <a href="{filedir_11}courses/faculty_and_fellows/#Dr.%20Tim%20VanDeelen">Tim Van Deelen</a> is known throughout the scientific community as an expert on deer and wolf ecology and wolf-deer interactions in the United States Upper Midwest, and the ecology of exploited species. Receiving his Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Biology from Calvin College (Michigan), and an MS in Wildlife Biology from the University of Montana before completing his PhD in Wildlife Ecology from Michigan State University, Tim served as a Natural Resource Scientist for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and as a Forest Wildlife Ecologist for the Illinois Natural History Survey before assuming his present position at UW-Madison. Expert in both experimental field studies, applied conservation and theoretical modeling of predator-prey interactions, Tim&rsquo;s work has appeared in such publications as <em>Journal of Wildlife Management, Human Dimensions of Wildlife, Ecological Modeling</em>, and <em>Landscape Ecology</em>, and he is a co-editor of the recent book, <em>Recovery of Gray Wolves in the Great Lakes Region of the United States </em>(Springer 2009).&nbsp;</p>
