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  • Mark Anderson

    Mark Anderson is director of conservation science for The Nature Conservancy’s Eastern U.S. Region. He provides science leadership, ecological analysis,…

  • Jo Ann Baumgartner

    Jo Ann Baumgartner is executive director of Wild Farm Alliance. She is the co-author of Supporting Beneficial Birds and Managing Pest Birds and…

  • Douglas Bevington

    Douglas Bevington directs Environment Now's programs to protect California's forests.  Environment Now recently merged with the Lionardo DiCaprio Foundation. Dr. Bevington…

  • Kelly Burke

    Kelly Burke serves as Executive Director for Grand Canyon Wildlands Council (now Wild Arizona), which she cofounded with Kim Crumbo…

  • Sandra Coveny

    Sandra Coveny (sandra.coveny@gmail.com) lives in Portland, Oregon, and works on projects where social and environmental justice intersect. She is a…

  • David Crews

    David Crews is author of Wander-Thrush: Lyric Essays of the Adirondacks (Ra Press, 2018) and High Peaks (Ra Press, 2015)—a…

  • Eileen Crist

    Eileen Crist received her Bachelor’s from Haverford College and her Ph.D. from Boston University, in sociology with specialization in life…

  • John Davis

    John Davis lives with his family in Split Rock Wildway, where he care-takes Hemlock Rock Wildlife Sanctuary when not roaming…

  • Geo Davis

    Geo Davis is self-medicating midlife with daily doses of poetry, doodling, and adrenaline. He is a poet errant who blogs,…

  • Gordon Davis

    Gordon Davis was born in 1941 in Richmond, Virginia, where he attended the public schools. He is an engineering graduate…

  • Michael Dax

    Michael Dax is the New Mexico Representative for Defenders of Wildlife, based in Santa Fe. Before moving to New Mexico, Michael…

  • Kenyon Fields

    Kenyon Fields, former western strategic director of Wildlands Network, now co-manages Mountain Island Ranch with his wife Mary Conover. Kenyon…

  • Mark Fisher

    Mark Fisher is the author of Self-willed Land, an advocacy website for wild land and nature. He is an honorary member of…

  • Sara Fern Fitzsimmons

    Sara Fern Fitzsimmons has worked at Penn State University with The American Chestnut Foundation since 2003, assisting chestnut growers and…

  • Dave Foreman

    Dave Foreman is a legendary conservation leader and wilderness strategist.  His half-century career in conservation has changed, and bettered, the…

  • Dr. Richard Grossman

    Dr. Richard Grossman has been concerned about human overpopulation growth since 1960, and he has practiced OB-GYN in Durango, CO,…

  • Randy Hayes

    Randy Hayes has been described in the Wall Street Journal as “an environmental pit bull.” He is Executive Director of…

  • Sofia Heinonen

    Sofia Heinonen is the conservation director for Conservation Land Trust in Argentina, part of the larger Tompkins Conservation team.  With…

  • Roger Kaye

    Roger Kaye came to Alaska in the mid-1970s, where he spent the summer working at Camp Denali, a wilderness, eco-tourism…

  • Andy Kerr

    Andy Kerris the Czar of The Larch Company and consults on environmental and conservation issues. The Larch Company is a for-profit non-membership…

  • John Laundré

    John Laundré was born and raised in the Midwest (Wisconsin) and received his bachelors and masters degrees there.  He received…

  • Gary Lawless

    Gary Lawless is a poet, bioregional advocate, and co-founder of Gulf of Maine Books, in Brunswick, Maine. He and his…

  • Nancy Lehrhaupt

    Nancy Lehrhaupt has been an outdoor and nature enthusiast since childhood. She met and married John “Obie” Oberhausen and together…

  • Jon Leibowitz

    Jon Leibowitz is Executive Director of Northeast Wilderness Trust—the only land trust in the northeastern United States focused exclusively on…

  • Robert T. Leverett

    Bob Leverett is the co-founder of the Native Tree Society, co-founder and President of Friends of Mohawk Trail State Forest,…

  • Paula MacKay

    Paula MacKay is a freelance writer, researcher, and field biologist who has studied wild predators for the past two decades. Paula…

  • Lucila Masera

    Lucila Masera studied chemical engineering in Buenos Aires, and environmental engineering in Madrid, where she also worked in a forestry…

  • Tim McNulty

    Tim McNulty is a poet, essayist, and nature writer based on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. He is the author of ten…

  • Brad Meiklejohn

    Brad Meiklejohn served until his recent semi-retirement as Alaska State Director for The Conservation Fund, where he has worked since 1994.…

  • John Miles

    John Miles grew up in New Hampshire and graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in anthropology. He earned an…

  • Brian Miller

    Brian J. Miller received a PhD from the University of Wyoming in behavioral ecology and conservation of black-footed ferrets and…

  • McClain Jeffrey Moredock

    McClain Jeffrey Moredock has worked as a farmhand, a lifeguard, a surveyor, a minister, a chaplain, a teacher, a coach,…

  • Susan Morgan

    Susan Morgan, PhD, studied Southwest archaeology and holds degrees in English and environmental studies. In 1967 she began as Director…

  • Susie O'Keeffe

    Susie O’Keeffe lives at the headwaters of the Sheepscot River in Montville, Maine. She is an independent writer and teacher…

  • David Parsons

    David R. Parsons, MS, received his Bachelor of Science degree in Fisheries and Wildlife Biology from Iowa State University and…

  • Stuart Pimm

    Stuart Pimm holds the Doris Duke Chair of Conservation at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University. He is…

  • Robert Michael Pyle

    Robert Michael Pyle, is a biologist and writer who has published twenty-four books and hundreds of papers, essays, stories and…

  • Kirk Robinson

    Kirk Robinson is the founder and executive director of the Western Wildlife Conservancy, a non-profit wildlife conservation organization. He lives…

  • Nicole Rosmarino

    Nicole Rosmarino helped found the Southern Plains Land Trust and is currently its Executive Director. She served as the caretaker…

  • David T. Schwartz

    David T. Schwartz is the Mary Frances Williams Professor of Humanities, and Professor of Philosophy, at Randolph College in Lynchburg,…

  • Katie Shepard

    Passionate about reading and stories, Katie Shepard's dream was to make those things a part of her career and to…

  • Terry Spahr

    Terry Spahr graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in History and a Master's Degree in Government Administration…

  • Chris Spatz

    Chris Spatz, inspired by Dave Foreman announcing the birth of Earth First! on The Today Show in the early '80s,…

  • Michael Soulé

    Michael Soulé is often called the father of conservation biology. Michael co-founded several key groups, including the Society for Conservation…

  • Nancy Stranahan

    Nancy Stranahan serves as the Director of the Arc of Appalachia Preserve System, and was one of the non-profit’s founders…

  • Andrew Thoms

    Andrew Thoms grew up in rural upstate New York State. After studying Environmental Sciences at SUNY Plattsburgh, he worked for…

  • Sophi Veltrop

    Sophi is the Outreach Coordinator at Northeast Wilderness Trust with a background in land conservation, communications, and outdoor and environmental…

  • Kevin Webb

    A transplant to New York City, Kevin Webb grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he worked as…

  • Saul Weisberg

    Saul Weisberg is executive director and co-founder of North Cascades Institute. Saul is an ecologist, naturalist, and writer who has explored…

  • Christopher R. Wilson

    Christopher R. Wilson is a conservation scientist, wildlife ecologist, and president of Conservation Ecology LLC. Since the late 1990s, Chris has led biological inventories…

  • George Wuerthner

    George Wuerthner is an ecologist, former river ranger for the Alaska BLM and backcountry ranger in the Gates of the…

  • Suzanne York

    Suzanne York is the Director of Transition Earth.  She has reported on international human rights, globalization, and environmental issues for…

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