Kurt ALT

Biography

Kurt Alt is the Wild Sheep Foundation Conservation Director for Montana and International wild sheep and goat programs. He holds a Masters of Science degree in Fish and Wildlife Management from Montana State University. His expertise is science-based habitat and species conservation and restoration. He has 45+ years of experience developing research initiatives, implementing management actions and informing policy development that conserves habitat and wildlife. He works with policy makers, communities, hunter conservationists, non-hunting interests, and the community of wild professionals and conservationists to conserve wildlife on landscapes where people live, work and recreate. His conservation perspectives draw from his career in Montana, manager-to-manager exchanges with professionals on 5 continents, past president of the Northwest Section of TWS, seminars and lectures at Universities in NA and Europe and furthering conservation efforts for wild sheep and goats and their habitats in NA and Central Asia. I currently have 5 active wild sheep restoration efforts in Montana. Implementing the WSF Central Asia Caprinae Conservation Initiative. Actively working with Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, directing money directly to wild sheep and goat conservation and involving local communities.

Speaking at

Preventing Predicaments with Paws and Pedals

Oct 10 2025 (12:00 - 12:30)

Room: Human-Centred Conservation Pavilion
Preventing Predicaments with Paws and Pedals
Panel on Balancing Risk and Wellbeing: Making Room for People and Wildlife.

Oct 10 2025 (14:00 - 14:45)

Room: Human-Centred Conservation Pavilion
Panel on Balancing Risk and Wellbeing: Making Room for People and Wildlife.
Financing Coexistence: Innovative Conservation Economies in Action

Oct 12 2025 (12:00 - 12:45)

Room: Human-Centred Conservation Pavilion
Financing Coexistence: Innovative Conservation Economies in Action
Panel on Stewardship or Control? Rethinking Conservation at Scale

Oct 13 2025 (14:00 - 15:00)

Room: Human-Centred Conservation Pavilion
Panel on Stewardship or Control? Rethinking Conservation at Scale