Claim: George Calef, a Canadian wildlife biologist, was educated at the University of Tennessee and was a co-owner of Barren Lands Lodge.
Evidence: Born in Los Angeles, California and educated at the University of British Columbia, Calef worked as a wildlife biology researcher in the Canadian Arctic, studying caribou for the governments of Canada and the Northwest Territories. 
George Calef is a Canadian wildlife biologist, author and photographer, who won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 1981 Governor General's Awards for his nature book Caribou and the Barren-Lands. 
Caribou and the Barren-Lands