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Three Sisters, High Cascades, Oregon

RÉSUMÉ
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

EXPERIENCE:
I spent over 25 years as a research scientist in natural history and ecology in forest, shrub steppe, subarctic, desert, coastal, and agricultural settings. Trained primarily as a vertebrate zoologist, I was a research mammalogist in Nubia, Egypt, (1963-1964) with the Yale University Peabody Museum Prehistoric Expedition and a research mammalogist in Nepal (1966-1967), where I participated in a study of tick-borne diseases for the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit #3 based in Cairo, Egypt. I conducted a three-year (1970-1973) ecological survey of the Oregon Coast for the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington. I was a research ecologist with the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management for thirteen years (1974-1987)—the last eight studying old-growth forests in western Oregon—and a landscape ecologist with the Environmental Protection Agency for one year (1990-1991).

Today I am an independent author as well as an international lecturer, facilitator in resolving environmental conflicts, vision statements, and sustainable community development. I am also an international consultant in forest ecology and sustainable forestry practices.

PUBLICATIONS:
I have written over 270 publications, including the following books:

•The Redesigned Forest (1988)

•Fleas of the Pacific Northwest. (1988, with Robert E. Lewis and J.H. Lewis)

•Forest Primeval:  The Natural History of an Ancient Forest (1989)

•Global Imperative:  Harmonizing Culture and Nature (1992)

•Sustainable Forestry:  Philosophy, Science, and Economics (1994)

•From the Forest to the Sea:  The Ecology of Wood in Streams, Rivers, Estuaries, and Oceans (1994, with James R. Sedell)

•Resolving Environmental Conflict:  Toward Sustainable Community Development (1996)

•Sustainable Community Development:  Principles and Concepts (1997)

•Setting the Stage for Sustainability:  A Citizen's Handbook (1998, with Russ Beaton and Kevin Smith)

•Vision and Leadership in Sustainable Development (1998)

•Mammals of the Pacific Northwest:  From the Coast to the High Cascades (1998)

•Ecological Diversity in Sustainable Development:  The Vital and Forgotten Dimension (1999)

•Reuniting Economy and Ecology in Sustainable Development (1999, with Russ Beaton)

•Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Development (2000, with Jane Silberstein)

•Forest Certification in Sustainable Development:  Healing the Landscape (2000, with Walter Smith)

•The Perpetual Consequences of Fear and Violence:  Rethinking the Future (2004)

•Evaluating Sustainable Development:  Giving People a Voice in Their Destiny (2004, with Okechukwu Ukaga)

•The World is in My Garden:  A Journey of Consciousness. (2005, with Zane Maser)

•Our Forest Legacy:  Today's Decisions, Tomorrow's Consequences. (2005)

•Of Ditches and Ponds:  A Journey Through the Metaphors of Childhood and Maturity. (2006)

•Teaching Kids to Change The World:  Lessons to Inspire Social Responsibility for Grades 6 - 12. 128 pp. (2008, Junior author with Jennifer Griffin-Wiesner, in press).

•Of Paradoxes and Metaphors:  Understanding Some of Life's Lessons. (2007, in press)

•Trees, Truffles, and Beasts:  How Forests Function. (2008, Senior author with Andrew W. Claridge and James M. Trappe, in press)

•Sustainable Development:  Principles, Frameworks, And Case Studies. (2009, Editors: Okechukwu Ukaga, Chris Maser, and Michael Reichenbach, in press.)

I HAVE LIVED, WORKED, CONSULTED, AND/OR LECTURED IN:  Austria • Canada • Chile • Egypt • France • Germany • Japan • Malaysia • Nepal • Slovakia • Switzerland • and various settings in the United States

British Columbia, Canada

Cergov, Slovakia

Cascade Mountains, Oregon, USA

High-mountain sentinels

Pasoh, Malaysia