John F. Organ is Chief of Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration for the Northeast Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He and his staff work directly with the 13 northeast states on implementation of the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration, Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration, State Wildlife Grants, and Endangered Species Recovery programs. John is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Wildlife Conservation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he received his Ph.D. in wildlife biology.

He is a Certified Wildlife Biologist® and a Fellow of The Wildlife Society. He is currently supervising a Ph.D. student studying spotted-necked otters in Tanzania and an M.S. student studying the role of black bear predation in the decline of woodland caribou on the island of Newfoundland. He is also co-principal investigator of the Maine Lynx Study, a long-term cooperative field research effort between the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He is a member of The Wildlife Society, American Society of Mammalogists, Society for Conservation Biology, the IUCN Otter Specialist and Sustainable Use Groups, and a life-member of the International Hunter Education Association. He served as president of The Wildlife Society from 2006 to 2007. John is also a Master Instructor in the Massachusetts Hunter Education Program, where he teaches Basic Hunter Education, Trapper Education, Bowhunter Education, and Waterfowl Identification and Hunting.

John lives on a 162- acre farm in the northern Berkshires of Massachusetts where for the past 18 years he has conducted land management for white-tailed deer, grassland birds, interior forest birds, black bear, ruffed grouse, fisher, bobcat, wild turkey and woodcock. He hunts deer, woodcock, grouse, turkey and occasionally bear on his property with bow, shotgun, rifle, and black powder muzzleloader, in addition to occasionally hunting elk, waterfowl, and other critters in different parts of North America. He feels most alive when hunting white-tails with a bow.