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Skip Ambrose

Skip Ambrose grew up in Colorado and is a wildlife biologist who has been studying raptors in Alasks since the early 1970s. Starting in 1973, he focused his research on peregrine falcons along the Yukon River and within Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. He has watched the peregrine population on the upper Yukon River in Alaska climb from 12 nesting pairs in 1973 to 60 pairs in 2012. His surveys make up one of the longest-running, most consistent wildlife monitoring studies ever conducted. Skip worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from 1977 until his retirement in 2005. Since then he has worked as an independent contractor, and every summer continues to count falcons. Despite funding drying up in 2011, Skip and his wife and fellow researcher, Chris Florian, have paid for the trips out of pocket.

Skip Ambrose appears in the following new Jukebox projects:

Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve

Interview Title	Abstract	Archive #: Oral History	Project	Date of Interview
Skip Ambrose	Skip Ambrose was interviewed on December 5, 1991 by Dan O'Neill in the audio studio at Elmer E. Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Fairbanks, Alaska. At the time of this interview, Skip and Dan had been good friends for about sixteen years, having met through a mutual acquaintance, raptor biologist Robert J. (Bob) Ritchie. O'Neill and Ritchie had been friends for thirty-two years. Ritchie's name and his work with peregrine falcons on the Yukon River come up frequently in the interview. In this interview, Skip talks about his early research on peregrine falcons along the Yukon, Nation and Kandik Rivers within Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, how the birds are captured, banded and studied, the results of his research, and managing the area to best protect the falcons.	91-22-56	Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve	Dec 5, 1991