Chris Servheen, a frequent presence on the North Fork, is receiving an award for his conservation efforts. From the Friday, January 18, 2008 online edition of the Missoulian . . .

Chris Servheen, mammologist and wildlife biologist at the University of Montana and grizzly bear recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, will receive the 2008 George B. Rabb Conservation Award Jan. 29 from the Chicago Zoological Society.

The following evening Servheen will present a lecture entitled “Grizzly Conservation” at the Brookfield Zoo’s Discovery Center. The CZS manages the zoo.

Servheen is being recognized for his 30 years of significant work in grizzly bear conservation efforts centered primarily in the Misson Mountains and northwestern Montana wilderness areas.

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