Yellowstone Wildlife Profiles is a small, family-owned business dedicated to sharing the amazing wonders of Yellowstone with you.
Our guides average over 10 years of experience living and working in Yellowstone – one of the most experienced guide teams in Yellowstone! We offer custom, private Yellowstone tours, curriculum-based school and university programs, in-depth seminars, guide trainings for guides throughout the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and on-site and virtual educational presentations.
Brad and Shauna each began working in Yellowstone more than 20 years ago. Shauna got her start with the Yellowstone Wolf Project in 1996 before becoming a full-time field educator in 2004, and Brad planned to spend just a few weeks teaching wolf classes with the Yellowstone Institute in 2004 before heading back home to the family dairy farm in Wisconsin. A few weeks turned into a few years, and in 2012 Carolyn joined Brad and Shauna at the Institute.
Brad and Carolyn founded Yellowstone Wildlife Profiles in 2021 with the vision to connect people to Yellowstone and to the natural world through immersive Yellowstone experiences.
We look forward to sharing Yellowstone with you!
With over 80 years of combined experience living and working in Yellowstone, our small team of naturalist guides brings a wealth of knowledge to design the perfect Yellowstone experience for you. We intentionally keep our team small in order to focus on the quality of your experience over quantity. Every Yellowstone Wildlife Profiles guide is highly-trained in natural interpretation and environmental education, experienced leading groups of all ages in Yellowstone, and ready to share this amazing place with you!
Brad grew up on a dairy farm in southwestern Wisconsin, where he spent his days outside getting to know the local flora and fauna. After teaching and serving as school principal for several years, Brad earned his M.S. in Wildlife Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, studying songbirds, raptors, and carnivores.
He then packed up his Jeep and headed to Yellowstone for a month-long stint teaching about Yellowstone’s wolves at the Yellowstone Institute. More than 20 years later, he’s still here, guiding, teaching, and filming in Yellowstone.
Brad has spent years studying and filming cougars, wolves, and wildlife behavior in and around Yellowstone National Park. More recently, he has recorded his observations and stories in his book, The Grand Lady of Yellowstone and Other Yellowstone Wolf Stories. Brad lives in Gardiner, MT, and co-owns and operates Yellowstone Wildlife Profiles, LLC.
Carolyn fell in love with Yellowstone on a family vacation more than 25 years ago, when she watched the Druid Peak wolf pack successfully hunt an elk in Lamar Valley. Since moving to the GYE in 2009, her experiences have included working as a field instructor and program manager for the Yellowstone Institute; volunteering on snow tracking surveys for the Yellowstone Cougar Project, carcass surveys with the grizzly bear research team, and raven trapping and tagging operations; and hiking and canoeing thousands of miles through the GYE backcountry.
Carolyn earned her B.S. in Outdoor Recreation Leadership and Management with emphases in ecology and cultural anthropology from Northern Michigan University, and she is a certified guide trainer through the National Association for Interpretation. Prior to college, Carolyn was an Olympic-prospect ice hockey player; she now brings that same dedication to excellence to her work as co-owner of Yellowstone Wildlife Profiles. During her free time, Carolyn enjoys exploring the GYE with her husband and two small children from their home in Gardiner, MT.
Shauna saw her first wild wolf while volunteering for the Yellowstone Wolf Project in 1996 and has been working to protect wolves and wild places ever since. For over 25 years, she has focused her career on outdoor education and wildlife conservation, including work as a biologist for the USFWS Red Wolf Recovery Program in North Carolina, forest carnivore researcher for the University of Vermont, and volunteer at Colorado-based Mission:Wolf.
Shauna has a Bachelor's in Biology and a Master’s in Science Education. She is a published author, and her educational speciality is developing nature therapy programs for disabled veterans, inner-city youth, and autistic groups. Recently, she was the editor for the Yellowstone Wolf Charts and Genealogy publications as well as launching Yellowstone Trip Planning, an online venue for visitors wanting to make the most of their time vacationing in Yellowstone. When Shauna isn’t in the field guiding or helping others plan their trips, she can be found with a scope to her eye or a book on her lap.
Angela Tempo is a naturalist and photographer who specializes in the GYE (Yellowstone National Park, Grand Tetons National Park, and surrounding public lands) and night sky photography. She graduated from Boston University with a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Social Communications, a master's in Photojournalism from the same institution, and a master's in Public Relations from Kent State University. Before moving to Yellowstone, she worked at Georgetown University in Washington DC. She also works as a First Responder with FEMA and deploys in Natural Disasters globally. In her free time, Angela likes to raft, paint, and hike with her dog. She currently lives in Gardiner, MT allowing her to immerse in this area year round.
Rob was first captivated by the grandeur of Yellowstone as a 9-year-old on a family vacation. His first memory of Yellowstone’s wildlife was watching the famed Druid Peak wolf pack hunting in Lamar Valley during the height of their reign. Over the next two decades, the pull of Yellowstone grew ever stronger as he racked up hundreds of miles exploring the trails of Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. He spent three seasons working for one of the park’s main concessionaires before relocating to Gardiner permanently, where he is now in his fourth year as a full-time guide.
Rob is passionate about sharing Yellowstone’s eminent wildlife, geology, and natural history with others. Rob is also an avid landscape and wildlife photographer with 13 years of experience behind the camera lens. He loves the challenge of capturing the raw beauty and truly wild fauna of Yellowstone in photographic form.
In addition to guiding, Rob enjoys climbing in the Tetons, backpacking throughout the GYE and beyond, and trying amazing new foods from around the globe. Rob is a Certified Interpretive Guide and Certified Wilderness First Responder. He studied Outdoor Recreation Leadership & Management at Northern Michigan University.
Jaclyn is a naturalist, educator, and facilitator who finds endless inspiration in Yellowstone’s landscapes and loves sharing that passion with others. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from the University of Delaware and spent nearly a decade as a water quality specialist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Over the years, Jaclyn has worked as a science educator in museums, classrooms, and on our public lands. She returned to school in Colorado to study outdoor education, specializing in wilderness therapy. With organizations including Outward Bound and Women’s Wilderness, Jaclyn has enjoyed leading kids and adults on backpacking, canoeing, and rock-climbing adventures.
Once Jaclyn came to Yellowstone in 2019, she fell in love with this diverse and wild ecosystem and spent the past 5+ years working as a park ranger and research coordinator with the National Park Service.
In addition to her nearly 20 years as an outdoor and environmental educator, Jaclyn is a dedicated yoga and meditation teacher, integrating mindfulness practices into her approach to learning. Jaclyn is committed to inspiring others to explore, appreciate, and protect the wild places that sustain us.
Growing up in northern Idaho, Saige cultivated a deep appreciation for wild places and built a strong foundation in backcountry knowledge and outdoor skills from an early age, immersing herself in snowboarding (recently adding splitboarding to the mix), backpacking, rock climbing, and fly fishing. She moved to the Greater Yellowstone area in 2020, and has spent countless hours exploring the park, learning its landscapes, and observing its wildlife firsthand ever since.
Whether watching wolves and bears roam Lamar Valley, taking in Yellowstone’s picturesque landscapes from far off the beaten path (or anywhere else, for that matter!), or just generally enjoying her life where the world moves slow and the bison move even slower, Saige is passionate about connecting to both others and herself within the vastness of this one-of-a-kind ecosystem.
Before becoming a guide, Saige attended EMT school and volunteered on both fire and EMS units in rural northern Idaho, gaining valuable experience in emergency response and outdoor safety. While she has since shifted away from the medical field, her experience reinforces her commitment to both preparedness and conservation in remote environments. In her spare time during the warmer months, Saige can be found alternating between the front and rower’s seat of her drift boat with her trusty canine companion, Lenny.
Anu has always been enthralled by the magic of nature and wildlife, particularly wolves. Having spent nearly a decade watching and learning about Yellowstone wolves, Anu loves sharing his enthusiasm for and knowledge of the GYE with visitors.
A lifelong outdoorsman, Anu has also worked in numerous capacities as a teacher and is an effective listener and communicator with people from various backgrounds. He considers facilitating experiences in the park that fill guests with wonder and create lifelong memories to be a great a privilege.
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