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My name is Dorothy Keeler. You might be wondering why would I create this web site. I have lived in Anchorage, Alaska since 1976, and have been a professional wildlife photographer since 1989. In 2005, we moved to Emigrant, Montana, which is 30 minutes from Yellowstone. My husband, Leo, and I specialize in working with the McNeil River, Denali National Park, and Katmai bears as well as the wild wolves of Denali National Park. Please make no mistake, we am not against hunting. My husband is a hunter, and our freezer is full of caribou, and occasionally, moose.

We have served as wildlife consultants for several filmmakers in Denali National Park and been featured on "Men's Journal," produced for ESPN, "Living Dangerously," produced for BBC, and "World's Best: Place to Walk on the Wild Side - Alaska," produced for the Travel Channel.

We were leaders of the private, non-profit group Friends of McNeil River for 10 years, dedicated to protecting the world famous McNeil River brown bears. We were instrumental in establishing the 119,000-acre McNeil River Refuge. In 1995 we were featured on CBS News' "Eye on America" with John Blackstone twice when we led a drive to thwart a bear hunt in the refuge by encouraging people to apply for a permit and stay home if their names were drawn. It worked. Six of the eight permits were awarded to people who had applied for a hunting license to save the bears' lives. We later led the effort that closed the refuge to brown bear hunting.

We are currently are working in partnership with The Alaska Wildlife Alliance to protect the famed Toklat wolf pack in Denali National Park. (Click Here to see why they are so special.) On November 2, 1999, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather featured us and the Toklat wolves in a special segment of "Eye on America." If you'd like to see it Click Here.

The Alaska Outdoor Council, a local representative of the National Rifle Association, has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying in Alaska to promote the interests of hunters and trappers to the detriment of all other users. Hunters and trappers monopolize the memberships of the Advisory Committees and the Alaska Board of Game by such wide margins that even token non-consumptive members have no representation nor voice.