Justin Lichter aka Trauma www.justinlichter.com

I grew up about an hour north of NewYork City and have since lived in Santa Barbara, CA, southern VT, Dillon, CO, and I am currently living in Truckee, CA. When not hiking, I am a ski patroller and enjoy backcountry skiing, nordic skiing, snowshoeing, mountain biking, and pretty much anything else relaxing. Since 2002, I have hiked over 20,000 miles. In 2002 doing a cross-country map and compass trip through the canyon country of southern utah, in 2003 hiking from Georgia to Cap Gaspe, Quebec following the Appalachian Trail and International AT, 2004 hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada and then the Pacific Northwest Trail to the Washington coast, 2005 the Continental Divide Trail from Mexico to Canada then continuing on the Great Divide Trail from the Canadian border up into northern Alberta, 11/1/05 to 10/23/06 completing the Eastern Continental Trail (cap gaspe, qc to key west, florida, incorporating the AT), Pacific Crest Trail, and Continental Divide Trail in under a year, a total of over 10,000 miles, and in 2007 a traverse of the Southern Alps and the south island of New Zealand.

Deia Schlosberg & Gregg Treinish www.connectingthegems.org

During the summer of 2010, we will team up with the Greater Yellowstone Coalition (GYC), the Craighead Environmental Research Institute (CERI), and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), to help ensure the unimpeded movement between Yellowstone National Park and the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness area. By traveling through the region on foot, from the point of view of the wildlife, we hope to gain a unique understanding of the conditions and threats to key habitats, presence of various species, current management practices, and perspectives of the local people. We will be collecting data about the choices that moving animals are forced to make and the hazards they face, while we trek through some of the most remote and rugged mountains in the lower 48 states. By documenting specific instances of fragmentation, GYC, CERI, WCS, and other agencies working to promote and protect these areas, we will have the information they need to ensure that future generations have the ability to experience these charismatic megafauna, which we are lucky enough to share our wild spaces with today. We expect that the trek will be about 450 miles in length and take about two months to complete. We will be following the most likely routes that wolverines and grizzly bears would take through the area, and are bound to encounter several wildlife species along the way.