Andre

John Andre grew up on a farm near Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Upon graduating from Wake Forest University with a degree in marketing and economics, he worked as a commercial rose grower until he was 38 years old. Always an avid outdoorsman and lover of wildlife, John left the family greenhouse business and moved, with his wife and children, to Dubois, Wyoming. There he started Shoshone Wilderness Adventures, a hunting and fishing consulting firm. He later expanded that business, owning outfitting...See more

John Andre grew up on a farm near Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Upon graduating from Wake Forest University with a degree in marketing and economics, he worked as a commercial rose grower until he was 38 years old. Always an avid outdoorsman and lover of wildlife, John left the family greenhouse business and moved, with his wife and children, to Dubois, Wyoming. There he started Shoshone Wilderness Adventures, a hunting and fishing consulting firm. He later expanded that business, owning outfitting companies in the Northwest Territories of Canada, Saskatchewan, and Montana. As a hunting consultant, John evaluated wildlife populations around the world: their population trends, bull to cow ratios, age structure, genetics, and predation issues. With the introduction of wolves near his home into Yellowstone Park, John correctly predicted the demise of the game populations in the northern Rockies, should the wolf populations go uncontrolled. This book was, originally, going to be about the damage the wolves were causing the economies of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. However, as his research into the Endangered Species Act of 1973 progressed, and the United States economy slipped deeper and deeper into recession, it became clear to him that the Endangered Species Act of 1973 was causing huge nationwide economic issues. Having personally lost two corporations in Canada to an out-of-control Environmental Movement, John felt it important to warn his countrymen of the dangers facing their freedoms here in the United States. See less