Board of Directors
Thomas L. Fleischner, Ph.D., President
Stephen C. Trombulak, Ph.D., Vice-President, and Editor
Steve is the Albert D. Mead Professor of Biology at Middlebury College in Middlebury,
Vermont. His interests are in the fields of conservation biology, environmental
education, and natural history, particularly of birds, mammals, and beetles.
Saul Weisberg, Secretary
Saul is the executive director and co-founder of North Cascades Institute,
a nonprofit conservation education organization in Sedro-Woolley, WA.
A national leader in environmental education, Saul worked throughout the
Northwest as a wilderness ranger, biologist, fisherman and fire lookout
before starting the Institute in 1986. An outstanding naturalist,
Saul has written extensively about mountains, watersheds and wildlife,
as well as many articles on environmental education. His passions include canoeing,
bugs and walking in the mountains in the rain.
Joshua Tewksbury, Ph.D., Treasurer
Joshua J. Tewksbury is an Associate Professor in the biology department
of the University of Washington. His research interests include
ecology, evolution and conservation, with active research focused on
plant-animal interactions, tropical ecology and evolution, fragmentation
and connectivity, physiological responses to climate change, and
chemical evolution in ripe fruit. Josh is an advocate for the
collection and curation of natural history information, and the
integration of natural history information in the conservation and
management of populations, species, and ecosystems. Josh is also a
founding board member of the Yanayaku Natural History Research Group,
the Corridor Research Group, the Connected Washington working group, and
the Program on the Environment at the University of Washington.
Arya Degenhardt
David Lukas, naturalist
and author
John Tallmadge, Ph.D., author,
educator, and consultant
John is a nature writer and environmental educator who lives in
Cincinnati, Ohio, where he maintains an independent practice of
literary and educational consulting. He taught literature and
environment for thirty years at institutions such as Carleton College,
the Union Institute, and the University of Utah. He is the author
of two memoirs, Meeting the Tree of Life: A Teacher’s Path (Utah 1997)
and The Cincinnati Arch: Learning from Nature in the City (Georgia 2004)
as well as numerous articles in scholarly journals and environmental
magazines such as Orion, Audubon, Utne Reader, Environmental Ethics,
and ISLE. He has served as a director of the Orion Society and as
president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment.
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