Aimee Hurt

Aimee Hurt, Co-founder and Associate Director, received a B.A. from University of Montana in biology, where her studies emphasized zoology, ecology, and entomology and she received a fellowship and endowment for studying the ability of dogs to differentiate the scats of two closely related species (black bears and grizzly bears). Aimee has worked with conservation dogs since 1998 and is passionate about training, field work and dog rescue. Her professional interests include understanding the potential and limitations of canine olfaction, perfecting laboratory discrimination experiments on various scents and ensuring that dog/handler teams in this field of detection remain highly trained, consistent tools.