Brandborg, Stewart M.

Stewart M. Brandborg was born in Lewiston, Idaho, in February of 1925. His father, Guy M. "Brandy" Brandborg, was the assistant to the forest supervisor on the Nez Perce National Forest. In 1935, the Brandborg family moved to Montana where Guy Brandborg would serve as the forest supervisor for the Bitterroot National Forest for twenty years. In 1943, Stewart Brandborg began university studies at Montana State University in Missoula (now called The University of Montana.) It was here that Stewart met his future wife, Anna Vee Mather. Brandborg graduated in 1947 with a bachelor’s of science in wildlife technologies. He and Anna Vee were married in 1949 and would later have 5 children.

In the late 1940s Brandborg conducted pioneering mountain goat research while working for the Montana Department of Fish and Game. In 1949, while studying for his Master’s degree in Forestry at The University of Idaho, he was a research fellow at the Idaho Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit. Upon graduation (1951), Brandborg conducted research and management investigations on the mountain goat, elk, and other big game species with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, where he worked through 1953.

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