Backed by a Boone and Crockett Club University Programs fellowship, Jamshid Parchizadeh traveled from the bustling streets of Tehran to the rugged coast of Alaska, driven by a singular mission: to serve wildlife through science.

For Parchizadeh, the road to becoming a wildlife biologist was anything but a straight line.

The Boone and Crockett Club commends today’s action by the Senate Agriculture Committee to pass the Fix Our Forests Act (S.1462), introduced by Sens. John Curtis (R-UT), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Tim Sheehy (R-MT), and Alex Padilla (D-CA), by a bipartisan vote of 18-5. The following is a statement by Boone and Crockett Club chief executive officer Tony A. Schoonen.

Throughout its 134-year history, much of what the Boone and Crockett Club has been able to accomplish has been the result of strategic partnerships. These partnerships have spanned across state and federal wildlife and land agencies, legislators and policy makers, other non-governmental hunter-conservationist organizations, universities, and business and industry. Trailblazers in Conservation…

North American sheep are divided into two species: Ovis dalli (thin-horned) and Ovis canadensis (big-horned). These two categories are further broken down into the four categories recognized by the Boone and Crockett Club.