Claire Musser

Claire Musser is a filmmaker, environmental photographer, and executive director of the Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project. Her doctoral research explores peaceful coexistence between humans and wild carnivores through collaborative visual storytelling. The documentary “Bears in Hot Tubs” was created and co-directed with Maddie Bear, an American black bear living in Monrovia, California, whose presence and participation shaped the film. Claire’s work also includes wolf coexistence projects in the western United States and a forthcoming book chapter: “Beyond Coexistence: Peaceful Coexistence with Wolves in the Anthropocene: The Onion Creek Pack and the Legacy of Wolf Persecution” (Exeter University Press, 2026).