Hilary Byerly Flint is a senior research scientist at the University of Wyoming. Hilary is trained as a behavioral scientist and studies how people manage and value the environment—particularly the public benefits, like biodiversity conservation and risk mitigation, supplied by private lands. She is an expert in conducting field experiments and designing surveys, and has worked with federal agencies, local governments, and nonprofits to inform and evaluate environmental programs and policies. She is currently leading a multi-year project focused on incentivizing large landscape conservation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and is a founding member of the Beyond Yellowstone Program. Hilary was awarded the first-ever Gund Graduate Fellowship in 2015 and earned her PhD from the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont in 2019.