Editorial Staff and Contacts

The Editorial Staff for the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management and North American Fauna consists of members from the Service, as well as other agencies and institutions and consists of the following: System Administrator, Managing Editor, Editor-in-Chief, Editorial Board Members (Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management only), Subject Editors, and Reviewers. Please review the information provided throughout this website and within the online manuscript submission sites for answers to your questions, if necessary, contact the appropriate Editorial Staff. Please use discretion and refine your questions before contacting the appropriate individuals below - most are volunteers and their editorial duties are collateral with their primary duties.

System Administrator
Managing Editor
Editor-In-Chief
Editorial Board Members
Subject Editors
Reviewers

System Administrator
The System Administrator is the main point of contact to assist authors, reviewers and editors to ensure the efficient movement of manuscripts through the AllenTrack peer review system and final production process.

Anne Post
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
National Conservation Training Center
Conservation Library
698 Conservation Way
Shepherdstown, WV 25443

Managing Editor
The Managing Editor works for Allen Press and will facilitate the peer-review process and production, and can assist you in a variety of ways, including submission status, issues with authors, reviewers, or editors, issues with files in a submission, accepted articles in file preparation, copyediting, style sheets, typesetting, proofs, and editor/author corrections.

Lindsey Buscher
Allen Press, Inc.
810 East 10th Street
Lawrence, KS 66044

Editor-In-Chief
Each journal will be managed by an Editor-in-Chief, who has ultimate responsibility for content and function. Their main role is to make final decisions on the disposition of manuscripts based on the reviews and comments of the Reviewers, and the summary recommendation of the Subject Editor.

Dr. John K. Wenburg, Editor-In-Chief
Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Conservation Genetics Laboratory
1011 E. Tudor Rd.
Anchorage, AK 99503

Dr. Paul Flint, Editor-In-Chief
North American Fauna
Alaska Science Center - USGS
4210 University Drive
Anchorage, Alaska 99508

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Editorial Board Members
The Editorial Board Members (Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management only) are the primary Regional contacts for the Service. They were primarily responsible for recruiting Subject Editors from across many geographic areas and specialties and will act as a first stage filter for the quality and appropriateness of manuscripts, assign appropriate Subject Editors to manuscripts and serve as a Regional contact for authors, Reviewers and Subject Editors. As of May 2012, Editorial Board Members are:

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Subject Editors
Subject Editors serve a key role in the peer review process and the wide variety of papers published in the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management and North American Fauna requires a large and diverse cadre of over 100 experts from many fields across many agencies, organizations, and academic institutions. They function to uphold the standards of Service journals through the coordination of the peer review of manuscripts and by making summary recommendations to the Editor-In-Chief, based on the reviews they have received and their assessment of the manuscript.

The identity of specific Subject Editors is not revealed to authors, except when requested by the Subject Editor, but the names of all Subject Editors and reviewers that contribute each year are published annually in way of thanks and recognition for their contributions.

Reviewers
Reviewers are the backbone of the peer review system and perform the bulk of the heavy lifting in the publication process. The success of peer review relies on a community of experts able to carry out impartial reviews of manuscripts. A list of reviewer names will be published annually in the journal to recognize their contribution. Reviewers are recruited from within the Service, as well as other agencies and organizations. Reviewers can volunteer their services by signing up on the online submission sites for the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management and North American Fauna.

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