Dr. Kieran Lindsey (email)
Kieran is the founder, author and alpha-female of Next-Door Nature. She is also co-author of Urban Wildlife Management (the first textbook on the subject), editor of the Journal of Wildlife Rehabilitation, a lecturer on urban wildlife and human-wildlife interactions at Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment, and the animal-vehicle biologist and wildlife guru for NPR’s Car Talk.
Kieran’s sordid wildlife career experience also includes serving as director of a non-profit wildlife rehabilitation and education center (1997-1999, Houston, TX); member of the Board of Directors for the International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council; columnist for the Houston Chronicle newspaper (The Urban Jungle, 1998-2001); producer, writer, and host of Wild Things Radio!on KUNM-FM (1999-2001 in Albuquerque, NM); and she’s an Emmy® award-winning producer. Last but not least, she is personal assistant to a busy young wire-fox terrier named Dash.
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