THE JOURNAL OF THE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES FALL 2008 environment YALE
Chinese Cities Shaping Their Climate By Christina Larson page 12 Global Warming Focus of New Fund By Jon Luoma page 16
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To the Editor: These questions will force manufacturers in ufactured goods, the United States has a Since the publication of your excellent China, Indonesia and elsewhere to identify the considerable ability to improve not just the article, “Forest Destruction’s Prime Suspect” scientific name of any species used and the global wood trade but illegal practices in (environment: Yale, Spring 2008), the United country of original harvest, introducing a vital mining, fishing and other resource extraction States has become the first country in the new level of transparency to supply chains. industries as well. This could be the first in world to ban the import and sale of illegally Companies and individuals can be pros- a line of measures that uses U.S. consumer harvested wood. ecuted under the law if the government can power to improve global natural resource In response to pressure from a diverse prove that they knowingly traded in illegal management. coalition of environmental, industrial and wood or were negligent in not knowing The Environmental Investigation Agency labor groups, the Bush administration passed that their supply was illegal. Any shipment led the diverse coalition that supported this a ground-breaking law in May banning com- of wood can be seized if the government can bill’s passage, and we continue to work closely merce in illegally sourced plants and their prove that it was illegally harvested or traded, with forest industry and nongovernmental products, including timber and wood products. regardless of the owner’s knowledge. By organization partners to support its effective The new law amends the Lacey Act, a changing the equation of risks and incen- implementation by the U.S. government. long-standing anti-wildlife-trafficking statute. tives, the United States sends a strong signal Moreover, we hope that the United States’ It criminalizes the import of or commerce in to those actors participating in illegal logging leadership on an environmental issue of illegal wood products and establishes an and trade: we’re on to you. The Lacey Act global importance will pave the way for import declaration requirement due to go into model is unique in supporting the efforts of similar demand-side measures in the effect on December 15, 2008. Compliance developing nations to protect their forests European Union, Japan and other key with the law will require that companies by backing up their own laws and helping consumer markets. ask their suppliers about the source of their to encourage due diligence throughout the ANDREA JOHNSON ’05 raw material, undoing the “no-questions- supply chain. FOREST CAMPAIGNS DIRECTOR, asked” norm in today’s timber trade sector. As the world’s largest consumer of man- ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY
Correction In the Spring 2008 issue of environment: Yale, the cover story “Forest Destruction’s Prime Suspect” states on page 8 that rare merbau logs had been transported from Papua New Guinea. It should have said Papua, Indonesia.
Testing the Limits of Tiny By Melinda Tuhus Most people buy clothing to fit their bodies, but not too many build houses to fit their bodies—literally. Elizabeth Turnbull ’10 is building her dream house— all 132 square feet of it. And the frame of the sleeping loft measures six feet one inch from the floor, giving her, at almost six feet tall, a tiny bit of head room as she walks to her study space below it. Along with her laptop, Turnbull brought her tiny house with her when she matriculated at F&ES. A 2004 Graduate of Colby College, she packed a lifetime of experiences into the years before starting grad school: leading cross-country bike trips; toiling on the 2004 Kerry presidential campaign in West Virginia, where she grew up; backpacking and doing farm work in New Solar panels illuminate the interior of Elizabeth Tunrbull’s 132-square-foot house and provide power for Turnbull’s laptop. Inside, Turnbull sleeps and studies on a loft. continued on page 37 6 12 19 28
CONTENTS environment:YALE 2 19 29 The Journal of the School of Dean’s Message In Memoriam: A Tribute to Forestry & Environmental Studies Selling the university on a green For Strachan Donnelley, William Burch Fall 2008 • Vol. 7, No. 2 building wasn’t easy, or pretty. Hunting Was Being For 40 years, Bill Burch’s trade- Editor Fully Human mark teaching style was part David DeFusco 6 Strachan Donnelley was a commit- instructional, part inspirational Director of Communications ted conservationist and an ardent and all from the heart. Copy Editor Wall Street’s Anne Sommer Carbon Conversion supporter of F&ES. Alumni/ae Liaison to Editor Bankers are now factoring global Special Insert Kathleen Schomaker warming into their investment 22 Honor Roll of Donors Director of Alumni/ae Affairs decisions, which, one venture Government Report Design capitalist says, will reindustrialize Nancy J. Dobos Finds Wildlife Refuges 31 DobosDesign the entire planet. Falling Into Neglect Class Notes Editorial Advisory Board The 548 National Wildlife Refuges Alan Brewster, Jane Coppock, 12 Gordon Geballe, Eugenie don’t have enough resources to 59 Gentry, Stephen Kellert, Thirsty Chinese Cities fulfill their missions. Obituaries Emly McDiarmid, Peter Otis Getting Drier As Dean Skyscrapers Rise James Gustave Speth 26 64 Scientists agree that cities are Memo to President-elect Commentary environment:Yale is published not only affected by their regional Obama: ‘Sustainability’ twice a year (Spring and Fall) by climate, they shape it. Michael Coren ’09 is part of a the Yale School of Forestry & Key to Energy Policy World Bank team that is developing Environmental Studies. Editorial F&ES professors say the next U.S. Indonesia’s strategy to recruit offices are located at 205 Prospect 16 president must lead boldly on tropical forests in the fight Street, New Haven, CT 06511. against climate change. 203-436-4842 Fund to Address Downside alternative energy. email: [email protected] of China’s Boom http://environment.yale.edu An Asia Environment Fund will 28 printed on recycled paper focus on the crisis that is not only Bookshelf with soy-based inks China’s, or Asia’s, but the entire world’s—global warming.
Cover art by James Yang Fall 2008 environment:YALE 1 message Dean James Gustave Speth
The Fitful Birth 1998, a year before I began as dean, Steve drafted a of Kroon Hall dozen “design principles,” including the following three: • Conservation and Sustainability. A new facility The marvelous and striking Kroon Hall is taking dean’s should emphasize the school’s environmental ideals shape now, and its super-green features are widely and objectives, serving as a model for others. It trumpeted around the university and far beyond. Our should strive for the highest standards of energy estimable builders, Turner Construction, bring employees efficiency, waste processing, environmental health here from all over to see how it’s done. The dreaded and sustainable material use. Pierson-Sage Power Plant (PSPP) that once occupied • Environmental Experience and Connection. A new the site is gone now. Soon, attention will turn to the facility should stress the quality of its natural landscaping of two magnificent courtyards where once surroundings, emphasizing healthy natural process there was asphalt and to the redesign of Sachem’s Wood, and diversity. Landscape design should reflect the and one of Yale’s most magical places will emerge. We school’s work and ideals—e.g., demonstration sites, are scheduled to move into our new home in December. restoration areas, indigenous plantings and aesthet- Meanwhile, on a larger scale, Yale’s president, Richard ically and intellectually inspiring natural areas. Levin, has announced that all of Yale’s new buildings will • Nature and the City. A new facility should be a be LEED-certified, perhaps not green to the climate- model of how healthy natural process can be a neutral Kroon, but still green. And Yale is busily reducing compatible and enriching aspect of the modern its greenhouse gases by 43 percent over 2005 levels by city. Our facility should emphasize the complemen- 2020, just 12 years away. tary relation of the natural and built environments. On a still-larger scale, the green-building movement is not just taking off—it’s flying high. In 2006 there were Thanks to Steve, these goals have guided us ever since. 400 U.S. LEED-certified buildings; in 2007, one year The school that year, 1998, was engaged in a vigorous later, that number had jumped to 1,000, with 6,000 argument with the university over the siting of our new more in the pipeline. building. Some faculty favored an “up-the-hill” location, All in all, an idyllic picture! But the burden of this across from Marsh Hall; others favored the site on Prospect piece is that it was not always thus. What seems in Kroon near the canal, where Yale’s two new undergraduate resi- and around us as an elegant and inevitable progression dential colleges are now slated to go. Votes were taken, was anything but. We are seeing a wondrous thing occur and almost no one favored the site where Kroon now on the Kroon site not because someone said, “Let there rises. It was in many ways a dog of a site. be Kroon,” but because of vision, struggle, determination, The university was adamant, however, and again it great generosity and an amazing amount of hard work fell to Steve to craft, in April 1999, the conditions under by lots of people applying their various talents. Let me which the school could accept this site and make a silk assure you: getting to where we are today was not always purse out of the sow’s ear. Steve’s conditions stressed the pretty. Within the past decade similar struggles have need to clear out the power plant, remediate the site as occurred elsewhere in the United States and abroad, necessary and create beautiful grounds around the new and the result is today’s green-building movement. building—grounds that linked into a new landscaping No history has been written of how we got to where of Sachem’s Wood. Perhaps most of all, Steve’s conditions we are today, but the story of Kroon Hall goes back to stressed the need to have the school deeply involved in the mid-1990s, some years before I arrived on the scene the selection of architects and landscapers and, indeed, in 1999. Yale’s work on what became the Science Hill in all key decisions. Plan began in about 1995 and, with it, serious thinking Steve’s insistence on our participation was crucial. about new facilities for F&ES. Thanks to Professor In a recent interview with the Yale Alumni Magazine, Stephen Kellert’s vision then and later, there was never Steve pointed out the following: any question that the school’s new facilities, whatever they “The idea [of a green, sustainable design] was so were, would seek to “realize in built form our mission and foreign in those days,” recalls Kellert. “The initial reac- ideals as an institution,” as Steve put it. In September tion was to dismiss it as a kind of blue-sky thing. They
2 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies said, ‘You guys are academics, you don’t know anything the money for it.” I will not give you the details, but we about building, we have an office of facilities for that.’ did raise the money. It took a lot of hard work by me There was an inclination to dismiss us as a bunch of and our great development team and a lot of generosity interfering amateurs.” from some wonderful people. I am especially grateful to I was dean-designate in the spring of 1999, and I the early, visionary lead donors, Ed Bass and Mary Jane was brought in to close the deal on location and a few and Rick Kroon, soon joined by Coley Burke, Carl other matters with then-Provost Alison Richard. Alison, Knobloch, John Mars, Gilman Ordway, Joan and Dick an environmentalist herself, was positive on our views Tweedy, Jonathan Rose and William Waxter. Together, and reassuring in her answers to me. And so, with that we did it. (Well, almost. We still have some additional agreement, the next phase, and the real work, began. funds we need to raise for Kroon Hall.) A huge amount of effort then ensued in which Steve and I were also regularly reminded during this Steve, I and Assistant Dean Jane Coppock were heavily period by both Yale facilities and the provost’s office not involved: defining the various buildings that F&ES to set our sights too high. [Their view was that green was would occupy, as well as their sizes, functions and costs at war with reality, especially economic reality, and green to build or renovate, and phasing them into the chess- would have to give way sooner or later.] In response, board that is the Science Hill Plan. One decision was to well, we smiled, and hardened our determination to put our new building into Phase I of the plan. That prove them wrong. decided, I was then told something by Mother Yale that I should stress that a place like Yale is an inherently caused the next few years of my life to become very clear complicated place to do business for a customer like to me: “Gus, being in Phase I means that construction on F&ES. It would be our building, for which we would the new F&ES building can begin as soon as you raise raise the money, and it would reflect, for good or ill, our
“Their view was that green was at war with reality, especially economic reality, and green would have to give way sooner or later.”
Dean Speth sits at the controls of an excavator to show his enthusiastic support for the demolition of the Pierson-Sage Power Plant. Matthew Garrett
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values and define our image to the world, but we are not in the driver’s seat on any decision. The authority to “There is simply no way on God’s make all relevant decisions lay elsewhere. It did from the beginning; it does today. This, of course, compli- green earth that we can live with a new
dean’s cates everyone’s life in the normal course of things, but it can make life especially complicated when what one F&ES building anchored at one end by is trying to accomplish is innovative, when it represents [the power plant]. Can you imagine doing business differently, when it offers the potential— or the threat—of major change in the system. And our how silly we would all look if Yale’s first proposals for a path-breaking green building did all these things. green building had at its heart the very At the end of my first year as dean, on May 8, 2000, technology we are trying to replace?” I wrote Steve an overview memo, which said as follows: In conversations going back a year or so, three features of our new facilities have been discussed [by us] and, I believe, agreed upon: Sage Power Plant (PSPP) and associated facilities 1. The new facilities will strive to set a new standard and operations. We would not want this step to in environmental, sustainable design; delay the construction of the new F&ES building. 2. Beyond our needs at the school, these facilities ... We would like to take this occasion to request will provide an environmental center for Yale. Not that an early environmental investigation and only will they provide space for the undergraduate remediation assessment be commissioned by the environmental studies major, but they will also university. serve as a place where all those interested in environ- Our comments continued: mental affairs at Yale could come together for Regarding the discussion [in the draft plan] of the discussions, lectures, classes, exhibits, etc., and new F&ES facility on p. 64, there are several where Yale environmental groups, e.g., Yale Student important points: Environment Coalition and Yale Institute for (a) We must take exception to the proposal to retain Biospheric Studies, etc., could have offices; the additional referenced portion of the power plant. We 3. The facilities and grounds together will be a need to look into this further, but if this proposal thing of great beauty, architecturally stunning (as compromises the F&ES design objectives that were the Yale’s music library is), maximizing the natural setting basis of faculty agreement to move to the currently and moving naturally to Sachem’s Wood and across proposed site, then the agreement is undermined. to the Class of 1954 Environmental Science Center. We recognize that this issue has a history, but we We need to put Yale’s environment school on the map, are sufficiently concerned by the incompatible use to create something that can both teach and inspire, to issue that we request that the university begin underscore Yale’s commitments in these areas and to have a investigations of options that would allow us to plan that will attract major donors. terminate entirely the PSPP facility. It is hard to But then a week later, on May 15, I received a new believe that continuing operations on this site will draft of the Science Hill Plan from the provost’s office. It not be incompatible with agreed objectives for F&ES. disturbed me greatly, and I sent it to Steve with a note Noise, vibrations, temperature control, contamination, to call me urgently. By May 26, 2000, I submitted our fumes, aesthetic limitations, space limitations, design comments on the draft to the provost’s office. I assumed constraints, etc., could all be problems. that the draft plan was unsettling because it had not (b) The description of the new F&ES building caught up with the commitments that had been made, should, but does not yet, include two agreed features. and so I made the following points to the provost’s office: One is that the building should meet the highest possible standards of environmental and aesthetic Regarding infrastructure, we believe the university design, “making a statement,” as Joe Mullinix [the should begin quickly to decommission the Pierson- then-vice president for finance and administration at
4 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Yale] put it, and providing a learning and teaching the need for a firm, clear position. … We accepted the experience for the university as a whole. The other is Administration’s proposed site on the understanding that the building will provide an environmental center that we would have the site to carry out the vision we for the university with space for student and faculty had. We can accept no compromise here: any residual gatherings, meetings and lectures; for environmentally power facility can in no way infringe except insignifi- related exhibits; and for offices of YSEC [Yale Student cantly on realizing our objectives. If it does, the agree- Environmental Coalition], EVST [Environmental ment is OFF. Please relate this on my behalf and that Studies] and similar things, all of which would further of the school.” the stated goal and objectives of the Science Hill Plan. We envision an attractive setting that would draw In April 2001 I wrote the deputy provost a long memo together students and faculty from around the on this subject, which said in part: university. The building itself would be on display. (c) We are concerned that there is no discussion in Our deep concerns [regarding PSPP plans] should come this document of the space between the new F&ES as no surprise. In our letter to you of 26 May 2000 we building and Sage-Bowers-Physics. As you appreciate, raised these same issues and requested that the university we cannot have a beautiful facility on one side and an “begin investigations of options that would allow us to unsightly mess on the other. New efforts should be terminate entirely the PSPP facility” within our site. We undertaken to determine alternative means of servicing earnestly make this request again. This whole issue is Kline Tower, in which we would like to participate. … occasioned by a change in university plans to something The area should be viewed as an extension of the quite different from what we were originally told. There Sachem’s Wood landscaping and should not be used is no reason why our school should have to bear the for parking, trash, garbage, oil spills, etc., as is the burden of this change in plans. Let’s think creatively. case today. There will be lots of construction on Science Hill, and there will surely be other, better sites for whatever is It turned out that the phoenix-like rebirth of the necessary. The worst option is to locate two fossil boilers PSPP was not a case of oversight by the provost’s office. In in Yale’s flagship green building. truth, it gradually came out that what had been promised us regarding a site free of the PSPP was being reneged on. Over a period of months that became years, I took By early 2001 it was clear that the university had reversed the case against PSPP to the deputy provost, to university field and decided to keep the PSPP operational. The planning, to the head of facilities, to the vice president for university’s energy czars had simply rolled over us. I was administration. My basic point was that the university shocked and wrote Steve as follows: should look seriously and creatively at alternatives, including green ones. Somewhat to my surprise, I see Steve: Alan Brewster related to me a bit about your when I look over the old documents that I even urged meeting yesterday on our new facility. He said you were the university to find a climate-neutral alternative. quite forceful on the power plant issue. Let me underscore Frankly, I got nowhere. My frustration mounted. In continued on page 64
Fall 2008 5 Wall Street’s
By Richard Conniff
CARBON Early this year, four major investment firms—Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan CONVERSION Stanley and Bank of America— announced standards that effectively prevent them from financing new construction of conventional coal-fired power plants, currently the largest source of electric power in the United States. With the credit crisis dominating the head- lines, it was a minor story buried deep in the business section. But it turned on an increasingly important factor in investment decisions, with the potential both for enormous profits and for losses that could ultimately make the credit crisis look pale: The bankers were worried about global warming. They made it clear that their concern in language last heard during the dot-com The U.S. voluntary market tripled last year was primarily financial, not environmental. boom. Venture capitalist John Doerr, for to $331 million, according to nonprofit In the event that the United States adopts instance, describes the move to a low- Ecosystem Marketplace. a cap-and-trade system on greenhouse gas carbon economy as a market worth Beyond carbon trading, climate change emissions, primarily carbon dioxide, major “ENORMOUS trillions” (and the use of finance now reaches into almost every seg- polluters would be required to pay for every the uppercase is his), adding, “We’re talking ment of the economy. Global investments ton of emissions in excess of their cap, about nothing less than the reindustrial- in clean technology (meaning alternative and that cap would get lower each year. ization of the whole planet.” Likewise, the energy, conservation and efficiency meas- Even a banker could hardly fail to notice Carbon Trust, a British nonprofit, has ures) totaled $148.4 billion in 2007, that coal-fired power plants produce many issued “a trillion-dollar wakeup call,” according to market-watcher New Energy tons of CO2 and that the power industry predicting a “revolution in business” as Finance. But the sector also includes green has no realistic prospect of a remedy. the implications of climate change become investments in water supply, agriculture, Global warming worries also caused Wall apparent: “Companies and investors that forestry, seawalls and other infrastructure Street to downgrade coal companies this prepare now and develop new strategies for adapting to climate change and a grow- year, and Xcel Energy, one of the nation’s will reap the commercial rewards of the ing assortment of relatively exotic financial largest builders of coal-fired power plants, move to a low-carbon economy” and instruments like weather derivatives (to agreed in a settlement with the state of “badly positioned or slow companies” account for the risk of more intense hurri- New York to provide a detailed disclosure will lose out. canes, droughts and floods). The number of its climate change risk. The rapid growth in climate change of players has also rapidly increased. Back Companies with less-obvious exposure finance may well justify the hype. At the in 2005, the first hedge funds specializing to global warming also found themselves start of 2005, for instance, the trade in car- in climate change had just set up shop, under pressure to come clean about their bon emissions permits was literally hot air, says Peter Fusaro, an energy consultant risks—and the pressure was being applied with a value of zero. But it has boomed and author of the 2006 book Energy and not just by lawsuits and shareholder reso- since the Kyoto Protocol imposed emissions Environmental Hedge Funds—The New lutions but by the Earth itself. “If you’re limits in 38 countries, and permits now Investment Paradigm. Today the climate Coca-Cola and you can’t get water in some of your main markets because of drought, “We’re talking about nothing less than the you’re in trouble,” says Daniel Esty, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law reindustrialization of the whole planet.” and Policy at F&ES. If you’re a real estate John Doerr company with ski lodges at lower eleva- tions, he adds, you may find financing sell for about $37 a ton on the European change sector includes 90 hedge funds available based only on their income as Climate Exchange. The global carbon and 80 private equity funds, in addition to hiking lodges. Insurance companies are market logged $64 billion in trades in a large number of venture capitalists. also factoring climate risk into their poli- 2007 and is on track to top $100 billion Yale alumni have taken a leading role cies. Writing in the Financial Times, Kevin this year. One recent forecast predicted in promoting climate change finance, and Parker of Deutsche Asset Management that the trade would reach $1 trillion a year this summer Fast Company magazine warned, “If you can’t finance it and you in 2020, assuming the United States joins featured “a cadre of young idealistic Yale can’t insure it, it probably isn’t going to the market with the passage of a cap-and- forestry grads” at the core of the market. get built.” trade system now being discussed in One of them, Kate Hamilton ’06, director The idea that there could also be an Congress. (President-elect Barack Obama of Ecosystem Marketplace, says, “When I upside in this scenario might sound wish- and Senator John McCain are both promi- go into a meeting, I inevitably see another ful. But in fact, a thriving new business nent among the backers.) F&ES grad. We’re all over the place in this sector, climate change finance, is already Even without that mandate, U.S. market, from the finance side to the project taking shape, with a focus on likely winners companies and individuals moved to development side.” Yale’s dual-degree pro- as well as losers. Moreover, business and reduce their global-warming impact (and gram offered by the School of Management environmental leaders alike are treating it get experience in the market) through the and the School of Forestry & Environmental as a promising development—sometimes voluntary use of carbon offsets and credits. Studies is now 27 years old, and it has
Fall 2008 7 recently moved to increase the number of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) against the use of corn as a feedstock. The graduates, according to Bryan Garcia ’00, can think about a problem as well as hun- nascent carbon emissions trading industry program director of the Center for dreds of thousands of companies when the has also experienced credibility problems Business and the Environment at Yale. The burden is put on them,” says Esty, himself a over the use of questionable offsets. In the center has also hosted a continuing series former EPA administrator. Business, he most notorious case, the British band of talks by leaders in climate change adds, also has the clout to produce dramatic Coldplay claimed to have rendered a con- finance. A collection of last year’s talks, results quickly, like Wal-Mart making a cert tour carbon neutral by planting Carbon Finance: Environmental Market commitment to green in 2007—and then 10,000 trees in India. Then the trees died, Solutions to Climate Change, edited by imposing it on 60,000 suppliers. causing a public relations debacle not just Garcia and Eric Roberts ’10, has just been But the optimism about climate for Coldplay but also for the idea of off- published and can also be found online at change finance needs to be cautious, too. sets. The experience served as a painful www.yale.edu/cbey/carbonfinance2008. “It’s the most complex financial market lesson in the need for rigorous standards, This year, the series is focusing on how ever created,” says Fusaro. Just in the area with independent monitoring and verifica- climate change is affecting the purchase of emissions trading, he counts 38 envi- tion. and management of forestland. ronmental markets in the United States The complexity of climate change dealing in everything from acid rain emis- finance also derives from its close connec- he surge of interest in climate sions permits to California’s mobile emis- tion to public policy. Other investments change finance is clearly bringing sions reductions credits—that is, credits typically fluctuate on the basis of conven- money to bear on the problem. for reducing tailpipe exhaust. Each of tional business considerations like the sup- T According to a 2007 United Nations these markets, and each of the different ply of raw materials or the cost of manu- report, 85 percent of the investment to clean technologies, requires specialized facturing. But many carbon markets exist address climate change now comes from knowledge, down to the nitty gritty of only because of government intervention. the private sector, not government. Esty, how bus engines work or how forests The sector’s single-largest commodity, car- co-author of the 2006 book Green to Gold, sequester carbon. “If you don’t understand bon emissions permits, depends on the about business use of environmental strate- it, don’t invest in it,” says Fusaro. Mutual Kyoto Protocol, which is due to expire in gies, argues that the shift away from gov- funds and ETFs (exchange-traded funds) 2012. A new, more stringent treaty will ernment is also engaging the attention of specializing in climate change issues have almost certainly replace Kyoto, probably people with the most experience at innova- sprung up in Europe and the United with the United States joining in. But it is tion and problem solving in a way that the States. But the market is still too young for at least conceivable—one of those risks old command-and-control style of environ- retail investors, he says. “You’ll get your disclosed in small print at the back of an mental regulation never did. “There is no head handed to you.” annual report—that the carbon emissions way a couple of thousand people at the Because this is new territory, volatility market, forecast to reach $1 trillion by 2020, could also be worth nothing. Peter Sweatman, of the British invest- “There is no way a couple of thousand people ment firm Climate Change Capital, dis- at the Environmental Protection Agency counted such fears when he spoke at Yale last year. “For people who ask if the can think about a problem as well as renewable-energy bubble is about to deflate, hundreds of thousands of companies I make the point that we currently have about 60,000 megawatts in the world of when the burden is put on them.” operational wind farms and what we need Daniel Esty is 2 million megawatts. We’re about 3 percent of the way there.” Referring to the is common. Investors in biofuels, analysis by Princeton professors Robert for instance, have recently found Socolow and Stephan Pacala that broke themselves whipsawed by down the challenge of stabilizing the drought in the Southeast climate into a series of manageable steps, and flooding in the now known as Socolow’s wedges, Sweatman Midwest, as well as says, “We have to reach 700 times today’s by a rapid turn in coverage of solar panels to create one of public sentiment Socolow’s wedges. The list goes on.”
8 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies But both wind and solar energy remain highly vulnerable to public policy uncertain- ty, at least in the United States. For instance, companies contemplating renewable-energy projects had to wait until October to find out if the tax credits that make these invest- ments economically practical would be extended beyond the end of the year and, even then, the good news came only as an add-on to the financial crisis bailout pack- age. According to a report from Navigant Consulting, companies would have invested just $7 billion in wind and solar power next year without the tax credits, versus $26.6 billion with the credits.
A final cause for caution about the James Yang potential of climate change finance is that making money doesn’t necessarily mean steady succession of events has Beyond the news cycle, climate change fixing the problem. Overall carbon emis- helped move climate change finance is also the product of a profound sions continue rising dramatically, up 38 finance out of environmental cul- shift in thinking about environmental percent since 1992. To the surprise of many A de-sacs and onto Wall Street. It issues. It owes its rapid growth, surpris- observers, the numbers actually got worse probably wouldn’t have happened solely ingly, to a simple but elegant innovation from 2006 to 2007, increasing by 3 percent, on the basis of the powerful scientific con- by the EPA. In the early decades of the according to a new report from the Global sensus that global warming is a real and environmental movement, the EPA was a Carbon Project. It is, of course, too soon to rapidly worsening threat. Market partici- notorious practitioner of the old command- expect climate change finance to have made pants often protest, perhaps as a way to and-control mode of governance. It did the much of a dent in the problem after just a boost their credibility on Wall Street, that research and made the rules. Businesses few years in existence. As businesses get they are not interested in socially responsi- “picked up the Federal Register and more experience with the idea of paying for ble investing. They say it’s about the money. learned what they had to do,” said Esty. the harm they cause, these “incentive-based But Hurricane Katrina drove home the And generally they didn’t like it, with the systems” may perhaps have the scale and likelihood of increasing devastation from result that time and money often went the speed to stop global warming. more-intense weather events, and Al into fighting the rules rather than fixing But the emissions problem is also Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth laid out the the problem. In the new mode, the gov- shifting to the East, where carbon markets logic of the scientific case in the starkest ernment simply puts a price on doing are less-developed. China is now the lead- possible terms. harm and leaves business to figure out ing greenhouse gas emitter and India is With the beginning of the Kyoto how to fix the problem. about to move into third place, with the Protocol climate regime in 2005, industrial Cap-and-trade systems are, of course, United States in between—none of them nations with emissions caps began the a bit more complicated than that. By defi- with a limit on emissions. “We have a tentative move away from fossil fuels. At nition, there’s a cap on overall pollution. short window of opportunity to act,” the same time, the war in Iraq was making The government then allocates or auctions Carbon Trust chief executive Tom Delay many Americans uneasy about how oil permits to companies for doing harm recently warned, “but, at present, business can distort foreign policy and about being within the cap, and the price of permits and investor actions are way out of step dependent on an endlessly turbulent tends to go up as the cap ratchets lower with the need to tackle climate change.” region of the world for the lifeblood of the each year. It’s up to individual companies Al Gore put it more bluntly. With the credit economy. Finally, the spike in oil prices, to figure out the smartest way to use those industry imploding in late September, he from about $25 a barrel in 2001 to as high permits. A utility might upgrade the effi- worried out loud about “a much-worse as $147 this summer, gave people an ciency of a power plant to reduce emissions catastrophe” from “several trillion dollars alarmingly immediate incentive to change and help pay for it by selling the permits it in subprime carbon assets” doing damage not just their minds but their behavior, no longer needs, preferably at a premium. to the atmosphere. “This is a rout,” he with the sickening prospect of going broke A cement company may decide that buy- warned. “We are losing badly.” every time they pulled up to the gas pump. ing more permits is cheaper, at least for
Fall 2008 9 “We have a short window of opportunity to act, but, at present, business and investor actions are way out of step with the need to tackle climate change.” Tom DeLay
now, than actually reducing emissions. deputy chief of staff at the EPA, and gov- of capital, beginning with the critical first This new incentive-based approach ernment scientists figured $750. But step of putting a price on causing harm. first got talked about in government cir- because cap-and-trade let companies find The peculiar psychology of cap-and- cles in the 1970s, when EPA staffers were the most economical way to meet targets, trade may give it a significant advantage in puzzling over how to put a price on doing the cost has actually averaged $250 a ton dealing with climate change compared harm. But the idea had a rich academic for sulfur dioxide and $125 a ton for with the alternative approach of a direct history before then, dating back to the nitrous oxide. The program to cut acid carbon tax. People respond tactically to an early 20th century British economist rain pollution in half by 2010 now costs increased cost, says Jon Anda, then-presi- Arthur Cecil Pigou. Pigou focused on how power companies $3 billion annually (ver- dent of Environmental Markets Network transactions cause—but often don’t sus early estimates of up to $25 billion). It when he spoke at Yale recently. “They can account for—a variety of external impacts. also generates $122 billion a year in bene- always pay to pollute, and so they don’t A manufacturer can cause air pollution fits, according to the EPA, from avoided have to turn the ship around.” But a cap- and not have to pay for illness among its death and illness, healthier forests and a and-trade system aimed at achieving 60 to neighbors. A landowner can plant a forest 30 percent improvement in visibility on 80 percent reductions in emissions by and not get compensated for improving the Eastern seaboard. 2050, in line with scientific recommenda- local water quality. Neither cost nor bene- The experience taught everyone tions, demands strategic change: “You fit shows up in the bottom line. Pigou pro- involved a powerful lesson in human don’t leave it to your chief financial officer posed “internalizing the externalities” with behavior: “People respond much more to manage your short position on the help of taxes and subsidies, so that readily to upside opportunity than to allowances. You back up the truck on both costs and benefits would show up in downside burdens,” says Esty. “There’s not research and development, you say carbon’s the bottom line. In 1960, the Chicago a person in a business anywhere who gets getting out of the system and you respond.” School economist Ronald Coase added the up in the morning and says ‘Gee, I want to The advantages of cap-and-trade, key idea of using tradable permits for the race into the office to follow some regula- combined with the success of the acid rain same purpose. Then, in the 1980s, Bruce tion.’ On the other hand, if you say ‘there’s program, provided a model for Kyoto Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and an upside potential here, you’re going to Protocol countries. Thus cap-and-trade Political Science at Yale, and Richard make money,’ people do get up early and has become the industrial world’s standard Stewart, of New York University School of do drive hard around the possibility of tool for addressing the global-warming Law, wrote a series of influential papers finding themselves winners on this.” challenge—except, ironically, in the arguing that, in the environmental arena, Esty adds: “That doesn’t mean govern- United States, which has lagged behind “A reform relying on market incentives is ment is unimportant. In fact, quite to the since failing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. just plain better, in terms of all relevant contrary, government has to be even more public values, than the status quo.” clever in the structure of rules and regula- or the climate change finance sector, Over the objections of skeptics, the tions to ensure that the incentives are the key question now is how the EPA put the idea to the test in the 1990s, there to engage the private sector, to draw United States will play catch-up. establishing a cap-and-trade system for these inventors and creative spirits into F One speaker in last year’s series utilities to fix the acid rain problem caused putting their time and effort into this set seemed to worry that the private sector is by power plant smokestack pollution. of issues.” Because businesses are entering moving both too fast and too slowly. “My Utility companies initially claimed that new territory, with a high potential for mar- concern,” says entrepreneur Howard removing the major pollutants would cost ket failures, “the only solution is to have Berke, chief executive of Konarka $1,500 a ton, says Esty, who was then rules that really frame and shape” the flow Technologies, “is too much money chasing”
10 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies premature technologies, with inexperi- Caterpillar and Duke Energy, a heavily oth the United States and Europe enced founders “trying to push science coal-dependent utility. Some skeptics have will also need to build on the Kyoto faster than science wants to be pushed. I argued that partnership members like Protocol’s Clean Development think we’re turning up the heat under the General Electric and Dupont—and the B Mechanism (CDM), says Bradford beaker a little bit hot.” At the same time, climate-change finance market generally— Gentry, senior lecturer in sustainable 85 percent of the market is business-to- want stricter limits on emissions because investments and director of the Center for business, meaning buyers who are “very, it will benefit their investments in the Business and the Environment at Yale, who very risk-averse.” The energy and utility renewable-energy sector. But like patients serves as a consultant to the United Nations sector in particular is “one of the most anticipating a potential cancer diagnosis, on how to pay for climate change remedies. conservative industries on the planet,” some industries may simply find waiting The CDM program steers money from the with little incentive to innovate on its in suspense more stressful than actually developed world into renewable-energy own. Utilities have had the advantage of having the inevitable bad news in hand. projects and other emissions reductions in never experiencing a world war on Fusaro says, “What we want is regulatory developing nations. It also functions as a American soil, says Berke, meaning they’ve certainty. We don’t want to make changes. kind of safety valve, keeping the price per never had to replace energy infrastructure We want policy certainty long-term.” ton low by allowing companies to achieve wholesale. But that’s the disadvantage too: The United States has the advantage, a share of their emissions reductions abroad “It’s been with us through two world wars. as it moves toward climate change law, of at lower cost than would be possible in “Further combine that with the need learning from the European experience. their home countries. But it doesn’t deliver for policy that is supportive—and we “We need to be cognizant that because the nearly enough money to induce India and know how speedily policies move through United States has 6 billion tons of emissions China to take the essential step of accept- the nation’s capitals—and then combine annually, we’ll need to go faster than Europe ing a cap on their emissions. Some kind of that with coordination on a global basis and Kyoto,” says Fusaro. “We’ll need to large financial commitment will inevitably amongst nations. I believe what we’re facing look at buildings and the transport sector be “part of the conversation on accepting a is perhaps a need for a solution that cannot (meaning air, sea, cars, trucks and buses), cap,” he says. And that will inevitably pro- possibly be fulfilled in the time in which both of which got left out in Europe.” voke furious resistance from those who we expect or want it.” He predicted passage A U.S. cap-and-trade system may also believe, as former Delaware Republican of federal climate change legislation in need to include remedies not covered by Gov. Pete Du Pont recently put it in The 2009, followed by two to four years of the Kyoto Protocol, says Fusaro, including Wall Street Journal, that developing nations debate over the details of regulation, and afforestation (planting new forests to (read China and India) basically “want to added, “You can see the glaciers are melt- absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide) and slow down the economic growth of devel- ing faster than the politicians can figure geological sequestration (burying emissions oped nations so they can gain economically.” out what to do.” deep underground). He argues that U.S. Indeed, the reluctance of the U.S. Still, limited cap-and-trade systems are law should include serious penalties for Congress to save our own economy in the already on the way, with the 10-state noncompliance, meaning at least $500 a thick of the recent credit crisis suggests Northeast Regional Greenhouse Gas ton (the penalty under the U.S. acid rain that it could be a long, hard fight before it Initiative (RGGI) going into effect on program is $2,300 per ton), unlike the takes serious action to save the rest of the January 1, 2009, and the Western Climate nominal penalty of just 100 euros (about world. Still, the climate change finance Initiative to follow. For opponents of a fed- $140) a ton in the European system. He world is betting that the lessons of Katrina, eral system, cap-and-trade is a euphemism also warns against one mistake the Iraq and the latest energy crisis will res- for cap-and-tax, and they will maneuver to Europeans managed to avoid: New Mexico onate with voters and that U.S. workers delay passage or approve a weak system Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman has pro- will not want to get left behind in the rush like RGGI, which applies only to electric posed to limit the price of carbon emis- for jobs in the new cleantech economy. utilities and mandates an emissions reduc- sions permits to $12 a ton in 2012 (up to The European success in the climate tion of just 10 percent by 2018. Many $23 a ton in 2025). That would under- change finance marketplace thus far, says businesses and investors, on the other mine the functioning of the marketplace, Esty, should teach us one really pressing hand, are pushing to get serious now. The says Fusaro. European companies are lesson: “We need to get on with it.” United States Climate Action Partnership more likely to make emissions reductions, is lobbying for a 25 percent reduction by in part, because they know they can sell 2020 and 80 percent by 2050, and it their permits for triple that price right now. includes such unlikely players as Alcoa,
Fall 2008 11 t might seem like a cruel irony: While the growth of cities world- wide requires more water resources, urban growth itself may be a factor Iin creating a drier, or different, regional climate. Take China’s Pearl River Delta region, which in recent years has gone from being Thirsty Chinese Cities a regional backwater to being the center of the global manufacturing universe. Three decades ago, this area at the southern tip Getting Drier As of Guangdong province, where the river spills into the South China Sea, was a rela- tively quiet spot, where farmers waved off mosquitoes buzzing in capacious rice Skyscrapers Rise paddies. Today the region, strategically situated just north of Hong Kong, is the By Christina Larson industrial hub of the world’s most prolific manufacturing nation—home to some 50 million people and thousands of factories churning out toothbrushes, toys, computer parts and just about everything else that can be packed in shrink-wrap and shipped around the world. The region’s new published last year in the Journal of you want rain, you need to start thinking soundtrack is a constant whir of factory Climate, found that between 1988 and 1996, about the way a city grows.” machinery, loading dock whistles and urban land cover in the Pearl River Delta It might seem as though Shenzhen construction crews building ever more increased 300 percent—the equivalent of and other fast-growing urban areas—from roads and apartment blocks on the out- paving an area the size of Rhode Island in Dubai, to Bangalore, to Lagos—sprung skirts of town. less than a decade. Meanwhile, during the In Shenzhen, one of its busiest port dry winter months (the subtropical regions, nearly everyone is from some- region’s summer is influenced by the where else—from other cities in China, Asian monsoon cycle), rainfall declined. “Cities are modifying from foreign companies and, especially, The team created a statistical model linking their own climates. If you from the countryside. More than 95 percent urban growth with winter rainfall; they of the workers on the assembly line are found that each percentage point in growth want rain, you need to estimated to have flocked from nearby correlated with a decrease of 2.44 milli- start thinking about the way villages, a familiar pattern across China, meters in rainfall. where millions of people each year move A growing body of research, conducted a city grows.” to the nation’s fast-growing cities. As they in China and elsewhere, now shows that Karen Seto settle into factory dormitories and new the way a city grows can have the effect of high-rises, then turn on the faucet for holding an umbrella, or in some cases cooking, showering and laundry, demand turning on the sprinklers, over a city. for water rises. Yet in precisely the same Though debate remains over which factors into being overnight. But to understand years that skyscrapers have soared and the (land cover conversion, urban topography how cities influence climate, it’s helpful to sky has thickened with smog, rainfall in and pollution) are most significant, scien- look closely at the process of converting the region has declined. Why? tists agree on the underlying principle: fields to factories. To untangle the connection, a team of not only are cities impacted by their Seto’s research focuses on what scien- interdisciplinary researchers compiled regional climate, they also shape it. tists call “land cover conversion” or, what readings from 16 meteorological stations “Cities are modifying their own Joni Mitchell crooned, to “put up a parking in the region, which they compared with climates,” says Karen Seto, associate maps charting urban growth, derived professor in the urban environment at from NASA satellite data. Their study, F&ES and a co-author of the study. “If The Shenzhen city skyline
Fall 2008 environment:YALE 13 Karen Seto Karen Left, an image from the NASA Landsat satellite shows areas of vegetation (red) and fallow agricultural regions (white) in Shenzhen in 1973. Right, 28 years later, new urban regions (dark blue grids) and new urban development (bright white) proliferate.
lot.” When a forest, prairie or wetland— approaches the question from a back- particles impedes the formation of rain- or even a sand dune or arctic tundra—is ground in meteorology. He has studied drops. Daniel Rosenfeld, a professor at the replaced by asphalt and concrete, the rainfall patterns near Atlanta, Ga.—a Institute of Earth Sciences at Hebrew ground’s ability to absorb and retain mois- region recently pinched by water short- University in Jerusalem, is the lead author ture changes. Simply put, water seeps into ages—and focused, among other things, of a paper on pollution and precipitation soil (to different degrees depending on the on how air circulates around urban that was published in the journal Science soil) but washes off pavement. At the terrain. “Visualize wind blowing straight in September. Over a 50-year period, same time, sidewalks and other urban over wheat fields in Kansas,” he says. his data show that rainfall over the surfaces absorb sunlight, whereas natural “Now imagine low-level winds blowing mountains near Xi’an, a congested city in foliage reflects it. This contributes to the around city skyscrapers. Because of the central China, has decreased 20 percent. familiar “urban heat island” effect, where structure of buildings in a city, the air is “This is a serious problem for areas where temperatures in a city exceed those in the more turbulent.” The combination of water availability is scarce,” he says, nearby countryside. Of course, not all turbulent air, elevated temperatures and noting that many of today’s fastest- newly built parking lots have the same other factors can trigger more dramatic growing regions, including much of the effect. “The types of landscapes that were weather patterns, including more frequent Middle East, northern China and Africa, converted [to pavement] have an impact,” and abrupt rainstorms over and downwind are especially susceptible. she says. “What areas were lost? And of cities. “What appear to be random While scientists focus on different what was that land previously? Was that thunderstorms around cities aren’t so aspects of the feedback loop between land formerly devoted to agriculture, or random at all,” he says. cities and climate, they agree that planners forest, or desert? Did the trees and ground In the case of China’s Pearl River Delta, have some control over the outcomes. absorb a lot of water, or not?” she asks, where dwindling precipitation is the over- Rosenfeld urges tighter emissions controls; noting that planners do have a choice arching trend, an additional factor may be new research “should act as a red light,” where to locate new interstates and resi- at work: pollution. Rapid development or warning, to all of those responsible for dential communities. has brought billowing smog, also known controlling the amounts of pollution we Marshall Shepherd, a professor of as the presence of airborne “aerosols,” release into the atmosphere.” Shepherd atmospheric sciences at the University of which affects the way clouds “seed” to recommends evaluating how urban areas Georgia and an editor of the Journal of form rain. Some aerosols are necessary to influence rainfall when deciding where to Applied Meteorology and Climatology, trigger showers, but an oversaturation of build reservoirs.
14 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Seto offers more out-of-the-box pro- underlying bedrock and its proximity to little of this knowledge is used by planners posals that are not so much refinements the surface.” on a daily basis.” The collaboration has of existing planning practices as they are Now, as planners must account for the given him a greater appreciation for the new ways to envision a metropolis. Today’s impact of urban growth on climate, it may concerns of city officials, helping him to cities, seen from an airplane, she notes, be time to return to more site-specific tailor his advice. City planners, who must are shaped like a dinner plate or, perhaps, approaches—not for nostalgic reasons but consider the short-term needs of their a sprawling amoeba. As such, the urban as a matter of common sense in mapping constituents, are in general not versed in area is a contiguous paved region that the future. “A century ago, people lost ecology and climate science. Likewise, extends outward from a defined center. centuries of knowledge about how to ecologists largely are not trained in what But a new city—in China and elsewhere, adapt to climate when we began using issues city planners must confront. “To new cities are being built virtually from technology to overcome natural barriers,” work together successfully, you have to be scratch—could be mapped as a series of says Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez, a professor very strategic in how you use these people’s concentric circles or as a checkerboard, of environmental sciences at the University time, how to present conclusions,” he alternating office parks with forest parks. of California, Riverside. “But not every says. “There needs to be someone who This could augment or disperse the heat city has to strive to look like Los Angeles can act as an interface between the two island effect, the ground’s ability to retain or New York today.” domains of knowledge.” moisture and the impact of pollution. Or, For the last decade, Sánchez-Rodríguez a city could be designed with several has been at the forefront of efforts to bring rban density, and the rising small centers—think of a constellation of science to bear on real-world decision- global middle class moving to mini-downtowns—with residential areas, making. Among other projects, he has swelling cities, has lately gotten business districts and public transporta- advised planners in Tijuana, Mexico, U a bad rap—the “crowded” part tion planned accordingly. “If you have to which a decade ago was devastated by of Thomas Friedman’s book title warning lay down 1,000 square kilometers of flooding caused by El Niño. “A lot of that the Earth is becoming Hot, Flat, and urban development,” she asks, “where are knowledge has already been generated Crowded. But because Shenzhen and you going to put it?” about environmental planning and how Manhattan aren’t likely to be torn down cities affect climate,” he says, “and yet so anytime soon, it may be helpful to rejig- ne of the remarkable things you notice if you travel around the world today is that older build- O ings—Chinese courtyards, Venetian canals, Dutch windmills, Iranian wind towers—all look different. But newer structures, with glass and steel exteriors and air-conditioned lobbies, all look rela- tively the same. At one time architecture was adapted for local topography and climate; today this is far less true. The same pattern of regional adaptation once held true for urban planning writ large. Planners took advantage of resources at hand and sought particular fixes to dis- tinct problems, mindful of each region’s natural margin for error. “The ancient Greeks were masters of matching the buildings, squares and streets of the city to its topography,” wrote MIT’s Anne Whiston
Spirn in her classic history of urban plan- Seto Karen ning, The Granite Garden. “New York City Looking south toward Hong Kong across the Sham Chun River. The wetlands on the far owes the distinctive skyscraper skyline of side of the river are in Hong Kong. The city on the near side of the river is Shenzhen, Manhattan Island to the strength of the which was transformed from a small fishing village into a metropolis in less than 30 years.
Fall 2008 15 ger our thinking. “Urban areas should be where environmental policy starts, not where it ends,” says Margaret O’Mara, a visiting assistant professor of urban history at the University of Washington. “Scientists and environmental planners need to consider landscapes like Rio de Fund to Address Janeiro, not only Amazon rainforests.” She points out that there may be opportunities in inevitable urban growth, including the possibility of scaling up Downside of green-friendly technologies that urban density allows. It will be a simpler matter, for instance, to install new units designed to calibrate household energy usage, or China’s Boom recycle wastewater, in a towering Beijing apartment complex than in 2,000 single- family homes. “We need to think of cities By Jon Luoma not only as environmental problems, but as a component of environmental solu- tions; they have to be,” says O’Mara. In the weeks leading up to the pageantry and The fast-rising skylines in regions like the Pearl River Delta—and the recognition athletic triumph of the 2008 summer Olympics of the impact they have on climate—mean neither a death sentence nor deliverance, in Beijing, one troubling image predominated: but must be seen as a force, like gravity, that scientists and planners should find a way to work with wisely. Or, as The air so polluted it looked like cumulonimbus had Granite Garden put it nearly 25 years ago: “Civilizations and governments rise and descended on the city. Thanks to a temporary fall; traditions, values, and policies change; but the natural environment of each city government shutdown of some regional industries, remains an enduring framework within which the human community builds.” along with severe restrictions on driving, air pollution decreased and cleaner skies arrived in time for the Games in August. But the pre-Olympic images remain as reminders of what James Fallows, writing in The Atlantic Monthly, has called “the environmental damage that is the most shocking side effect of China’s economic miracle.”
16 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies To help address the troubling environ- mental downside of China’s economic boom, an anonymous donor has awarded Yale a $2 million dollar gift to help create an Asia Environment Fund at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES). The fund will support research, policy, exchange and outreach efforts aimed at some of China’s most pressing environmental problems. At the urgent center of that focus will be the crisis that is not only China’s, or Asia’s, but the entire world’s—global warming. “The enormous expansion of the human enterprise in Asia has brought us to the threshold of a new era in which environmental management must quickly emerge as a top priority of governments and citizens everywhere,” said F&ES Dean Gus Speth. “The importance of focusing extensively on environmental issues as they relate to China cannot be overstated, both for the health of the Chinese people and the health of the planet.” In 2008, China moved past the United States as the single-largest carbon dioxide emitter in the world, with coal consumption James Yang there soaring at a rate of 20 percent per year and reports of new coal-fired power years—they cannot measure responses financial and environmental benefits. For plants going up at a rate of one every over shorter time frames, such as weeks or instance, a refinery’s sulfur waste might week or two. But power plant emissions days or an event as brief as a rain shower. become raw material for an agricultural are only a piece of a larger and still So Lee and his colleagues are deploying company’s fertilizer. Or waste heat from a incompletely understood puzzle about the arrays of state-of-the art instruments, power plant might provide space heating best way to address China’s contribution including tunable diode laser analyzers. for a nearby factory. Ideally, an entire net- to global warming. These devices can measure short-term work of industries can be linked for optimal “Farming is the single most important changes not only in carbon dioxide, but benefits. The idea could be compared land use type in China, and it plays a huge also in methane and nitrous oxide, which with the symbiosis and other mutual role in the future trajectory of the Chinese are also greenhouse gases. The researchers benefits that organisms enjoy in natural greenhouse gas portfolio,” says Xuhui have already deployed their analyzer arrays ecosystems, notes Chertow. Lee, professor of meteorology at F&ES. in fields of wheat, maize, cotton and Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the With support from the fund, Lee’s soybeans on the plains of northern China, Yale Project on Climate Change, points research team will expand studies aimed at and they plan to add at least one additional out that not only is booming China now finding the best ways to minimize climate array on a rice paddy, an agricultural the leader in carbon dioxide emissions, change while sustaining food production. landscape vital to Asian agriculture. booming Asian neighbor India is fourth. They will compare, for example, greenhouse Marian Chertow, Ph.D. ’00, associate Combined, he says, the two nations now gas emissions from traditional farming professor of industrial environmental generate one quarter of all the world’s practices and those from industrialized management, is researching energy and carbon dioxide emissions, “a proportion,” approaches. resource use and exchange among compa- he says, “that is only projected to rise.” According to Lee, traditional ecological nies located in large Chinese industrial (Second-place United States, with a smaller field studies—sampling soils and vegetation parks. This work focuses on how diverse population, still holds the dubious title of —will provide some answers. But although industries can better use and exchange leader in per capita emissions.) these methods can detect changes over energy, raw materials and water and And yet, he notes, little is known longer periods of time—months or process wastes in ways that provide both about public perceptions about global
Fall 2008 17 warming among the 2.5 billion people in According to Christine Kim, project already published several articles focused the two countries, including the degree to manager for the EPI, the analysis now on China. Correspondent Christina Larson, which the public understands the great under way for China will break down who is based part of the year in Beijing, risks—ranging from flooding from rising environmental performance province by had filed two of four reports focusing on seas to agricultural damage from drought— province. One major thrust is to provide Chinese environmentalists. Orville Schell, that this global problem poses to their provincial and federal governments with director of the Center on U.S.-China own nations. Nor is much known about the information that can help them tailor Relations at the Asia Society, had authored degree to which people in the two nations environmental policies to fit specific needs. a detailed opinion piece, “The U.S. and would favor government policies to address “Different areas have somewhat differ- China: Common Ground on Climate,” on the global problem or be willing to make ent problems and can’t employ the same why the United States and China must sacrifices themselves. To find answers, the solutions,” says Kim. For example, she become partners on global warming. Yale Project on Climate Change plans to says that air pollution sources can differ “Several of our articles have already collaborate with local pollsters to conduct widely from region to region. A perform- been linked to or cited by Chinese web- “large, nationally representative surveys” ance index could guide strategies for allo- sites and publications,” says Editor Roger about global warming in both nations, the cating resources or for setting suitable air Cohn. And he notes that Yale Environment first of their kind, says Leiserowitz. quality policies or emission regulations. 360 has established an ongoing relation- The Yale Center for Environmental The donors who provided the gift at ship with the Chinese Web publication Law & Policy will be compiling a subna- the core of the Asia Environment Fund China Dialogue, which has republished tional “Environmental Performance said they were motivated in part by Yale’s several Yale Environment 360 pieces in Index” (EPI) specifically tailored for history of international exchange, education both English and Mandarin. China. Collaborating with Columbia and “catalysis and influence.” They cited “We’re commissioning articles written University, the center in 2008 issued the the “opportunities for scholarship, learn- by Chinese journalists as well,” says latest international EPI, which ranked the ing and debate” in Yale’s World Fellows Cohn. “China Dialogue will be acting as nations of the world based on how they Program, which brings young leaders the intermediary, translating the articles scored on a wide range of environmental from around the globe to the university. into English and handling the journalists’ In that spirit, Xuhui Lee has developed a interactions with editors here at Yale.” lecture series for the current academic year This sort of cooperation with Chinese “The importance of at Yale featuring Chinese environmental and other Asian entities permeates the experts, who are exploring the environ- entire array of programs that will benefit focusing extensively on mental ramifications of their nation’s from the fund. Chertow’s industrial- environmental issues as economic boom, with a focus on carbon symbiosis project, for instance, is being emissions, as well as on the protection conducting in collaboration with China’s they relate to China of biodiversity and natural resources. Tsinghua University, National Center for cannot be overstated, The fund has also provided three years Innovation Research on Circular Economy of support for an environmental leader- at Nankai University, as well as the National both for the health of the ship education program that will bring University of Singapore. The Chinese Chinese people and political leaders and local officials to Yale Academy of Environmental Planning is a for intensive study of urban planning and key collaborator on the EPI project. the health of the planet.” development. This project is administered China expert Orville Schell’s Yale by the Environment and Sustainable Environment 360 commentary on global Dean Gus Speth Development Leadership Program (ESDLP), warming highlights the urgency of just a joint venture of F&ES and China’s the sort of collaboration the new Asia Tsinghua University. Environment Fund is spurring. Of the protection issues, from the provision of In terms of public outreach, the new United States and China, he writes: “The sanitary water to protection of agricultural magazine, Yale Environment 360, published consequences of rapidly escalating emis- land and biodiversity. Climate change- online and aimed at an international audi- sions from both nations are now beginning related issues constituted 25 percent of ence, has been able to expand its coverage to be increasingly evident in such phe- the total score. (Of 149 nations ranked, of China and Asia as a whole. The Web nomena as melting glaciers, changing wealthy Switzerland, Norway and Sweden magazine, which covers the gamut of weather patterns and the loss of Arctic sea were on top; the African nations of Sierra environmental issues, got off to a rousing ice. Whatever else may divide us, and Leone, Angola and Niger came out at the start with nearly 1.5 million “hits” in the there is much, we will be unable to escape bottom. The United States was 39th and first 11 weeks after its July 2008 launch. the consequences of each other’s actions China was 105th.) By early September, the magazine had on climate change.”
18 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies By Strachan Donnelley
ldo Leopold is the reigning patron saint of American conser- vation. His Land Ethic, the A culmination of the many stories and essays of A Sand County Almanac, defines the human good and bad, right and wrong, in terms of our protection and promotion of the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. He enjoins us to become members and plain citizens, rather than conquerors, of the land. By land and biotic community he means much the same thing: the abiotic and biotic elements, including flora and fauna (above and below ground), of the ecosphere and the ecosystems in which we humans inescapably live. This natural biotic community involves its own temporally Strachan Donnelley is shown here fishing at his family’s plantation in South Carolina. deep, evolutionary past and future. That this mode of citizenship embraces our fundamental moral status is clear and straightforward to Leopold and, indeed, For Strachan Donnelley, seems to fit well with our natural Darwinian origins and ongoing roots in nature. (Our Hunting Was Being Fully Human moral status rests, in part, on developed and circumscribed capacities of freedom, responsibility and recognition of innumer- Both Yale and the environment lost a great friend when Strachan Donnelley passed away able values, human and other.) Nevertheless, on July 12, 2008. Leopold realized that the Land Ethic is a I feel the void still. Strachan and I were classmates and friends at Yale (’64). We called further extension and broadening of human him Joe then, and we were in the same fraternity and “secret” society. Though we had stayed ethics as it has culturally and historically in touch over the years, we became truly close again after I began as dean in 1999. I had evolved. The Land Ethic as a practical known Strachan as an environmental champion, but I quickly discovered Strachan the ethic of human communities was for the generous donor, Strachan the academic, Strachan the sportsman and Strachan the fellow mid-20th century a civic ethics of the part-time South Carolinian. future. In our early 21st century, it still is. The Chicago Tribune captured his many sides when it wrote that the world had lost a Few, if any, of us recognize the full reaches “nature-loving philanthropist and fly-fishing philosopher.” of our biotic responsibilities to ourselves When I began as dean, I created the F&ES New Century Fund to help get us off to a fast and our Earthly home. This is a major cul- start. Before I could start fundraising for it, I noticed that it had $1 million in it—from tural and moral problem of our times. Strachan. Other major gifts from Strachan to support scholarships for our students were Why has it been so difficult to recognize soon to follow. ourselves as full-blown, charter members of Strachan did love to fish, but he also really loved hunting. His commitment to conservation, the biotic community, with all the innu- his writings about Darwin and Leopold and his determination to be agent provocateur to those merable benefits, burdens and attendant who “just don’t get it” were animated by seeing the ducks come in against a brightening sky. moral obligations that go along with such So it is fitting that as part of our tribute to Strachan we publish here one of Strachan’s membership? (We, along with all natural provocative essays on these themes. He wrote “Hunting Hennepin’s Windblown Bottom” in organisms, are undeniably “wild ones,” born 2006 as part of his work as founder and president of the Center for Humans and Nature, an of evolutionary and ecological processes.) outstanding organization that he spent his last months ensuring would carry on. Brooke Why do we characteristically consider our- Hecht ’03 is now its acting president. —Dean Gus Speth selves outside of nature? Further, why was Leopold himself so prescient and farsighted
Fall 2008 19 about our fundamental status in the minded readers? jovial, if not ribald, and there were many scheme of things? Others knew their I will not defend Leopold by quoting, Isa Turner house stories, including guests Darwin and evolutionary biology, with explicating or interpreting chapter and peeing out upstairs windows because it their seeming implications—philosophical verse of A Sand County Almanac. Such a was too cold to go downstairs to the bath- and moral. critical, academic enterprise would not room. There was also a weekend with an I think a clue to Leopold’s moral forcibly get to the bottom of the matter. eccentric cousin, Thorne, who bought a pioneering and originality can be found in Rather, I will heed Leopold’s example and new car every six months (he had a Lancia A Sand County Almanac and precisely in tell my own stories. In particular, I revisit sports car at the time), driving with his passages which trouble so many of his my own youth and early days of duck head out the window as we left for readers and sympathetic critics. Leopold hunting near Hennepin, Ill., which is in a Windblown Bottom in the pre-dawn unapologetically tells several stories of historical, storied duck-hunting and darkness, cursing his windshield wipers hunting and fishing, including the shooting decoy-carving area along the Illinois for not working. I mentioned that the of the wild mother wolf in “Thinking Like River—the home of the Illinois River windows were merely fogged on the inside, a Mountain,” from which he gained inti- carvers Robert Elliston, Charles Perdew wiped my side, and looked at the road mations of the importance of large predators and others who served duck hunters, ahead. Cousin Thorne would have none to their ecosystems. Leopold describes private and market, of the late 19th and of my youthful suggestion and braved the killing his first wild (black) duck; his early 20th centuries. Nearby Hennepin six-mile ride in a cold morning wind. crafty luring, hooking and landing of a are Henry, LaSalle, Peru and other rural We always had breakfast at 5 a.m., large wild brook trout; his love of autumn towns, which, like Cairo further south, were assigned a black lunch pail with woodcock hunting, as well as his delight have their own uniquely Illinoisan and coffee and sandwiches, each painted with in their springtime mating dance. (He Midwestern pronunciations. My father a name of a dog (my favorite was “Joe”), learned to take only so many woodcock owned a farm with two small lakes in and proceeded to the farm and the modest in the fall as to allow enough dancers for Hennepin, meant for fall duck hunting. Windblown Bottoms clubhouse. We were The farm was named Windblown Bottom. guided along the way by blinking red My early duck hunting had its dis- lights of a nearby coal power plant. Few, if any, of us recognize tinctly human hues. I started hunting when Once at the farm, we quickly put on I was 8, 10 or 12—I cannot remember hip boots. Day was coming, and we needed the full reaches of our biotic exactly—under the rigorous tutelage of to be in the duck blinds before dawn. We my father. I was given a single-barreled, drove in the darkness past the power responsibilities to ourselves 20-gauge shotgun with a hammer cock. I plant, which was next to the river, to and our Earthly home. This was to learn gun safety and the art of duck boats and then headed for the blinds shooting before moving on to double- along shallow channels. is a major cultural and barreled or pump shotguns, which every- Often it was cold—Midwestern cold— one else used. with ice on the lake, which we occasion- moral problem of our times. Family weekend trips to Hennepin ally had to break to get to the blinds. In included my mother, several dogs the dark, just ahead of us, flocks and (Labrador Retrievers), friends of my parents flocks of wild ducks—mallards, black and occasionally my brother, Elliott, four ducks, teal, pintail and more—would take the ensuing spring—a fundamental years older and already an accomplished off into the dark sky. The landscape was insight for any adequate conservation hunter. We always stayed at the widow Isa all wildness and sounds of silence. We ethics.) Despite the robust moral demands Turner’s house in Hennepin, which though humans were but shadowy creatures. We of the Land Ethic, Leopold never condemns the county seat, was a small town, every- would break a hole in the ice in front of hunting and fishing, though he does claim one knowing—and watching—everyone the blind, put out the duck decoys, climb them to be atavistic sport. Why this moral else. For dinner, we invariably went to the into the blind and await the light of dawn silence? So question many of Leopold’s Ranch House, the local supper club, and returning ducks. sympathizers and critics alike. Is this a where we were joined by Paul, a local After dawn and the early morning sign of moral immaturity or lack of insight? contractor, and Buttons, the local police return flight of ducks (if there was one), Or, rather, is there not something deeper chief, and their families. Paul and Buttons we would sit back in the blinds and scan and more nuanced afoot, something that were our hunting guides, both seasoned the lake for flocks of mallards, black escapes Leopold’s more urban or polis- duck callers. The dinners were lively, ducks and swift-moving bluewing teal.
20 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies On rare occasions, high-flying pintail and, after a number of swings over the would come over the lake. Mere specks in lake, they lit in the water in front of me. I the sky, the pintail would set and cup cannot remember whether I shot or not. their wings, masterfully carving their way No matter. I, all by myself, had decoyed down to the water. Their commanding wild birds on their home turf, a solitary performance transformed the natural bottomland lake along the Illinois River. I landscape of the lake and its surroundings was visited by a feeling of excitement into a background stage for their art. never before experienced. (Such pintail shows are always magical.) Enough of youthful memories and Other times, we settled for watching stories. What do they mean? What relation butterflies and small song birds. do they have to recognizing our member- I remember well the first duck that I ship in Leopold’s biotic community? A lot, I shot. I was hunting with my father. It was think, and certainly worth exploring. Were bitterly cold, 8 degrees Fahrenheit, with a these hunting trips introductions to nature 40-mph wind. A single duck came in and its wildness (here, wild ducks)? Yes. from the right side of the blind, flying Were these trips further bondings with downwind. I stuck my gun out the left my family, with a new, enhanced familial side and shot. The bird dropped dead in status? Yes. Now I could bring something the water and floated against the ice. It of my own to the table. Did I feel remorse was an American goldeneye. (It is the and pangs of guilt when I shot the ducks only goldeneye I have ever seen while and looked at their unimaginably beauti- hunting.) I looked at my father. As I ful, feathered forms lifeless on the floor of remember, neither of us said a thing. the blind? Yes. (Hunter’s emotions are Another time, I was shooting with my decidedly not simple.) mother, Mimi. She was always more inter- But why did duck hunting, including ested in the dogs, especially petting her killing the birds, not morally repel me favorite female Labrador, Widgeon, than then? And why does it not to this day, in shooting. A flock of teal landed in the though I have lost the youthful trigger decoys. I got up, the birds flushed and I itch? In particular, why did pothole hunt- shot. Three teal fell into the water. ing and, especially, calling the ducks to Looking up from Widgeon, Mimi shouted, the blind so deeply stir me? “Great shot!,” and sent Widgeon out to At the time, the experiences were retrieve the birds. I looked around the emotionally, if not spiritually, deep, lake, then back at the teal in the water, though more or less mindless. But that filled with an adolescent son’s pride. was over 50 years ago. For me, they were A curious thing characteristically pre-Darwinian and pre-Leopoldian. Now, I would happen as the days warmed up. I can hazard a guess at what was happening would leave the blind in my hip boots to me. I was experiencing deep, well- and wander alone, wading amid the wil- honed predator instincts, interests and lows, looking for potholes and wounded satisfactions. I was implicated in predator- ducks. Often I found them. They would prey relations that psychologically and flush and, with luck, I would shoot them behaviorally bound me to natural land- and tuck them in my hunting coat. scapes, to evolutionary and ecological On one such excursion, I wandered time and space. Never again could I deny over to the nearby, smaller lake and an aboriginal membership in historically climbed into an empty blind. I was alone, deep biotic communities. with no decoys, but I did have a duck Leopold could not live without wild call. (I was very much the rookie duck things. Neither can I. Perhaps for both of caller.) A flight of 40 or so mallards flew us, hunting and fishing afforded an over. I called. They turned. I kept calling continued on page 43 Strachan Donnelley
Fall 2008 21 for that purpose through special funding mechanisms such as the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, often called the Duck Stamp, a federal water- fowl-hunting license that raises about $25 million each year specifically to buy land for refuges. This may be partly because the NWRS’ resources are already stretched thin, but it’s also because its realty office has been gutted and the acquisition process has become onerous under the current Sandhill cranes standing in the wetlands at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife administration’s Interior Department. Refuge, New Mexico, at sunset. The absence of law enforcement has become a critical concern. A 2005 report by the International Association of Chiefs Government Report Finds Wildlife of Police recommended a corps of at least 845 officers for the NWRS, but about 245 now attempt to cover the entire system— Refuges Falling Into Neglect an average of one officer for every 400,000 acres. In Alaska, the Arctic, Kanuti and ince 1903, when Theodore in Funding, Staffing, and Other Factors Yukon Flats refuges share one officer for Roosevelt established the first Create Concerns About Future 30 million acres, an area bigger than wildlife refuge in Florida, the Sustainability.” The report concluded: “In Pennsylvania. (They also share one main- S National Wildlife Refuge System light of continuing federal fiscal constraints tenance worker.) Unsurprisingly, refuge (NWRS) has grown to 548 refuges that and an ever-expanding list of challenges managers report worries about public comprise more than 97 million acres— facing refuges, maintaining the refuge safety caused by intrusions into restricted 13 million more than in the national park system as envisioned in law—where the areas by hunters and photographers, system. These places vary in size, from the biological integrity, diversity and environ- poaching, wildlife trafficking, vandalism, half-acre Mille Lacs National Wildlife mental health of the refuge system are drunkenness, destruction caused by tran- Refuge in Minnesota to the 19.3 million- maintained, priority visitor services are sient illegal immigrants and even illegal acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and provided, and the strategic growth of the drug labs. they encompass forests, marshes, tundra, system is continued—may be difficult.” No wonder a survey of all refuge estuaries, deserts and coral reefs. There Even basic upkeep has been cut past managers in 2007 by Public Employees are refuges in all 50 states, some in wilder- the bone. The price tag for deferred main- for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) ness and some within sight of skyscrapers. tenance on buildings, equipment, dikes and found that nearly two-thirds of them They are the only federal lands where other essentials has reached $2.48 billion, believe the system isn’t meeting its mission. conservation and wildlife, including about according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife An even higher percentage (67 percent) 260 species listed as endangered or threat- Service, which administers the NWRS in the said they were not “optimistic about the ened, take statutory precedence over other Department of the Interior. In May 2008, an future of the refuge system.” They rated uses such as recreation, mining, forestry, alarming report by the Cooperative morale as either poor (65 percent) or “at farming and grazing. Alliance for Refuge Enhancement (CARE), an all-time low” (26 percent). Yet the system is teetering because of a consortium of 22 large conservation and In fiscal year 2008, a few Congressional severe funding shortages. One-third of all wildlife organizations, whose members leaders pushed through a budget increase refuges are now unstaffed; half of them no range from the Audubon Society to the for refuges of $36 million, to $434 million. longer have a staff biologist. None have National Rifle Association, found that (By comparison, the budget for the National enough personnel and money to achieve because refuge personnel are overwhelmed Park Service is about $2.4 billion.) Congress their mandated missions—to protect, with other duties, invasive species have seems to be waking up to the plight of monitor and manage wildlife and habitat claimed more than 2 million acres, crowd- refuges and may give them another and to run recreational and environmental ing out native plants important to wildlife, increase in fiscal year 2009, against the programs. including some endangered species, for White House’s wishes, but even another In September the Government forage, nesting and protection. $36 million raise wouldn’t be near enough Accountability Office (GAO) published a The NWRS has added little habitat in to catch up. The system’s backlog for report on the refuge system titled “Changes recent years, though money is available operations—staff, equipment and projects
22 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies considered essential—is now $1 billion. refuges—140 of them in the last five years. get ensnared. The society budgets CARE estimates that the refuge system These groups raise funds for programs and $120,000 a year for programs and other can’t meet its mission without a minimum also take up some of the slack caused by needs at the refuge. “This all allows the annual budget of $765 million. staffing cutbacks. “To put it into perspec- refuge to use its money for other things,” How did refuges get into this fix? tive,” says Evan Hirsche, NWRA’s president, says Cassell. Gene Hocutt has some theories. He spent “the volunteer force on refuges is approxi- “Ding” Darling is one of the system’s 29 years with the NWRS and worked on mately 30,000 people, and they are con- most fortunate refuges, but it nevertheless five refuges, mostly as refuge manager. tributing 20 percent of the work being lacks the funds to counteract invasive He’s now refuge keeper for PEER, which done.” That work is valued at $25 million species and polluted water released from keeps him in touch with refuge personnel per year, according to the GAO. This Lake Okeechobee or to restore the area all over the country. “Of all the federal growing volunteerism, adds Hirsche, damaged by Hurricane Charlie in 2004. land management agencies,” he says, “the “ultimately translates into political sup- Most refuges wish their list of problems National Wildlife Refuge System has always port, and the core message is, ‘These was so short. been the poor stepchild in terms of dollars, places need more money.’” “The society equates to 11 full-time staff and visibility.” The JN “Ding” Darling National employees, which is absolutely huge,” That lack of visibility, he believes, led Wildlife Refuge in Sanibel, Fla., has bene- says Rob Jess, who was the refuge manager directly to a lack of funding. The NWRS’ fited tremendously from the 1,500 members at “Ding” Darling for six years, before he narrow focus on wildlife and habitat of its wildlife society. That volunteer assumed the same position at Alaska’s fostered an exceptional conservation group’s president, Susan Cassell, said the Yukon Flats a year ago. “But that refuge is and research organization but ignored a society raised $1.5 million to build a new unique.” He points out that the Sanibel crucial factor—the public. Refuges were education center and another $1.5 million refuge has a staff of 15 for 6,000 acres; almost invisible even in their own com- to fill it with exhibits and also built a Yukon Flats has 14 for 9.5 million. Sanibel munities. has three maintenance staff members, and “People who grew up on a farm, grew Yukon Flats shares one person with two up hunting, these are people who went “Refuge system administra- other huge refuges. “I have friends who into resource management years ago,” run some national parks here in Alaska,” says Hocutt. “They weren’t used to dealing tive reporting has reached says Jess, “and they each have 30 mainte- with politicians and chambers of commerce, nance people.” networking and communicating. They an unbalanced and critical According to the studies by both the thought, ‘I’m just going out with the GAO and MIS, though staff has been cut wildlife and do science.’ Wake up! You’ve level and is diverting time throughout the NWRS, responsibilities got to make a connection with the public.” and resources away from have increased, especially paperwork. That’s slowly happening. In June “Refuge system administrative reporting 2008, Management Systems International mission-critical activities.” has reached an unbalanced and critical (MIS) released an independent report on level,” says the MIS report, “and is diverting refuges commissioned by the Fish & Management Systems International time and resources away from mission- Wildlife Service. MIS rated the refuge critical activities.” system “highly effective” in only one key “To be honest, what’s being squeezed area—its partnerships with volunteers, presentation pavilion and an observation out are the resources themselves,” says community support groups (“friends”) tower. It buses 10,000 children to the refuge Jess, “because it’s the one thing we can and other outside organizations. Twenty every year for environmental education control. Surveys for sheep, caribou, grizzly years ago only a few million people visited and gives five grants of $5,000 each to and black bear; habitat work; prescribed refuges each year, most of them hunters teachers doing environmental projects. burning—all the things that we should be and birdwatchers. Now 37 million visit for It also awards five scholarships a year to doing are going away. We either do it on a spectrum of outdoor interests, including college students studying biology or envi- our own time or it doesn’t get done. So visits by about 800,000 schoolchildren for ronmental sciences. we’re working on Saturdays, working 12- environmental programs. The number of Volunteers run the refuge’s bookstore, hour days instead of eight. People are very friends groups also has increased to 250 staff the education desk, answer questions resource-oriented here and very passionate.” from 75 in 1994. out in the refuge and run free public Yukon Flats is a crucial nesting area The National Wildlife Refuge events. (More than 800,000 people visit for about 2 million ducks, so that’s where Association (NWRA), an advocacy organ- this popular refuge every year.) Volunteers Jess concentrates his resources. “Our ization, has been helping communities also do bird counts and pull fishing line moose populations are declining, and we establish volunteer groups at local out of mangroves so that waterfowl don’t aren’t able to study that like we would
Fall 2008 23 like to,” he says. “We aren’t able to study established,” he says, “people had a fairly them into thinking along lines more like the potential for the reintroduction of the utilitarian view of what wildlife mattered, the rest of the conservation world, inte- woodland bison. We aren’t even able to and they targeted a small set of species grating wildlife management across make a good-enough effort on ducks. like a laser beam. For instance, a lot of species and larger areas.” Some are declining and some are okay, refuges have been heavily modified and Some people think the refuge system and we aren’t sure why. Managers at all managed to benefit migratory waterfowl. can’t thrive until it becomes a separate refuges have to pick and choose species. And they have shown how important it is agency. That’s the goal of the Blue Goose We will get to the point where it’s ‘Do we to support migratory species and how Alliance, which was started by a number allow the polar bear to die off to save successful you can be. But it’s the kind of of former employees of the NWRS and three other species?’” wildlife management that people were Fish & Wildlife Service. “If Congress was His point is echoed in the GAO talking about in the early to middle 20th creating the refuge system today,” says report: “Fish & Wildlife Service has had century, when the connections among William Reffalt, a former chief of the to make trade-offs among refuges with different groups of wildlife either weren’t NWRS who spent 24 years with the Fish regard to which habitat will be monitored and maintained, which visitor services will be offered, and which refuges will receive adequate law enforcement coverage.” Hard choices have also shaped NWRS’ organization. In the name of efficiency, groups of refuges get “complexed,” which consolidates staff and resources at one refuge and leaves others mothballed, with only occasional monitoring. “What it means is that once every two weeks somebody goes to make sure that nobody has burned the buildings down,” says Hocutt. He once managed a group of refuges that included two in Massachusetts, one in New Hampshire, one near Charlestown, R.I., and the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge on the Connecticut coast. “And I’m managing these?” he asks. “When pigs fly. I’m just calling the police when
something goes wrong.” Association Refuge National Wildlife Meanwhile, wildlife can fall through Vandalism in refuges, like the ransacking that occurred recently in this office in the cracks. After the Wallkill National the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, is on the increase. Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey was slated to lose its manager and go unstaffed, the understood or weren’t in the foreground. I & Wildlife Service, “there’s no way anyone refuge’s friends group brought in a volun- work on amphibians, for example, and would suggest that it shouldn’t be a separate teer biologist who found endangered much of what happens in wildlife refuges agency, because of its size and complexity Indiana bats living there. “The system is detrimental to them—dredging and and reach. But because it’s an historical doesn’t have the resources to catalogue damming.” artifact that started small, it didn’t happen.” and monitor and know what they have,” Skelly noticed a different attitude Stuffed inside the Fish & Wildlife says Hirsche. “It’s not their fault; they recently when he was asked to consult on Service, which already has too much to don’t have the money to do it. But when the planning process for the Silvio O. do, refuges often get pushed to the end of we don’t even know what’s on our Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge. the line. “The regional directors seem to refuges, it’s awfully hard to make good It extends throughout the Connecticut think they can take care of refuges almost management decisions.” River watershed, which connects Vermont, in their spare time,” says Reffalt. “We The NWRS also needs to widen its New Hampshire, Massachusetts and believe that a separate refuge agency perspective beyond waterfowl and ungu- Connecticut. “They’re acquiring properties could make decisions to keep the system lates, says David Skelly, F&ES professor to protect watersheds and drainages and healthy rather than caving in to Fish & of ecology. “When these refuges were streams,” says Skelly, “which could get Wildlife Service needs.”
24 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Aside from low funding and low status, the NWRS faces several other issues. Development is encroaching on many refuges that were once in rural areas, for instance, and President Bush and others want to drill in refuges such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Yukon Flats. Reffalt, Hocutt and others also worry about the use of so-called annual funding MEMO TO PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA: agreements (AFAs) under the Indian Self- Determination and Education Assistance Act, which allows tribes to apply for ‘Sustainability’ Key authority over many functions at refuges and national parks. Political appointees in to Energy Policy the Interior Department pressured the Fish & Wildlife Service to sign the first By Melinda Tuhus extensive AFA in July 2005. It gave the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) half the duties at the National ith the price of gasoline and crude oil at historic Bison Range Wildlife Refuge in Montana highs and climate change an increasingly serious despite a petition by more than 100 refuge threat to the global environment, President-elect managers who called the arrangement W Barack Obama will have an historic opportunity to unworkable. In December 2006, the Fish remake the world’s largest economy into a leader on alternative & Wildlife Service terminated the agree- energy. When asked what advice they would give to the next ment, citing CSKT’s multiple failures to administration, several F&ES professors identified “sustainability” perform duties, supply qualified personnel as the key to a viable long-term energy policy. and account for funds. Nevertheless, two Paul Anastas, founding director of the Center for Green weeks later the Interior Department Chemistry and Green Engineering, says that sustainability, which stepped in again and ordered the Fish & he defines as “meeting the needs of the current generation while Wildlife Service to renegotiate the agree- preserving the ability of future generations to meet their needs,” ment. The new AFA, signed in June and must undergird any forward-looking energy policy. in effect since October 1, transfers all jobs To determine sustainability, Anastas says, all aspects of an to CSKT, with the exception of a refuge energy source must be taken into account through sustainable- manager and a deputy. Other tribes are design principles. “In the case of solar energy, for one example, reportedly preparing requests for AFAs at we must consider the means of capturing the sunlight and the other refuges and parks. The refuge system must also adapt to materials involved. Are they depleting? Are they toxic? Are they emerging environmental issues such as renewable? What happens to them at the end of their useful life? climate change and water scarcity, which After doing that analysis, then we’ll see whether it’s going to be will require research, monitoring and nimble sustainable or not.” management. But since most refuges can The primacy of sustainability is echoed by Karen Seto, associate barely meet the needs of the present, there’s professor in the urban environment. She studies the environmental no time or money for future challenges. impact of cities, which this year became home to more than half “It can be fixed,” says Hocutt. “It’s so of the global population. She says people tend to think about fixable. We have the most salable product in energy in very individualistic ways—like how many miles per the world in our national wildlife refuges, gallon of gasoline they can squeeze out of their car—but not to and the majority of them are within 20 think about how their lifestyle choices affect the bigger energy miles of a major population center. But we picture. “We have to consider things like how cities are developed have to develop a strong constituency, and and planned, so people can use mass transit.” we have to have a seat at the table when Seto says the emphasis so far has been on low-hanging fruit money is being divvied up.” and feel-good steps people can take. “Ethanol, EnergyStar, hybrids, fuel cells, even a gas tax or carbon tax—they fundamentally do
Fall 2008 25 not change our consumption patterns. We need to be more inte- For example, he says, “CAFE standards are mostly wasteful grative and rethink those patterns. We need a sustainability policy; regulations. If the price of gas is very high, people are not going to an energy policy is one element of that.” buy cars with poor mileage. It’s happening now, and it didn’t Marian Chertow, Ph.D. ’00, associate professor of industrial require regulation.” (Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards environmental management, says she has looked into several were first put in place after the 1973 Arab oil embargo and were energy models. “I think we need to be consistent and systematic revised for the first time in 2007 to require an increase in about reducing our dependence on foreign fossil fuels. Drilling fleetwide gas mileage to 35 miles per gallon by 2020.) more now just extends something that’s unsustainable. We need Daniel Esty, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and to be mindful of public policies that ease the pain of transition Policy and director of the Center for Business and the Environment but don’t avoid the transition; the government may have to offer at Yale (CBEY), says a mix of market incentives and regulation subsidies to people below certain income thresholds or help will probably be necessary to bring about a clean-energy future, finance new technologies.” with the emphasis on the carrots of innovation. “The centerpiece Most of those interviewed favor regulations for reducing of any regulatory strategy will have to be some kind of price signal, greenhouse gases but consider market forces more effective in most likely a cap-and-trade allowance system.” It may make promoting other aspects of an energy policy, like the mix, avail- sense, he adds, to supplement that with some sort of “stick” to ability and price of various kinds of energy. make people pay directly for their destructive impacts on the Robert Mendelsohn, Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor of environment. He also proposes some “old-style mandates” to Forest Policy and an economist, is a big believer in the power of set standards for green building, including higher-efficiency air the market to solve America’s energy woes. “I believe that the conditioning and heating systems, better lighting, more insula- first priority for sorting out our energy problems is to sort out tion and higher-efficiency windows in both residential and our foreign policy problems,” he says. “It is critical for the commercial buildings. United States to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and return Bryan Garcia ’00, program director for CBEY, says that ongoing the globe to a stable and peaceful state. Then I believe that oil production tax credits and investment tax credits for renewable prices will promptly fall back to long-run values of about $50 per sources of energy are critical to nurturing their development and barrel.” He says the skyrocketing prices have been caused mainly survival, adding that Congress’ inability to pass them prevents by “wars and hostilities in virtually every oil-producing country.” continuous investment in wind, solar, biomass and other forms Mendelsohn supports a role for government in curbing or of renewable energy. He notes that the production tax credit is preventing environmental damage, so he favors regulations on especially helpful because it is generation-based, meaning the emissions. In fact, he says, economic analysis suggests that more power produced from a renewable source like wind or solar, greenhouse gases and other pollutants, such as particulates and the bigger the credit. “Extending investment tax credits and sulfur dioxide, should be more tightly regulated than they are expanding them to technology, like fuel cells and photovoltaic cells, now. The tightened regulations could come in the form of taxes on would give the market the sense that the federal government is emissions or cap-and-trade regulations, in which a government committed to these technologies,” he says, “because the fits and authority would set a cap on total emissions and companies would starts cause investors to say, ‘All right, the United States isn’t either buy or be given pollution credits. Companies that pollute committed to this, so we’ll move to other markets.’” more would need to buy credits from those that have successfully Chertow advises a multipronged approach for a long-term reduced their emissions and, therefore, have “extra” credits to sell. energy policy, focusing on conservation. “Every time we burn a Exploration for new oil and other energy sources is better left fossil fuel conventionally to make electricity,” she notes, “two- to the market, says Mendelsohn. “The more the government thirds of the energy value is lost as waste heat.” For transportation, interferes in these choices, the worse off society is likely to be.” it’s all about miles per gallon, improving fuel-efficiency standards. At this point we’re not doing it through regulation, we’re doing it through people’s pocketbooks, and I think it’s important to have a plan.” She adds that the plan would not necessarily involve regulation. “It could be incentives to drive less. For example, ridership on passenger rail and buses need only increase by 15 percent to 30 percent in Bryan Garcia Arnulf Grubler Robert Mendelsohn Karen Seto order to allow service to be expanded geometrically in most regions. With
26 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies more and better service, the attractiveness of mass transit will have support with more strategic focus, for example, by helping the profound impacts on development and lifestyles in the next genera- nation achieve the goal of energy independence.” tion, even if the current population only slightly alters its lifestyles. Chertow also calls for more research and development on We won’t become a European-style transportation culture overnight energy issues. “The U.S. government spends about a billion or perhaps ever, but if Dallas and Denver begin to look more like dollars a year less than it did 10 years ago on energy research New York and San Francisco from a sustainability point of view and development at a time when so many of the issues we face, over the next 10 years, America will have changed for the better.” from the Middle East to our own economy, are so affected by Chertow favors “unleashing” entrepreneurs, because energy choices and prices. We aren’t doing the basic R&D work “Americans resist regulation and being told what to do, but that could turn a big problem into a solution that creates jobs, when it comes from the business sector it’s often a positive reduces dependence and reduces global tensions.” force, creating jobs and reducing dependence.” Arnulf Grubler, professor in the field of energy and technology, Robert Bailis, assistant professor of environmental social science, sees a need to increase government over- sight of business in pursuit of a viable energy strategy. “The government needs to be a little less business-friendly or at least needs to promote different businesses than it has in the past, like mining and petroleum.” He supports rolling back some tax breaks on Paul Anastas Robert Bailis Marian Chertow Daniel Esty drilling and says that such support should go instead to renewable energy. Garcia says any successful government energy strategy “can’t says that in talking about energy policy, one has to worry about leave consumers out of the picture. We often establish policies at import dependence, CO2 emissions and local air pollution the federal and state levels that ignore consumers, and by that I because of smog. “Now, all these problems are proportional to mean they don’t let consumers know there are incentives for them the amount of energy used, so before we talk about drilling our that they can take advantage of and, in so doing, change their way out of oil import dependence—and you cannot, obviously— own behavior to be part of the solution.” For example, he says you need first to try to reduce the demand as much as possible, the federal government and some state governments, including because the lower the demand, the easier it is to address the Connecticut, provide thousands of dollars in incentives for other energy challenges. And this, unfortunately, is not a very homeowners who install renewable energy systems in their homes. popular message and, in most debates, is ignored. “So this can’t just be the government taking care of us; this “When my students first come into class,” he says, “they talk has to also be about the government getting people to take about renewable energy and biofuels for cars without ever ques- responsibility themselves for their actions and providing them a tioning whether it makes sense to have biofuels in an inefficient carrot or an incentive to, in fact, do that,” says Garcia. “Consumers car. Does it make sense, as my countryman Arnold Schwarzenegger can actually be the solution providers; we have to engage them.” has done, to have hydrogen—an alternative fuel and incredibly Garcia also recommends “taking a hard look at the importance expensive—and use it in a Hummer? Now, Arnold has sold his of all federal national labs that are dealing with energy and hydrogen Hummer, but my point is that you need to look first at demonstrating a commitment to science,” a commitment that the demand and the efficiency of energy.” Then, he says, other many environmentalists and scientists charge has been undermined issues can be discussed within that context, such as oil imports, by the Bush administration. “Federal labs like Lawrence Berkeley increased domestic drilling and development of alternative- National Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy energy technologies. Laboratory are vital resources for the advancement of clean energy Esty says leadership is critical to shifting America toward a in the United States. They provide technology test beds for com- clean-energy future. “The key to doing that will be a president panies seeking to “prove out” the reliability of their technologies. who brings the country together around a clean-energy agenda, They provide lab facilities to design and develop the next genera- galvanizing the public and then really working the Congress to tion of solar technologies. And they provide a useful national bring Democrats and Republicans together on a shared vision of resource focused on advancing clean and renewable sources of the way forward.” energy. “We should look at them with an eye toward greater All photos by Harold Shapiro except Dan Esty (Gale Zucker) and Karen Seto
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The Hudson: America’s River Thoreau’s In The Hudson: America’s River, author Frances New England: Dunwell ’84 explores the Hudson River as a 315-mile-
book Photographs long exemplar of the relationship and interdependence of the American people with the environment they have and Selections claimed, tamed, exploited and repaired over a span of In Thoreau’s New centuries. With a brief introduction on the Native England: Photographs and Americans who lived on the Hudson’s shores and Selections, photographer depended on it for their sustenance, Dunwell launches her Stephen Gorman ’88 pres- chronicle in earnest with Henry Hudson’s 17th-century ents his own vibrant images of wild New England, exploration and follows the American story of this mighty paired with quotes from the writings of Henry David river as it evolved over 300 years through the American Thoreau, including Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Revolution, burgeoning national commercialization, Cod and a number of shorter essays and letters. Gorman invention and industrialization, development divides his visions of natural New England into two and pollution, up to The Nature Conservancy’s sections: “Wildness,” in which Thoreau saw “the preser- campaign in the 1960s to “save a mountain and vation of the world”; and “Society,” which Thoreau revive a ‘dead’ river.” In his foreword, Robert presumed to question, while continuing to embrace it Kennedy Jr. commends the author for “high- as part of a nonconformist’s life of exploration and lighting the symbolic power that the Hudson adventure. The book is published by University Press of has acquired over its people and over our New England. To purchase a copy, visit www.upne.com nation.” The book is published by Columbia or www.amazon.com. University Press. To purchase a copy, visit cup.columbia.edu or www.amazon.com. The Storks’ Nest: Life and Love How to Land a in the Russian Countryside Top-Paying Federal Job In The Storks’ Nest: Life and Love in the Russian Countryside, author Laura Lynne Williams ’99, with In How to Land a Top-Paying Federal Job, Lily photographs taken by her hus- Whiteman ’88 disputes the common misconceptions band, Igor Shpilenok, chronicles of many job-seekers: that government salaries are non- the life and work that have negotiable; that only applicants with the right connections grown out of their mutual com- can succeed in getting an offer; or that if one has previous- mitment to preserve the wilder- ly applied for a federal position and been rejected, they’re ness of Russia. The author tells out of luck. Drawing on interviews with more than 100 multiple stories: of her partner- hiring managers, Whiteman offers readers little-known ship with Shpilenok, both pro- ways for finding openings, shortcuts for instantly fessional and personal; of the impressing the true gatekeepers on paper and in person rugged realities of life in the and sure-fire tips for negotiating a top salary and getting government-protected wilder- quickly promoted. The book includes a companion CD nesses of Russia; and of the filled with sample resumes and worksheets. Whiteman remote Russian village they lives in Washington, D.C., and call home and the 18 villagers who are their is a popular contributor to the neighbors. The author begins her saga with her move to Jobs section of The Washington Moscow in 1993 to set up the World Wildlife Fund in Post. The book is published Russia. A meeting with Shpilenok led to a job offer, which by AMACOM, a division of Williams accepted in 1997, and this led her to both the American Management wilderness that she is working to support and marriage Association. To purchase a to her colleague. The book is published by Fulcrum copy, call 1-800-714-6395 or Publishing. To purchase a copy, visit www.fulcrum- visit www.amacombooks.org. books.com or www.amazon.com.
28 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Harold Shapiro Harold William Burch cited a Puccini opera during a lecture once to make a point that “every time we lose a species we cry together.”
TRIBUTE: William Burch A Career Devoted to Finding Environmental Solutions in Ordinary People’s Lives
By Alan Bisbort
his spring, William Burch, “a professor at a fancy school who thinks mental solutions can’t be outside the Frederick C. Hixon Professor of that the most effective learning for natural scale of daily human life,” he says. “The Natural Resource Management, resource professionals can only come Cedar Hill neighborhood group in New T told a gathering of F&ES alumni through getting your hands dirty by being Haven honored the work of our students that he had, during his career, tried to involved in activities useful to others.” from the Urban Resources Initiative and “carry out the words, if not the music, to He offered his audience advice such as: the ecosystem management class by the song ‘I did it my way!’” “always question authority—especially if planting a birch tree near the basketball Burch, who is retiring this year from you have now become one” and “meaning court, making a connection between Yale after 40 years on the faculty, was on well or even being right seldom excuses a playing basketball and the natural world. hand to receive a distinguished service large failure done in public and with all This group, like many others in the city, award, along with former Dean John the bright stage lights on.” has demonstrated that local people can Gordon and Robert Pyle, Ph.D. ’76. When Burch has had few “large failures” in take charge of their own environment. it was time for him to give the keynote his career, though he has felt the bright They just need modest resources, technical address to the alumni, Burch—never one lights on such stages as Nepal, Bhutan, backup and some optimism that our to flinch from sharing his passion— China, Costa Rica, Argentina, Bolivia, students bring to such challenges.” offered remarks that have become his Paraguay, India, Bangladesh, the In addition to the classes he has taught trademark: part instructional, part inspi- Philippines and Peru, as well as the inner at F&ES in forest management and urban rational, all from the heart. He, in short, cities of the United States. At each stop, ecology, Burch has also held social science did it his way by presenting the talk he has hammered home the one idea that research and management appointments “Back to the Future: Lessons From has animated his research: “Urban areas with the U.S. Forest Service, National Pulaskis, Peaveys, Porcupine Sex and are ecological systems, and humans Park Service and Connecticut Department Maine Lupines.” should be studied from ecological and of Environmental Protection. His work In it, he called himself “a preindustrial spatial perspectives.” on wildland recreation behavior was exchange scholar, whose rant is that In other words, you can’t take the among the earliest, and expanded to society is nature and nature is social” and human out of the environment. “Environ- include parks, biosphere reserves and
Fall 2008 29 ecotourist regions in Asia, South America Graeme Berlyn, E. H. Harriman now a professor of conservation at the and Europe. Professor of Forest Management, is the University of Idaho. “He found connec- He was the first director of Yale’s longest-serving member of the F&ES tions between the social and biological Tropical Resources Institute and the faculty, in his 48th year. “Even though sciences that no one, to my knowledge, Urban Resources Initiative. He has been a he used to jokingly say his expertise was had found, and he stated them for the first grantee on numerous projects—sponsored ‘the sociology of leisure,’ Bill got so time. I thought, ‘I want to go study with by USAID, the Ford Foundation, the many things done. He deepened and him,’ contacted him at Yale and went MacArthur Foundation and the World broadened the school, but his biggest gift there as a doctoral student. I had never Wildlife Fund—in Asia and Latin to his students may be his broadening of been east of Bozeman before that.” America. He was awarded the John Eadie their imaginations. I’m terribly sad to see Machlis recalls a conference at which Fellowship by the Scottish Forestry Trust him go.” Burch was speaker: “The hall was filled to advise British Forestry on community- For Stern and his wife, Kim Thurlow with peace and optimism, and to stir based forestry research and training ’02, Burch wasn’t just a teacher; he took a things up and connect the event to the needs. And since 2001, he has been an paternal interest in their lives. Burch flew subject of forests, Bill pulled out the adjunct professor in the School of to speak at their wedding despite being largest chainsaw I’d ever seen and cranked Economics and Management at Beijing weak from a bout of dysentery. it up. It spewed blue smoke and made a Forestry University. Equally memorable was the conference noise like an atomic explosion. You see “The best class I ever took was his on rainforest protection that Stern organ- that as a graduate student and you think, six-credit monster on managing protected ized at the school and at which Burch ‘Anything is possible.’” areas,” says Marc Stern ’92, Ph.D. ’06, was the keynote speaker. Generous to a fault and accessible to whose advisor was Burch. “I was hesitant “People had been pontificating all an extreme, Burch is also given to soli- to take it, because I just wanted to be day about various forest issues,” recalls tary wanderings in the forest. Tireless in Stern. “Bill got up in his torn jeans, tweed his dedication to his job, he is equally coat and cowboy belt buckle and slammed devoted to his family, and his Branford his fist on the podium. He was angry, home was open to F&ES students over “He deepened and telling the crowd ‘You are arguing over the years. “Bill had students from all over broadened the school, but tiny things. What you’re forgetting about the world and treated them as an extended … is love.’ Then he cited a Puccini opera family,” notes Machlis. his biggest gift to his students to make a point that ‘every time we lose a His worldview was shaped during a species we cry together.’ By the time he boyhood in eastern Oregon, when his may be his broadening of was through, there were people weeping father, then employed by the Depression- their imaginations.” in the audience behind me.” era Works Progress Administration, took When asked later about the talk, the family on extended camping trips. “It Burch laughs and says, “It was the usual was a good childhood,” he says. “My Graeme Berlyn stuff, people talking in grandiose ways, brother and I grew up out of a tent.” not connecting to the assumed clients— While attending college at the University the villagers in Guatemala or whomever. of Oregon, Burch could not resist getting away from people in a forest studying the Not asking, ‘What do they need? How do involved in the trade union movement and ecosystem. But he convinced me that they perceive the problem?’ I sensed an found himself at the center of a campus local studies in New Haven were just as unwillingness to get down and find out workers’ strike. Later, working for the fascinating as forests in Nepal—that it for themselves.” U.S. Forest Service, he struggled with didn’t matter where you are, New Haven Like Stern, Gary Machlis, Ph.D. ’79, like-minded scientists to save the virgin or Nepal; the same theories and realities had a close relationship with Burch. forests from timbering and dam building applied. His message has always been “After I had done my master’s, I came before the Wilderness Act was passed that unless you can reach to that village across Bill’s first book, Daydreams and in September 1964. The act protected level, it won’t work. We can think up Nightmares [originally published in 1971 9 million acres of federal land and created brilliant ideas and theories and plans, but by Harper & Row and republished in the legal definition of wilderness: “an it makes no difference if they don’t reach 1988 by Social Ecology Press], which ordinary people.” was a revelation to me,” says Machlis, continued on page 61
30 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies classnotes
1940 since I retired in 1986. I have been busy cutting grass and babysitting trying to learn more about the Chinese for grandkids. Not old enough to John Slocomb is 93 years old and scientists who received special train- winter in Florida yet.” lives in Grantsville, Md. He is in ing in wood technology at the Yale excellent health, keeps up on forestry Forestry School from 1945 to 1946. 1949 60th Reunion Year and environmental issues, walks My friend and fellow 1946 alumnus daily, likes to sail, plays saxophone Class Secretary Dave Smith, Ph.D. ’50, and Gordon in a local band and recently wrote a Daniel Dick Geballe, F&ES associate dean for book on Paul Bunyan stories. [email protected] student and alumni affairs, have Jim Carlaw was the first forester that 1942 helped me. Gordon wrote that on the wall near his Sage Hall office is a International Paper ever hired, which Richard Jorgensen, D.F. ’54, writes: photo showing 14 Chinese students involved him in very large sales and “I have been very fortunate in being in a special 1946 class. He also wrote purchases of timberland and pulp. He able to talk to the other four members retired to Cape Cod when he was 60. to his colleague Yajie Song ’89, of our class. Betty and Dick West are D.F.E.S. ’95, who traveled in China Dan Dick writes: “Then there were in Florida to be near their three during the summer of 2008 and had 51 of us, the largest class in the history grandkids and seven great-grandkids. planned to make contact with one or of the school at that time. Now there Betty is severely arthritic and needs more of these former students. The are 20 of us 59 years later. Not so much care, but Dick says her spirit is history of the Yale Forestry School’s bad. Noting that the previous issue good. He and Crock Atkinson tented first half-century has a chapter on of environment:Yale did not list a class together at Urania camp, and both “Yale in Foreign Countries,” with a secretary for our class, I volunteered mentioned Crock sticking his pistol section on China that points out and was appointed posthaste. Wiry out of the tent and firing to scare how Chinese graduates, including Dave Fordyce, of Ogden, Utah, for an owl away that was keeping D.Y. Lin ’14, N.K. Ip ’19, Paul S. Lee years now has been concerned over them awake. Crock turned 90 last ’20, P.F. Shen ’21, C.F. Yao ’21 and the lack of forest management of the November and is still hunting. He C. Wan ’23 played an important part timberlands in those states where too got a 185-pound buck last fall. Sadly, in Chinese forestry.” little rainfall produces incendiary Crock’s brother in Boston is very ill, conditions. To quote Dave, ‘… forests and Crock had just returned from 1947 need stocking control through heavy thinning, fire breaks along with visiting him when we talked. Sid Class Secretary McKnight lost his beloved wife just prescribed burning. Both federal and Evert Johnson private-property holders pulled back about the time I lost mine and is [email protected] going through the same lonely life, from these actions due to no financing but showed me up by walking 10 Henry “Hank” Wilson writes: “I and threatened lawsuits by environ- miles every day. I go around the took a 35-day Viking cruise and was mental groups using surrogate reasons block once a week! He has a patch of amazed at seeing a plantation in such as timber harvesting, thinning timber behind his house and often Iceland of very slow-growing trees. I or any type of vegetative management goes out to watch the trees grow. His enjoy keeping in touch with Robert that would purportedly threaten children are some 30 miles away, and Parker, now living in Issaquah, Wash. wildlife habitat, or perhaps, an I check on him often. Ben Eggeman He is acquiring land in Brush, Colo. endangered species. Judicial decisions lives in Alexandria, Va., with wife I live in Lyman, S.C., a small town were handed down to stay harvesting Jenny, whom he latched on to some between Greenville and Spartanburg. or any type of tree-cutting. With these 60 years ago. They’re keeping the I always enjoy the news of Yale management practices shut down or line going with six grandchildren. I Forestry School graduates from the curtailed, ground fires turned into serve on the board of directors at a WWII era.” crown fires and total destruction of senior housing facility and do some the forest. This year, money has been church work. I got a new driver’s 1948 allocated for extensive thinning. license on my 90th and take folks Class Secretary Actually, when controlled, fire is very shopping, etc.” Francis Clifton beneficial, such as in the South, to [email protected] ensure regeneration.’ How about them 1946 apples?! I trust that the rest of us Francis Clifton writes: “August 1 aren’t too old to find some similar Class Secretary was my fourth anniversary at The passion stirring in our bloodstream Paul Burns Cloisters in DeLand, Fla.” George about personal or professional issues [email protected] Hindmarsh writes: “I went to White of interest. How about it?” Herb Paul Burns, Ph.D. ’49, writes: “I Lake off Lake Michigan with my Winer, Ph.D. ’56, likes the interna- continue to go to my office nearly daughter for 10 days and caught two tional position the school holds as every day at the Louisiana State nice salmon. I admired the great its curriculum and outreach have University School of Renewable wildlife and huge white pine and red developed. Natural Resources in Baton Rouge. oak in the area above Michigan’s I have been professor emeritus there shores.” John O’Donnell writes: “I am long retired but healthy, and keep
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1950 Eric Ellwood, Ph.D. ’54, writes: lectures and encyclopedia articles. “Now in my 86th year, I have been My wife Alexandra, a dietician, is Class Secretary
class retired for 19 years from my position now retired. We have two sons—a Kenneth Carvell of Dean of the College of Natural surgeon and an orthodontist.” [email protected] Resources at North Carolina State Walter Henson, Ph.D. ’50, writes: “I University. Retired is a misnomer, as 1954 55th Reunion Year broke my hip early in May and spent I run out of time daily. For the first Class Secretary eight weeks in the hospital. Recovery several years of my retirement, my Richard Chase has been slow, but my doctor tells main occupation was caregiver for [email protected] me I am doing well. Pauline is doing my ailing wife Dorothy (Parkinson’s pretty well. She enjoyed the pool disease). She passed away in 2000, 1956 during the hot summer. The grand- and a few years later I married a children are prospering and are lots wonderful lady, Mary Kilburn, who Class Secretary of fun.” this year will retire from her business Jack Rose as a clinical psychologist. We do [email protected] 1951 some traveling and have lots of Jack Rose writes: “After too much Class Secretary expanded family nearby. I’m pretty medical excitement for the last year, Peter Arnold active gardening (especially roses) we finally headed out for our Sun [email protected] and sailing off the North Carolina Valley, Idaho, home in August, and the trout are now endangered again.” Peter Arnold writes: “This year I coast. My principal passion is photog- raphy (I’ve built a studio over the have crossed a couple of watersheds. 1957 July saw my professional forester’s garage), and I’ve won some awards license come off the wall—in for my work. My best regards to all Gordon Baskerville, Ph.D. ’64, California, if you don’t renew and the other survivors out there and received an honorary Doctor of neglect to inform the powers, you would like to hear from them. Have Science (Forestry) degree on May 29 get fined for it—so no more woods to go—things to do!” Oak Thorne from the University of New traipsing for me. My knees would writes: “I was elected to the external Brunswick. In attendance for this complain too much anyway. This board of the Yale Institute for occasion, which was held in the cen- year we also moved out of the house Biospheric Studies and am honored tennial year of the UNB Faculty of we had lived in for 35 years (four to be a member.” George Tsoumis, Forestry and Environmental Studies, years out while we lived in Ecuador) D.F. ’57, writes: “I am 20 years in was John William Ker ’51, D.F. ’57. and into a new one just up the hill retirement as professor of forest that wife Sarah had designed—a very utilization, School of Forestry and 1958 easy transfer from one to the other. Natural Environment, Aristotelian Class Secretary We had sold most of our property, University, Thessaloniki, Greece. In Ernest Kurmes including the vineyard, two years the course of the years, I published [email protected] ago and were renting until this one three books in English: Wood as Raw Material; Science and Technology of Herster Barres writes: “I continue to was finished. And the final water- develop the forest carbon-offset shed was leaving the grape-growing Wood; and Harvesting Forest Products. These were published in the United model, which I have been working business. In 2007, even though on for more than 40 years. Reforest the vineyard was no longer ours, I States and England and as texts in Greek for the local students. In 2007, the Tropics (RTT), a Connecticut- managed it for the last season, a based nonprofit organization, manages most dismal one in terms of yield. I published Forests and Environment in Ancient Greece. It is in Greek with 30 carbon-offset forests for 59 U.S. But grapes from that vineyard have, sponsors in Costa Rica. The goal of over the years, produced award- a long English summary. I donated a copy of this book to the F&ES this applied research, climate-change winning cabernet franc; in fact, the program is to combine efficient CO 1997 vintage was even noted in a library. Over my career, I was a 2 Fulbright scholar and dean of the sequestration in tropical farm pasture Wall Street Journal article about that reforestation projects, with the pro- varietal some time back.” School of Agriculture and Forestry and the School of Forestry and duction of wood for farmer income. 1952 Natural Environment in Greece. I Key to long-term carbon sequestration taught at Montana and Penn State is the profitability of these forests to Class Secretary universities. I was a research associate the participating farmer on whose Milton Hartley at Yale. I served as president of the land the forests are established. Only [email protected] Hellenic Forestry Association, was a if the farmer is happy with the cash member of the International Academy flow from the forest will the forest be 1953 of Wood Science and was a founding managed sustainably. Each forest has Class Secretary member of the Hellenic Agricultural a 25-year agreement between RTT Stanley Goodrich Academy. I published 60 research and the farmer. In September 2008, [email protected] papers and many presentations in the first thinning of these very-fast journals, books, conferences, public growing forests will be done for
32 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies farmer income. Recently, Mike commission has issued a statement 1965 Ferrucci ’81 and Kyle Meister ’07 calling for a presidential commission Class Secretary inspected some of the 30 different on forests to address major inconsis- James Howard innovative models designed by me. tencies between policies and an [email protected] RTT maintains a forester in Costa urbanizing society with a growing Rica who is in charge of managing population in federal and state forest John Blouch writes: “I’m director of the forests under my direction. The policies. In parallel, the commission specialty paper sales, trying to results so far are very positive, with calls for a forest caucus in the brighten the world with Fluorescent, annual sequestration rates of 40 to Congress and forestry sectors in the Photo Ink Jet, Laser and Latex papers from Miami Wabash Paper in 50 tons of CO2 per hectare by the various governors’ associations. I fifth and sixth years in some designs.” continue to chair the Forest History Franklin, Ohio. I work out of my Visit the Yale Rolf Benseler writes: “It’s our 50th Society, which is growing its endow- home office in Lebanon, Pa. I enjoy School of Forestry anniversary, and I have much to be ment and its relevance to education great health and love the customers grateful for. I still can get out with and public policy. I’m grossly over- and the opportunities to help. I plan & Environmental my dog in the field and in the worked and underpaid as a member on working until the other huskies Studies website at woods: redwoods, coast and sierra, of the board of the Seabrook Island pull too fast, and they leave my though mostly sierra mixed conifer Property Owners Association, and I carcass for the wolves. I’ve been environment.yale.edu and coastal mixed evergreen forests. chair two of its committees. Adelaide married to Joyce for 43 years. She is Move slowly, shorter distances, less and I travel and enjoy grandchildren, a very patient and understanding time spent afield. I continue to be and I find time to golf, fish, boat and semi-retired HR manager. The sole active in the local Bernard Osher shoot.” Harry Wiant Jr., Ph.D. ’63, progeny, John von Blauch (restoration Lifelong Learning Institute and Adult holds the Joseph E. Ibberson Chair of pre-immigration nomenclature), Education Program. Once a student, in Forest Resources Management at is managing director of a Madrid always a student. Classmate Bill Penn State University, which has just jewelry company, Cejalvo, manufac- Rogers and his wife, Peg, celebrate announced the institution of a new turer of orders and decorations such their golden anniversary this year. Ibberson Chair in Silviculture as Blue Max and Golden Fleece.” When asked how I spend my time, I Research. Joseph Ibberson ’48 was Michael Greenwood, Ph.D. ’69, recite a little ditty: ‘I wander and the subject of the book A Forester’s writes: “I am in my last year of a wonder, look and listen, usually with Legacy: The Life of Joseph E. Ibberson, phased retirement in the School of dog on the go. Ballet and opera, Bach by Henry Gerhold ’56, Ph.D. ’59 Forest Resources at the University of and Shakespeare, usually with wife (See Bookshelf, Fall 2007). Maine, wrapping up the establishment in tow.’” Ernie Kurmes, Ph.D. ’61, of a clonal test of white pine to find is writing a brief history of the 1962 weevil-resistant clones. I still have Northern Arizona University forestry Class Secretary some graduate students, and have school for the celebration of its 50th Larry Safford some articles to finish on maturation anniversary this year. He also is [email protected] and stand growth in red spruce. I completely recovered from a hip work closely with Bob Seymour ’76, replacement operation in mid-June. Jeff Burley, Ph.D. ’65, writes: “After Ph.D. ’80, on the White Pine project, a career in international development and work with Bruce Wiersma as a 1959 50th Reunion Year forestry and academic teaching and member of our new Center for research at Oxford, I retired in 2003 Sustainable Forestry Research.” Class Secretary and have recently become chair of an Hans Bergey incubator company, C-Questor, 1966 [email protected] which is concerned with marine, Class Secretary geological, terrestrial and silvicultural Howard Dickinson Jr. 1960 carbon sequestration and renewable- Class Secretary energy generation.” John Hamner 1967 [email protected] 1963 Class Secretary Robert Hintze Class Secretary [email protected] 1961 James Boyle Class Secretary [email protected] Roger Graham 1968 Class Secretary R. Scott Wallinger writes: “I am a 1964 45th Reunion Year Gerald Gagne member of the National Commission John Worrall, Ph.D. ’69, reports that [email protected] on Science for Sustainable Forestry, he is five years retired, but still now in its final year and making some teaching forestry at the University of 1969 40th Reunion Year significant policy-related recommen- British Columbia (41st year coming dations. Joyce Berry, D.F.E.S. ’00, up). They just don’t pay him for it Class Secretary John Gordon and Al Sample ’80, anymore. Davis Cherington D.F. ’89, are also members. The [email protected]
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1970 Oregon, 1905-2005; Can’t You Hear have an exclusive deal with the the Whistle Blowin’: Logs, Lignite, and patent holder and are seeking part- Class Secretary
class Locomotives in Coos County, Oregon, ners, advisors, investors and friends Whitney Beals 1859-1930; and Remember When: to help us through the coming steps.” [email protected] Coos County Schools, 1850-1940. He John Bissonette writes: “I work for makes presentations around the state 1974 35th Reunion Year the U.S. Geological Survey, and have of Oregon about the history of the Chuck Dauchy writes: “I’m still led the Utah Cooperative Fish and timber, railroad, coal mining and using my F&ES education and a few Wildlife Research Unit at Utah State schools of the region. He lives in years of on-the-job training with the University since 1985. I just finished North Bend, Ore. Rick Matheny SCS (now NRCS), a small civil engi- my fifth book, Temporal Dimensions writes: “For 32 years, I have been the neering firm, and have been an of Landscape Ecology: Wildlife director of public health for the independent consultant since 1986 Responses to Variable Resources, which Farmington Valley Health District, a for wetlands delineation, site design is the third in a series of landscape 10-town area that encompasses the and permitting (to avoid the wet- ecology ideas for wildlife biologists. I majority of the watershed of the lands) and stormwater management. was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Farmington River in Connecticut. I Thanks to Tom Siccama and my 2002 at the Technic University of have just recently rotated off of the classmates for help on plant identifi- Munich, and in 2005 a Mercator board of directors of the National cation, to Garth Voight for my intro Visiting Professor at the University of Association of County and City to soils, to Professor Gartska for an Freiburg in Germany. I return yearly Health Officials after eight years, the intro to hydrology and to the whole in November to the University of last four of which I was on the exec- school for the understanding that Freiburg to teach a three-week utive committee. I was just elected everything is connected.” Len course in landscape ecology to inter- president of the Connecticut Lankford continues expanding the national students. The people that Association of Directors of Health community-based forestry enterprise, make life wonderful are my wife of for a two-year term, and I spent five Greenleaf Forestry and Wood 42 years, Mary; my son, Gabe, who years as a special consultant to the Products. Three huge buildings have works for the Bureau of Land board of scientific counselors of the been added—all constructed of Management in Moab, Utah; and my Agency for Toxic Substances and salvaged materials—to house a wood- daughter, Nicole, who works for the Disease Registry. My wife, Ines, and product showroom (10,000 square Utah Department of Health, and her I have four adult children and two feet) and two lumber-drying sheds husband, Robert. Nicole’s daughter— grandchildren, all of whom live (each 3,500 square feet). Installation our first grandbaby, Gabriella—turned within an hour’s drive, so we get to of grant-funded small-diameter pole 1 in August. I find it so fascinating to spend lots of time together. I have and lumber processing equipment is watch her go through all of those become a very serious photographer proceeding. Greenleaf is now pro- developmental steps that my children and have had many photographs cessing beetle-kill lodge pole pine went through more than 35 years exhibited at juried art and photo- from northern Colorado, where 1.5 ago. It keeps us young. When we’re graphy exhibits in the Hartford area. million acres of lodge pole have died. not traveling, you can find me riding My online gallery can found at www.greenleafforestry.com Liz my horse in the mountains of Utah www.nikonians-images.org/galleries Mikols sends warm greetings to all and my Harley on the back roads of under RHMJR2.” from New Mexico. After retiring the West.” Donn Critchell is from Lehigh Cement Company in designing and maintaining simple 1971 the spring of 2008, she and her websites for local town and commu- Class Secretary husband, Joe Schindler, relocated to nity organizations. He is also a mem- Harold Nygren Silver City, N.M., in early August. As ber of two photography clubs and [email protected] of writing, they were still up to their participates in their monthly compe- ears in boxes and bubble wrap. She titions. His photographs are online at 1972 writes that she participated in a www.dynamicdonn.com. After retire- five-session workshop with the Gila ment, Donn took up downhill skiing Class Secretary Native Plant Society on Shrubs and and has been to China twice, Greece Ruth Hamilton Allen Trees of New Mexico on August 20. once and Switzerland several times [email protected] “Although I am terribly rusty, I with his skiing friends and Sue. He Gary Taylor, Ph.D. ’77, writes: “I’m managed to recognize some of those gave up sailing to take up kayaking working with a small group to com- arcane (and delightful) botanical on lakes and sometimes on the mercialize a versatile concentrating terms, such as tomentose, pinnately Hudson River near Catskill, N.Y. solar patent. Ray tracing and compound and obovate. I am eager William Lansing retired as president computer simulations just completed to learn a new flora, which I plan to and CEO of Menasha Forest show that we are ahead of the curve put to good use when landscaping Products Corporation in April 2006, of the most advanced technologies my yard. I volunteer at the local a position he held since 2001. He is currently deployed. We have just historical museum and hope to begin the author of Seeing the Forest for the commissioned a prototype that we teaching a few group fitness classes Trees: Menasha Corporation and Its believe will be finished soon. We later this year.” 100 Year History in Coos County,
34 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Judith Stockdale writes: “I am other grads from different eras. After Toppenish and Umatilla National executive director of the Gaylord and a five-year stint with The Nature Wildlife Refuges; McNary National Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Conservancy, I entered residential Wildlife Refuge and Environmental which is focused on land conservation real estate, working with conservation Education Center; and the Hanford and artistic vitality in the three-state sellers and buyers to help protect the Reach National Monument.” Helen Chicago region and the Low Country Lower Connecticut River through Waldorf retired from the Massachusetts of South Carolina. Projects of the private action. I’m married, have two Department of Environmental moment concern local food produc- adult sons—one married, one about Protection after 25 years to do tion, regional land use, the Illinois to be—and have lived in one place for freelance and volunteer work on Cultural Data Project and the Arts 32 years. I manage my own 50-acre climate change. bostongreenfest.org; Visit the Yale Work Fund. I serve on the boards of woodlot in Lyme, which provides [email protected] the Donors Forum, Friends of Ryerson me with fuel, some venison and School of Forestry tranquility.” Michael Harlow is 1976 Woods and the Nuveen Funds. My & Environmental husband, Jonathan Boyer, is working undergoing a highly experimental Richard Guldin, Ph.D. ’79, is the on sustainable architecture and stem cell transplant procedure at director of Quantitative Sciences at Studies website at neighborhoods with Farr Associates.” Stanford to try to stave off continuing the USDA Forest Service. In June, he environment.yale.edu assaults from multiple myeloma. was recruited to lead an interagency 1975 His brother is the stem cell donor. project started by the Council of Jean Thomson Black was promoted to Patrick Lee assumed a managerial Environmental Quality. The intent of executive editor in the Acquisitions position with the Legacy Lands the project is to recommend a path Department of Yale University Press. Program in 2006. He writes: “The forward on building the capacity to Jean has built the science, medicine Legacy Lands Program seeks to regularly report on NEST indicators to and technology lists from almost establish an interconnected system of the incoming chair of CEQ, director of nothing since coming to the Press in parks, natural areas, open spaces the Office of Science and Technology April 1990. “It is a remarkable and trails and greenways throughout the Policy and deputy director of the deep accomplishment that has county. Since its inception in 1985, Office of Management and Budget. earned the respect of her peers the program has protected over Colin Peterson writes: “My wife, throughout the publishing world,” 4,000 acres of land. The emphasis is Sandy, and I relocated in May from according to an announcement. She on habitat protection and restoration Prattville, Ala., to Georgetown, S.C., invented the consumer health list and and low-impact recreation. New following retirement in October 2007 the Yale University Press Health and initiatives include development of from International Paper’s Global Wellness imprint. Her specializations programs to support working farms Forestry Division after 36-plus years. have encompassed life, environmental and forests in the county that are All good things must come to an end. and physical sciences; history of threatened by rapid urbanization. I have four daughters, five grand- science and medicine; environmental Clark County is just across the children and innumerable friends and politics and policy; environmental Columbia River from Portland, Ore., fellow associates made over the years history; the ongoing debate between and is an integral part of the in forestry and various organizations.” science and religion; and trade Portland-Vancouver metropolitan [email protected] Ty psychology and cognitive science/ area. My daughter, Robyn, graduated Tice writes: “I took a memorable philosophy of the mind. She has from Oregon State University in monthlong ‘walkabout’ in the acquired a continuous stream of 2006 with a major in biology, and is Australian states of Queensland, excellent academic and trade titles, now working at Oregon Health Victoria and Tasmania, guided by my from general interest to scholarly to Sciences University in Portland. My eldest grandson, Lincoln, after he course books, to major reference son, Darren, is a junior at Rensselaer finished a semester abroad studying works, such as Lichens of North Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., environmental issues at Queensland America and Phylogeny and majoring in chemical engineering. At University before graduating from Classification of Birds. Among the a recent Yale gathering at the Lucky the University of Wisconsin in May F&ES faculty and graduates whose Lab brew pub in northwest Portland, 2008. I spent several enjoyable days books Jean has published are John I had a nice conversation with former with Chris and Herb Bormann, here Aber ’73, Ph.D. ’76; Diana Balmori; Dean John Gordon and his son, Sean in Seattle. I endured the painful Joyce Berry, D.F.E.S. ’00; Herb Gordon ’91.” Jaynee Levy writes: ‘laying to rest’ last fall of a decade- Bormann; Mark Boyce, Ph.D. ’77; “I transferred from the Bureau of long effort to establish a sustainable Ben Cashore; Susan Clark; Gordon Land Management in Utah to the business enterprise, discovering and Geballe; John Gordon; Steve Kellert; U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) producing hydrocarbon energy, in Ralph Schmidt ’78; and Gus Speth. in Washington. I live in Pasco, Wash. the Ukraine. Now, having fully Evan Griswold writes: “I have My new appointment involves man- completed a transition from a quarter- been involved with the school for aging visitor services for the FWS at century of environmental mediation several years now on a volunteer the Mid-Columbia River National practice to far more laid-back ‘elder’ basis, first as a delegate to the AYA Wildlife Refuge Complex, which pursuits of mentoring grandchildren, and also with the F&ES Alumni consists of eight refuges: Columbia, maintaining fitness, renewing Council. It’s been great fun meeting Cold Springs, Conboy Lake, McKay, friendships and traveling to special
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places, I’m looking forward to swap- varsity tennis and taught biology to writes: “After 20 years with the ping tales with F&ES colleagues Upward Bound students for a summer Washington State Department of
class along the way.” job. He’s attending Brown University, Ecology, I have retired from state and his career goal is to do research service. My last nine years were with 1977 in theoretical math. He’s not keen on the Water Quality Program, where I Class Secretary being close to nature, but he uses the served as grant project manager for a James Guldin clothesline instead of the dryer and variety of local nonpoint water quality [email protected] turns off the lights, so he’s on the projects, including stream restoration, right track.” Evan Koslow runs a water quality monitoring, outreach Tim Glidden writes: “I’m holding company in Waterloo, Ontario, and education. I enjoyed a summer down the fort at Land for Maine’s where he invents and develops new of hiking, backpacking (including a Future. Generous voters ponied up technologies and starts new compa- successful climb of Mt. Whitney), another $20 million for more trails, nies. Last year, his manufacturing gardening and kayaking. I will be eco-reserves, parks and green space, company KX Industries was sold to traveling with my husband, Perry so I guess I’m employed for another a large conglomerate. He has four Wien, to Argentina and Chile in the couple of years. Maine remains a boys, the youngest only 2 years old. fall and winter. After my return, I hotbed of F&ES types—classes old His wife, Gosia, is from Poland. plan to do volunteer work with envi- and new. On the home front, one Andrew Melnykovych writes: ronmental nonprofits, perhaps leading daughter is about to graduate college “I joined the executive staff of the eventually to part-time work.” and thinking about following ol’ dad Kentucky Public Service Commission, [email protected] Stuart Ross into the swamp of environmental and am living in Louisville. My son, writes: “After 25 years in corporate policy. She is even thinking about Alexander, is a sophomore history/ public relations, I am head of program applying to F&ES. Yikes. My second economics major at Hendrix College marketing and communications for daughter is headed to college this fall in Arkansas, where he plays on the the Environmental Defense Fund, looking to strike out as a historian lacrosse team. My daughter, Anna, where I am primarily based in and writer.” Kirk Hall writes: is a junior in high school, a prize- Washington, D.C., but commuting “When I left F&ES, I worked on winning baker of desserts and a player weekly from home in northern environmental cases in the U.S. on the field hockey team. Both kids Westchester, N.Y.” Kate Troll, Attorney’s Office in Portland, Ore. I are goalies, evidence that a lack of executive director of the Alaska liked the law side, so I got a law common sense is an inheritable trait.” Conservation Alliance in Anchorage, degree at Lewis & Clark Law School [email protected]. Howie wrote a letter to the editor that while working full time in a law Neufeld writes: “This summer I was appeared in the July 19 edition of firm. I practiced law for five years, invited to present a lecture to Rainer Newsweek. She wrote: “The easiest started a business related to trans- Matyssek’s research group at the way to raise individual consciousness portation services and was CEO of Technical University of Munich about is to tie climate change to weather a professional liability insurance the impacts of ozone on plants in reports—something everyone talks company for 12 years. I got married Great Smoky Mountains National about and watches. As such, I was to a wine writer along the way, Lisa Park. I also toured their research wondering if it was possible for Shara Hall, so there has been lots of forest (and got to go up in one of weather experts to develop a climate- travel to where grapes are grown. I those canopy cranes to view the change association index—say, on a don’t have any kids, but three dogs. forest from above the canopy— scale of 1 to 5 for different types of In 2000 I joined a technology startup something I highly recommend— extreme weather events, such as that was acquired by a big company very cool!). This October, I partici- floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.— in 2006. Now I work with a pated on a U.S. EPA panel in Research that weather reporters could quickly Portland-based commercial real estate Triangle Park, N.C., to discuss the reference. When we have 100-year syndication firm that focuses on protocols associated with setting the floods every 10 years or so, it’s more commercial properties in the West, National Ambient Air Quality than just local weather patterns. and also with a family company help- Standards for ozone. I am also the Alas, most reporters miss the climate- ing them manage their investment chair of Appalachian State University’s change connection, and as a result, and real estate holdings. On the side, Darwin Bicentennial Celebration so do most Americans. I certainly I drive Meals on Wheels on weekends Committee. We will be hosting 13 hope this [index] can be developed, and am a court-appointed special distinguished lecturers over the given that Alaska is warming up at advocate for abused and neglected upcoming fall and spring semesters two to three times the rate of the kids. I’m still trying to figure out to celebrate the 200th anniversary Lower 48. This small step could have what I want to do for my real career, of Darwin’s birth and the 150th a very significant impact on how we and will let you know when I do.” anniversary of the publication of as a nation face up to the challenge [email protected] Tim On the Origin of Species. The list of climate change.” Hawley writes: “My son, John, was of speakers can be found at co-valedictorian of Middletown High www.universityforum.appstate.edu School, a National Merit Scholar, and includes two Pulitzer Prize- Chemistry Olympiad state champion, winning authors.” Joanne Polayes math team captain, and he played
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Zealand; working for a natural resources consulting company, a high-end travel company and a 1978 building design firm in Boston. Class Secretaries When she conceived the idea to actually build her own house, she took a two-week home Susan Curnan design class offered by yestermorrow.org, which was founded by a group of architects “exploring [email protected] the very fertile junction of design/build/sustainability,” Turnbull says. Marie Magleby Turnbull is studying for a master’s degree in environmental management, focusing particularly [email protected] on the intersection between business and the environment at F&ES, with the goal of learning more Regina Rochefort [email protected] about greening the built environment. “It’s the best school for what I want to do,” she says. “The Ed Hogan writes: “I have been in the [environment] school has a great connection to the business school, and it’s forward-thinking private practice of environmental law and solutions-oriented.” for the past 27 years; here in New “It’s been a very public design and building process, and the house is much more interesting, Jersey for the past 25. I have had a great practice and really enjoy what I much better-designed and much more creative than it would have been if I’d been building in a do. Most of my work has involved vacuum,” she says. “There’s been great volunteer support, donations, curiosity, interest and ideas.” dealing with the legal issues involved The house was hauled by a trailer to Yale in October. It uses passive solar heating, so Turnbull in the remediation, purchase and sale of contaminated industrial properties. says she can position the high wall to the south in the winter for maximum solar heat and then In the ’80s and ’90s, that involved rotate it 180 degrees in the summer, turning the high wall to the north to keep her home cooler. primarily industrial-to-industrial use, Her desks fold down Murphy-style, enabling a maximum workspace of 18 square feet, which is but for the past 10 years or so it has turned to redevelopment of these massive for the size of the interior space. And she’s euphoric about her combination stove and properties to commercial and resi- oven, which is smaller than a two-foot cube. “It’s just a tiny little thing; it’s so cute!” She also dential (multifamily) uses. I find has a lot of shelf space and a 3 foot by 7 foot storage loft above the door, as well as the bathroom myself frequently drawing on what I learned in a number of my F&ES and a closet wardrobe that she built. “So I had to be thoughtful about what I brought, and it courses. In my work, I also deal with turns out that there’s enough room.” She uses a marine cooler now but hopes to get a solar- a broad range of other environmental powered refrigerator down the road. matters concerning endangered The bathroom is the tiniest room in the tiny house. It measures 3 feet by 3 feet, but will species, wetlands, coastal land use and stormwater. On the nonprofit eventually host a yacht-style wetbath. side, I am a member of the board of The house is located near F&ES, and she’ll have close access to a bathroom in a host house. directors of the New Jersey Audubon She has water for cooking and drinking but not for washing. The siting would determine whether Society, and was previously on the board of the New Jersey Forestry she would be able to put in a composting toilet and a sustainable gray water management system. Association.” Tom Rumpf is an “Waiting for a ruling from zoning boards and [figuring out] legal issues, like how to insure it, was associate state director of The Nature a big part of the learning process for me.” Conservancy in Maine. Tom and TNC in Maine, along with other private Not only does the house use minimal construction materials, but Turnbull says she paid a lot and public conservation partners, of attention to the kind of materials she used. Most of the wood is FSC (Forest Stewardship received a Cooperative Conservation Council)-certified, which added about $250 to the cost of the wood she purchased. “To know Award from the Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne, for the that it came from a forest that was well-managed and supported regeneration,” she says, “I felt Penobscot River Restoration Project, great about it.” The exterior paint was low on volatile organic compounds (VOC), and the interior the largest river restoration project paint didn’t have any VOCs. “I used only four gallons of paint on the outside,” she says, “so I east of the Mississippi. The awards were recently announced at a cele- could afford to go with one of the more expensive paints.” bration of a major step in the project, The insulation was donated by a company that uses post-industrial waste soy oil in place of which is the execution of options to 30 percent of the petroleum in standard insulation, creating a foam that’s highly energy efficient. purchase three hydro dams on the river for $25 million from PPL Turnbull says she held five building parties on summer weekends, and spurred by the first in Maine. When completed in three to a series of articles in a local Massachusetts-area newspaper, the majority of people who showed four years, the project will open up up at the first one were strangers. She gives special credit to a young man, Andy Vecchione, who an additional 1,000 miles of habitat for 11 different species of diadramous came to check out the project and returned almost every day to help convert Turnbull’s dream fish in Maine’s largest river. into reality. She says he had a lot more building and design experience than she did, adding, “There were four hands working on the house most of the time, and the other two belonged to 1979 30th Reunion Year someone who’s way more capable and has a significantly better three-dimensional brain than I Class Secretary John Carey do. I joke with Andy that without him the house would be basically ashes and tears.” [email protected]
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1980 the National Science Foundation, the 1982 National Institutes of Health and
class Class Secretary Class Secretaries other federal agencies. He is the Sara Schreiner-Kendall Barbara Hansen founder and director of the Tree [email protected] [email protected] Genomics and Biosafety Research Tricia Johnson writes: “I finished my Cooperative, composed of biotechnol- Kenneth Osborn fifth year of teaching this past June. I ogy companies and forest industries, [email protected] took my biodiversity class on our which focuses on reducing ecological Junaid Choudhury writes that he annual field trip to Great Mountain risks of genetically engineered trees. has worked on the National Forest Forest, where Star Childs led us on He also created and directed the NSF Assessment and Forestry Outlook a great field tour. My boyfriend of six Industry-University Research Center Report 2020 for the Food and years, Robert Johnson, and I were on Tree Genetics in 1999, a multiu- Agriculture Organization. After his married on August 2 in a ceremony niversity center. Jim Thorne and retirement in 2000 as conservator of at the Pine Orchard Chapel in Rosemary FitzGerald visited Suey forests for Bangladesh, he joined the Branford, near where we live. We Braatz and Laura Snook, D.F. ’93, in International Union for Conservation sailed off into the sunset aboard our Rome in June. Suey led a field trip to of Nature and worked as head of 37-foot Tartan sailboat for a two-week Umbria. Ecosystem & Landscape Management honeymoon cruise. I teach science at until 2004. He joined Pakistan’s Common Ground High School in 1981 Forest Service in 1967. His wife, New Haven, which was founded by Juliana, and he live in Dhaka, and Class Secretaries Oliver Barton ’94.” Patti Kolb Fred Hadley they have two daughters, Junna, a Millet writes: “I left the Forest [email protected] sociologist in Sydney, Australia, and Service this year on a disability retire- Juhaina, an environmentalist who ment after having hip replacement Carol Youell [email protected] works for the British government in surgery in November and in antici- London.” Evan DeLucia writes: pation of future knee replacement— Ann Clarke, D.F.E.S. ’92, is the “Our older son, Nicholas, starts his too risky to continue with fieldwork. environmental chief at NASA Ames sophomore year in college, and our I fell in love with Mabou, Cape Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. younger son, Michael, begins his Breton, Nova Scotia, a few years ago John Echeverria writes: “After senior year in high school. After on the basis of the fiddle music and serving as executive director of the serving as head of the department of step dance, the warm ocean water Georgetown Environmental Law & Plant Biology at the University of and the genuinely friendly people I Policy Institute at Georgetown Illinois for seven years, I am stepping met. So I bought a store this spring University Law Center for 12 years, down this fall to assume the director- and opened Nest, which sells I will join the faculty of the Vermont ship of the School of Integrative jewelry, gifts and home decor inspired Law School as a professor of law in Biology. An unexpected honor by nature. It will be a seasonal busi- September 2009.” Thea Weiss bestowed on me this year was an ness for about five years, with Jack (Tarbet) Hayes is a 16-year science appointment as the G. William holding down the fort in California teacher at Marysville School in Arends Professor of Biology. This until the store gets going and we get Portland, Ore. She will be working prestigious endowed position will immigration status, at which time with the Portland Bureau of provide additional financial support we plan to move here permanently.” Environmental Services, Johnson for my laboratory, which examines Charlie Nilon writes: “I’m starting Creek Watershed Council, METRO, physiological and ecosystem responses my 19th year as a faculty member in Oregon Sea Grant, Oregon Health to global change. I have initiated a the Department of Fisheries and Sciences University and Portland major new research program exam- Wildlife Sciences at the University of General Electric in her service learn- ining the ecological consequences of Missouri. Thirty years ago this week ing and research projects with 7th- the widespread deployment of biofuel I was in the middle of the second and 8th-grade students. She is the crops on the landscape. Leslie and I week of the modules and roaming proud mother of Hanna, 20, a Sign often visit Ed Ionata on our travels around the Yale golf course with Language Interpretation program east to visit family.” Laura Snook, D.F. ’93, and Marc college student, and Rachel, 12, a Groff ’81.” Steven Strauss is a budding cook and David Douglas 1983 professor of genetics and molecular Swim Club team member. She is Class Secretary and cellular biology in Oregon State happily married to Angel, a Stephen Broker University’s College of Forestry. The mechanical engineering student and [email protected] July issue of The Forestry Source engineering technician. Keith Tait is reports that he was recently awarded an EHS director at SUNY Plattsburgh. Stephen Blackmer writes: “I left as the title of distinguished professor. He He was recently featured in an article president of the Northern Forest is the author of nearly 160 scholarly in the Plattsburgh Press Republican Center in April and will spend 2008- papers, has delivered more than 170 about greening the campus. 2009 as a Bullard Fellow with the invited lectures and raised more than Harvard Forest, based in Cambridge. $14 million in research funding from During the year at Harvard, I’ll
38 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies explore the growing interest in con- produce house plans for realtors, Riedy writes: “I’m living on the necting environment and spirituality, appraisers and architects occupies central coast of California (50 miles including how I can more fully the latter part of the day. Golf figures south of San Francisco) with my integrate my own spiritual interests in there somewhere. The days at wife and 4-year-old daughter. I work with my work in conservation. On F&ES were great and are never far from home developing and imple- the home front, both kids are away, from my mind.” menting philanthropic programs to traveling and in college, and my support land conservation in wife, Kelly, continues her conserva- 1984 25th Reunion Year California.” [email protected] tion communications work.” Class Secretaries Susan (Huke) Stein is managing [email protected] Mary Ann the “Forests on the Edge” project for Therese Feng Visit the Yale Fajvan writes: “Since 2004, I have [email protected] the U.S. Forest Service. She works been a research silviculturist with the with scientists throughout the Forest School of Forestry USFS Northern Research Station. Roberta Tabell Jordan Service and others to produce publi- Even though I am stationed in West [email protected] cations that draw attention to the & Environmental Virginia, some of my field studies of Shere Abbott notes that she left D.C. importance of conserving forests. Studies website at hemlock woolly adelgid allow me to three years ago for Austin, Texas— Susan and husband Bruce are enjoying travel to southern New England, a funky, blue blip in the state. She’s raising their two boys, Ben, 9, and environment.yale.edu where I run into other alumni and directing the Center for Science and Noah, 7, and getting them and their forestry friends from Yale and the Practice of Sustainability in the new field spaniel out in the woods as University of Maine. I was elected provost’s office at the University much as possible. chair of the Allegheny Society of of Texas at Austin and co-chairs American Foresters, and I am honored the President’s Task Force on 1985 to be joining the ranks of other F&ES Sustainability, which is focusing on Class Secretary alumni who have held this position, reducing the campus’ carbon foot- Alex Brash including Gifford Pinchot, who was print and developing a campus cul- [email protected] the first chair from 1922 to 1923.” ture of sustainability. Her husband, Domenic Forcella is on sabbatical Jim Steinberg, is the dean of the LBJ Gaie Alling writes: “I am president from his position as an environmental School of Public Affairs. Shelley of the Biosphere Foundation, which health and safety officer at Central Dresser and Dave Gagnon ’85 are has several projects to inspire intelli- Connecticut State University. He will living happily ever after in gent stewardship of our biosphere, be working on college sustainability Brattleboro, Vt., with their three and have been engaged with the issues and the role of the EH&S staff. kids, Heather, Alex and Hope. Planetary Coral Reef Foundation. I am He is serving his last year as a board Shelley obtained another master’s in living in California with my partner, member of the Blues Foundation in education from Smith College and is and my son is a musician in college.” teaching mathematics at Eaglebrook www.biospherefoundation.org Memphis and is writing a blues column for daily papers around School, an all-boys independent Ed Backus writes: “I am living on Connecticut called Blues Beat. boarding school in Deerfield, Mass. the Oregon coast, in Newport, with Bob Glass writes: “I’ve been at Dave is the interim executive director my wife Jessica, a professor of marine Sandia National Laboratories for the at the Organic Trade Association, a fisheries ecology at Oregon State past 20 years. In the last few, I’ve national trade group, and he also University. I am the vice president moved away from subsurface flow serves on several boards. The for fisheries at Ecotrust. I am working and transport (primarily the vadose Gagnon-Dresser family spends a on the development of market zone) and on to complex adaptive good deal of time with Anita and approaches to fisheries bycatch (cap systems that include human and Ned Childs ’83 and their family in and trade) in the Bering Sea, and social response. As a part of the Dummerston, Vt., all having enjoyed have also developed a mission loan National Infrastructure Simulation Schroon Lake in the Adirondacks fund for financing community fish- and Analysis Center, I’m working on this summer. Rose Harvey is the eries trusts to acquire fisheries quotas Trust for Public Land’s Mid-Atlantic along the West Coast and Alaska.” problems that range from thwarting the next influenza pandemic to pre- regional director. The trust’s work on Brent Bailey writes: “I’m living in venting congestion and cascading in an ambitious plan to acquire thou- Morgantown, W.Va., a small postin- financial payment systems. I’ve started sands of acres along the shore of the dustrial university-centered river to turn my attention to the global Chesapeake Bay and five of its largest town 75 miles south of Pittsburgh, energy system and the constraints on tributaries for conversion to public with my wife, Liz, and two daughters, acceptance of global carbon treaties.” park land was highlighted in the July Zannah, 17, and Lily, 12. I am director Paul Watson writes: “Retired, 14, 2008, edition of The Baltimore of the Appalachia Program with The remarried and relaxed in Victoria, Sun. “The concept,” Rose is quoted Mountain Institute, a conservation B.C. I’m not doing any more forestry as saying, “is parks for people that and community development activities, but the environment is will in turn protect the bay. We call it nonprofit. My time is occupied by always on my mind. Online stock green-printing.” Environmental offi- environmental education and citizen trading is a pleasant way to spend cials have said they plan to focus on science programs for teachers and the mornings. Measuring houses to water quality and habitat in deciding students, management of a high- which land to purchase. Nobby elevation preserve, a landfill methane
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project, fund-raising to support ing to ecosystem carbon dynamics. Nico will complete his bachelor’s in programs and a staff of about 20. Haydi Boething Danielson has international studies this winter.
class Outside of work, I am on the town’s spent the last 10 years running a Caroline Eliot worked on land use tree board and the Stewardship private K-8 school in Santa Cruz, and natural resource issues facing Council of the Appalachian Trail but is stepping aside because she Maine’s North Woods, but left to Conservancy and am a nontenured and her family are moving to the take care of her kids. Deborah faculty member in biology at West Carmel area. She plans to work a Fleischer has a consulting practice, Virginia University. I garden, bake, few days a week with the family tree Green Impact, to provide services in hike and watch birds.” Helen nursery, helping out in production sustainability strategy, program Ballew writes: “I’m getting a graduate planning, process improvement and development and written communi- degree in education. My aim is to team building at the two northern cations. She recently helped launch knit together my 15 years of profes- California locations. Louise de The Institute at the Golden Gate. sional experience in conservation Montigny has conducted silviculture J.B. Friday writes: “Greetings from and environmental protection with my research with the B.C. Ministry of Hilo, Hawaii, where Katie Friday long-time (volunteer) commitment to Forests for the past 17 years. Her and I have lived for the past 10 inner-city public schools in order to husband, Raoul, is the director of years. I’m the extension forester for help push back against our culture’s the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre in the University of Hawaii. Most of my growing alienation from nature. I’ll Victoria; their oldest son, Jaspar, is work these days involves restoration be teaching K-8 science for a while. in his second year of mathematics at and management of native Hawaiian I’m married to David, chair of biology the University of Victoria; and their forests. I also work with people who at Trinity, and our three strong little youngest son, Oliver, is a high school are growing high-value tropical tim- women—all bilingual—are thriving junior. Jock Conyngham writes: bers on former croplands or doing at ages 7, 9 and 12. World travels in “I am a research ecologist for the agroforestry. I’m cooperating on a recent years have taken us to South USACE Environmental Lab in Evaro, native forest restoration project in Africa (twice), Tanzania and central Mont., office in Missoula. I work on Palau, Guam, which is the most Mexico.” [email protected] dam removal, river and riparian beautiful set of islands I’ve ever seen Dorie Bolze is the executive direc- restoration and fisheries restoration. after Hawaii, and I was able to visit tor of a Nashville conservation I also run a consulting business that the village in the Philippines where organization, the Harpeth River keeps my field skills up and my we were Peace Corps volunteers over Watershed Association. Her kids are hands dirty. The money is good and, 20 years ago. My son, Nathanael, 15, now in middle and high school. at this point, I only agree to fun or is a sophomore in our local high Rick Boyce got tenure a few years strange projects. I’m a faculty affiliate school, and Hilda, 9, plays soccer ago at Northern Kentucky University, at the University of Montana.” and reads.” Katie Friday writes: “I and his boys, Nathan, 14, and Seth, Jeff Diehl writes: “In 1997, I co- am working with the Forest Service 10, are in Cincinnati with his wife, founded Albion Environmental, a in Hawaii, American Samoa and Martha. On sabbatical this fall, Rick consulting firm that does biological Micronesia, trying to bridge the will be in Burlington, Vt., studying and archaeological studies. I no longer serious cultural differences between the effects of calcium deficiency on get to do fieldwork, but I’m having a federal bureaucracy and indigenous spruce and fir in northern New blast running a small company. We value systems. My favorite projects England. Alex Brash is the N.E. have about 30 employees and three are internship programs and train- Regional Director for the National offices in northern and central ing. Some of our major areas of Parks Conservation Association, an California. Life is good in Santa Cruz. emphasis are mangrove conservation, organization dedicated to protecting I live in a great neighborhood three watershed restoration, agroforestry our national parks. He lives in an old blocks from the beach and a 10- and invasive-species control. I visit Victorian house in Riverside, Conn., minute bike ride from my office. Rob, Maine at least once a year, and it is with wonderful partner Jane and my partner, graduated with a Duke deeply encouraging to see how much their kids. Among other projects, MBA and has worked in corporate recovery has taken place since I was Alex edited and published a com- finance with HP. He’ll be ordained as a kid—more rivers are swimmable, pendium on the natural history of an Episcopal priest in the coming and there are more eagles and New York City. He also worked with year.” Chris Donnelly is an urban ospreys. My father has Parkinson’s an array of alumni to hold a confer- forester with Connecticut DEP. J.J. and in the couple of years since his ence in Acadia in October on the Earhart is chair of the Global diagnosis, we squeezed in extended- future of Maine’s North Woods. Environment Fund and works on its family canoe trips on the east branch Jim Coleman, Ph.D. ’87, is vice $350 million emerging markets of the Penobscot and the Allagash.” provost for research at Rice University. forestry fund with the firm of Clark Tara Gallagher writes: “Life on the Adele, his wife, is still living in Binkley ’79. With his wife, Analia, J.J. North Shore with Steve’s and my Missouri, and stepson Chuck is in spends half the year in Buenos Aires three boys is good. This year I started Reno, so Houston has been an and the other half in Portland, Ore. consulting with Pure Strategies, adjustment. Jim and Jay Arnone ’81, His kids are finishing up at university, specialists in corporate sustainability Ph.D. ’88, collaborated on a paper where Sara just received her master’s consulting. It has been interesting to published in Nature in early fall relat- degree in marine conservation and take all those years of working in
40 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies state government and apply what I’ve University of Connecticut; his son is New Hampshire Forester of the Year learned to a comparable set of prob- in the Air Force, having gone to Iraq in 2004. Molly Harriss Olson works lems. I’ve also been teaching part in October after serving in on a National Business Leaders Forum Visit the Yale time at Salem State for the past four Afghanistan for three years; and his on Sustainable Development, which years. I’m getting my mom finally youngest daughter just finished at brought Al Gore to Australia in School of Forestry settled in an assisted-living place the University of Connecticut. 2003, and she has an article coming near me, and it was a major feat rep- Gretchen Meyer is managing the out in Austral Ecology, as well as a & Environmental resenting a few years of U.N.-worthy field station for the University of book called Ten Commitments: Studies website at negotiations. I imagine I’m not alone Wisconsin-Milwaukee that is located Reshaping the Lucky Country’s in facing such issues.” Mark north of Milwaukee. She is responsi- Environment. She and her husband environment.yale.edu Judelson writes: “Anna and I are in ble for administering programs, have two boys, Atticus, 10, and Chestnut Ridge, N.Y. I am the execu- teaching occasionally and advising Aaron, 8, and live in a little historic tive director of the Arts Council of students. She served as a host for the rural village called Gundaroo just Rockland, where I’ve been for 14 recent Ecological Society of America outside Canberra. Lorna Perkins is years. My connection to the woods is meeting in Milwaukee and, with her a mother of two, wife of David for maintained—still cutting and selling husband Fred, enjoys bicycling and 23 years, teaches biology part time at firewood and playing with the swimming in the summer and skiing Salem State College and is a freelance Paulownia I’ve planted and tended at and ice skating in the winter. Rolfe editor. Whitney Tilt leads the my home. For the past 11 years, I’ve Larson writes: “I created my own Everlands Conservation Initiative, written and performed several one- consulting business, serving non- which is an equity-based club for man shows telling true stories of profits, and teach marketing and those who share a love of the out- individuals who respond to violence entrepreneurship at the University of doors while being committed to giving and genocide with artistic and peace- St. Thomas in Minneapolis. I also something back in the form of ful gestures. I’ve received four grants wrote a book on business ventures conservation and stewardship. to perform in high schools and pris- for nonprofits, and was lucky to get Kathy Schwartz Spencer writes: ons. Anna directs a Suzuki program, Paul Newman of Newman’s Own to “Our son, Will, is a freshman at teaches violin, performs and con- endorse it. My consulting work led Cornell. There is a lot of excitement ducts a youth orchestra. Our daugh- me to a wide variety of interesting, for all he will learn and discover, ter Maija, 32, directs a Suzuki pro- effective and sometimes struggling mixed with profound sadness for us gram in Newton, Mass., teaches vio- nonprofits around the United States, as parents, as we close the door on lin and performs in and conducts an all seeking to incorporate or expand this chapter of our family life. We adult orchestra. Max, 20, after two earned-income strategies to help them have our daughter, Christie, 16, but years of working as a bike messenger pursue their social or environmental really need to get rolling on her in Paris and Manhattan, is about to mission. Most of my environmental college search almost immediately. I begin at the Boston Conservatory of work has been done as a volunteer. work part time (about three days a Music, where he will study classical After graduate school, I worked for week) as the environmental specialist bass. Anna and I visited Ruth Yanai, almost 10 years as a senior manager with a planning/grant-writing firm in Ph.D. ’90, who threw me regular life- at Minnesota Public Radio. My major Rochester, N.Y. We work mainly with lines in Binkley’s class. I’m still grate- focus was developing successful small upstate New York communities, ful to her.” www.storiesofpeace.com earned-income ventures for MPR. I helping them get funds to build Asmeen Khan is still hard at work also served for six years on the board public water and sewer utilities. A for the World Bank. After a few years of The Nature Conservancy in couple of years ago, we were acquired at the Trust for Public Land in New Minnesota, I was the board chair by an engineering firm, so our projects York City, Evelyn Lee took time off during our successful capital cam- are widening in scope. I also volunteer to take care of her family. Her oldest paign to raise more than $15 million with our local land trust, which was daughter, Bonnie, is now entering for conservation acquisitions and established just after I moved to her junior year at Yale as an EEB maintenance in Minnesota and the Rochester about 20 years ago. My major, while her younger daughter, region and I guided a process that husband, Tim, works for Kodak.” Emily, is entering senior year of high led to investing a portion of this [email protected] David school. While on sabbatical, Evelyn endowment to support conservation Steckel writes: “I have worked for wrote two books for the Soundprints in Guatemala. After leaving MPR in Natural Lands Trust—a regional land habitat series for children. Last sum- 1995, I married and moved to trust focused on eastern Pennsylvania mer, she undertook a greenhouse gas Denver. Last year, Peg and I adopted and southern New Jersey—and lived emissions inventory for the Regional an incredible girl, Mariela, from in southeastern Pennsylvania since Plan Association. Stephen Lowrey of Guatemala.” Jon Nute has had a graduation. The first 20 years were Tolland, Conn., is in municipal plan- 20-year career with the University of spent in the stewardship department ning and has helped add over 800 New Hampshire Cooperative as director of land stewardship. I acres of open space to the town and Extension. He and wife, Anne, live now divide my time between the wrote regulations to encourage open near Concord, and their daughter, development and planning depart- space. His older daughter is working Sarah, is at UNH. Jon was honored ments. My wife, Claudia, is a consult- on a master’s in entomology at the as the Society of American Foresters’ ing botanist. We live in Allentown,
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where we spend much time caring climate-change emissions mitigation. as well as large river conservation for home, gardens and aging rela- About five of us are developing the projects on the Mississippi and class tives.” Gregor Wolf writes: “After Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, a Missouri rivers. Nell and I live in nearly 10 years in Brazil, initially $300 million partnership fund Duluth, Minn., on Lake Superior. I with the German Development Bank among developing countries with am playing bagpipes and have joined and then the World Bank, where I ran tropical forests, donor countries and the Minnesota Police Pipe Band, the G-7 Pilot Program to Protect the the bank to reduce deforestation at which is headed to the World Brazilian Rainforests, I am at World the national scale, use remote sens- Championships in 2010. My son starts Bank headquarters in Washington, ing to monitor reductions and then college this year, so I am feeling old.” D.C. After a two-year stint in our create a carbon asset to be traded on Michael Wells is a freelance con- forest policy team at the World international markets in the post- sultant on international environmental Bank’s Environment Department, I Kyoto Protocol climate regime.” topics from his home in Norway, now was promoted to sector leader in [email protected] Dave aided and abetted by two teenage charge of the bank’s project portfolio Braun is a tree and forest consultant daughters. Recent assignments have for infrastructure, energy, rural devel- in Hood River, Ore. Work includes included leading independent evalu- opment and the environment. I am native plant restoration and forest ations of the Critical Ecosystem married and have two boys, Alex, 11, fuels treatment; he enjoys climbing Partnership Fund; the Gordon and and Sam, 13. Ruth Yanai, Ph.D. ’90, around in trees as part of the diagnosis Betty Moore Foundation’s grants to writes: “I’m at the Ecosystem Center of health or hazard issues. He does Conservation International; UNDP’s of the Marine Biological Laboratory in research on bark beetles and eco- $3 billion global environment and Woods Hole, Mass., for the semester restoration, is developing techniques energy program; and the Millennium (sabbaticals are a nice feature of aca- for making wildlife trees with Ecosystem Assessment. Other demic life), and my daughter Nora is Timothy Brown and is co-authoring clients include the World Bank’s in her first school. I have projects at a book on the same with Tim, Chris Development Marketplace, NORAD the Hubbard Brook Experimental Maser and Bill Laudenslayer. He just and a variety of Global Environment Forest, and I work with Tom landed a contract with Tim to diver- Facility activities, including the flag- Siccama, Mary Arthur ’83 and Steve sify a 40-year-old montane conifer ship GEF Small Grants Programme. Hamburg ’77, Ph.D. ’84. I’m most forest by putting in about 50 small These have provided rich opportuni- excited about an experiment to test stand openings—at 40 to 60 feet off ties to interact with dedicated environ- whether forests are approaching the ground to leave vertical structure mentalists carrying out marvelous phosphorus limitation after all the for habitat. Becky, his partner, is a work worldwide, including F&ES nitrogen we’ve been applying in air nurse practitioner at the regional jail alumni. Family vacations have pro- pollution.” Steve Young writes: “I (NORCOR). Son Zev, 15, will give vided a critical balance, most recently, am living on the North Shore of you a Halo tutorial or trombone sea kayaking among killer whales Massachusetts with Tara (Gallagher) lesson—your choice.” Eric north of Vancouver Island in British and our three boys, Dylan, 14, Carlson and his consultancy E2C2 Columbia. Nathan, 9, and Joshua, 9. I am chair provide LEED, green-building and of the Department of Geography at advisory services for numerous 1987 Salem State College (one of the pub- public projects in the mid-Atlantic Class Secretaries lic colleges of Massachusetts). I love region. He is also a senior advisor to Christie Coon working at SSC and in geography. a green-business startup in Portland, [email protected] My specialty is satellite imaging and Ore., called Shorepower. He is an global vegetation change. One of my adjunct professor at the Corcoran Melissa Paly projects is the Earth Exposed, an art College of Art & Design in [email protected] gallery exhibition that explains how Washington, D.C., where he teaches Jean Brennan is senior climate change geographers study the Earth from sustainable practices for designers. scientist of the science program at space. The show has traveled to a www.e2c2inc.com; www.shorepow- Defenders of Wildlife. She has been few East Coast cities, the headquar- er.com Maggie Coon celebrated 20 recognized for her vital contributions ters of the National Science years with The Nature Conservancy. as part of the Intergovernmental Foundation, Australia and, in In the past five years, she’s been Panel on Climate Change that August, Tunisia.” deeply involved in the creation and helped win the 2007 Nobel Peace leadership of the Washington Prize for the IPCC. As science officer 1986 Biodiversity Council, charged by the for the U.S. Department of State, Ken Andrasko writes: “I’m living in governor with safeguarding Office of Global Change, she was Washington, D.C., with my wife, Washington’s natural heritage. part of a federal interagency working Julie, and our two daughters. I left Tom Duffus writes: “I am the group and a member of the U.S. del- the EPA to join the World Bank and Upper Midwest Director with The egation at international negotiations work in the innovative carbon Conservation Fund and am having of the Intergovernmental Panel on finance unit that manages $2 billion fun with some large forestland con- Climate Change under the U.N. in funds and projects that address servation projects in the Great Lakes, Framework Convention on Climate Change. She also coordinated tech-
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explicit, specific and decisive entry into the biotic community and prompted life-long nical reviews and submissions on philosophical and moral reflections. In one sense, the biotic community and predator-prey behalf of the United States to the relations are amoral, natural realities and processes spawned by the Crafty Blind Tinkerer IPCC and U.S. Interagency Technical (Darwin’s nature). However, for us humans, biotic communities and natural processes have Advisory Team on the IPCC Special Report & Publications: Aviation and come to hold a deep, complex cultural and moral significance. We know, however imper- the Global Atmosphere; Land Use, fectly, that these processes are how Earthly life, including human life, comes into being—an Land-Use Change and Forestry; Earthly life laced with innumerable values moral and other (aesthetic and spiritual, centrally Technology Transfer; and Emission Scenarios. Julie Dunlap, Ph.D. ’87, concerning life’s innumerable and incredible forms, capacities and interactions). This writes: “I got to visit Anne Hooker amounts to stunning, bedrock philosophic and spiritual revelation. We also know that all Clarke ’81, D.F.E.S. ’92, in California these values, forms, capacities and interactions are mortal, finite and vulnerable to harm. this summer, and we visited Yosemite and the Mariposa Big Trees Why might recognition of our aboriginal status in nature, our membership in the biotic together.” Anne Hartley writes: community—prompted by hunting, fishing or whatever other means—matter so much? “I’ve joined the faculty of Florida Precisely because the recognition so radically underscores our moral situation and demands Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers. It’s the youngest Florida state univer- that we face squarely ultimate responsibilities. There are several forms of stewardship or sity, and its mission is environmental caretaker ethics which enjoin us to care for the Earth and all the creatures that dwell therein. sustainability and service learning. I’m But if we do not explicitly and emphatically count ourselves as among Earth’s creatures and a new member of Coastal Watershed Institute, a group of exceptional as integral participants in Earthly communities, we all too easily let ourselves off the moral marine scientists working on prob- hook. We consider nature as not essentially mattering to us humans. However, if we own lems of nutrient loading, harmful up to our membership in the biotic community, we must recognize that we are a central algal blooms and fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico.” Joshua Royte and significant factor in immediate and future threats to nature and, ultimately, to ourselves. focuses on large forest conservation For example, there are too many of us human ones (6-plus billion and growing) in projects and the Penobscot River Earth’s biotic communities, consuming too many of its material resources and wreaking too Restoration project, a massive project much havoc to ongoing evolutionary and ecological processes. What are we going to do to restore millions of sea-run fish to Maine’s largest river, for The Nature about this daunting human overreaching and natural injustice? No doubt the Earth and Conservancy in Maine. His primary evolutionary, ecological processes will survive our human onslaught, perhaps with a new role for the conservancy is ensuring abundance of biological species, but at what cost? What goodness and values, including that baseline measures are in place before dam removal begins and coor- those of human life, painstakingly evolved over natural (evolutionary, ecological and geo- dinating the identification and miti- logical) and cultural time, will be lost? Ought we to collectively condone such moral and gation of hundreds of smaller barriers spiritual guilt, such sins against Earthly life and being? in the watershed with federal, state and other NGO partners. Josh lives If deep, existential recognition of our charter membership in the biotic community happily with his wife, Leigh Baker, in would help to stem this disastrous moral slide, then we must morally educate, or re-educate, Yarmouth, Maine, and they had the ourselves in a hurry. If hunting and fishing, among other means, are effective avenues to opportunity to get together in August with the families of Laura explicit recognition of membership in the biotic community and its attendant moral Falk McCarthy, Libby Moore and responsibilities, then readers of Leopold should move past their ethical puzzlement and Bobby Moore ’86, and Melissa Paly ponder anew his and others’ hunting and fishing in their widest, biotic-community contexts. at Melissa’s home in Kittery Point, Maine. Joel Seton writes: Nature’s complex, dynamic and uncontrollable interconnectedness and interactions defy “Greetings from the Setons in moral simplicity, easily drawn bright lines between good and bad, right and wrong. If we Jerusalem. Laura and I are enjoying are morally going to return to our native home and community, we need to grow up, our second year of marriage. I run a tour company that brings people culturally and morally. from abroad for study tours of Israel. In marginalizing our membership in biotic communities and, specifically, our implication Laura does freelance writing and in predator-prey relations, we marginalize central, fundamental moral issues that already editing, in addition to writing songs in English and Hebrew and other confront us. Let me be more specific, at risk of repetition. creative pursuits. We love the fasci- In the United States and elsewhere, whether by intentional design or not, we have extir- nating historical sites, dynamic cul- pated large predators from their native landscapes and ecosystems, with real, usually negative, ture and great hiking routes in this ecologically diverse and beautiful consequences. Consider metropolitan areas—Chicago, New York and others—with newly country. We are also involved with engendered species and ecosystem problems, for example, an overabundance of deer, the Yale Club of Israel.” continued on next page
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Canada geese and even wild turkeys. This overabundance threatens regional flora and fauna, as well as human well-being (Lyme disease, car accidents and more). What should 1988 we do in the absence of former large predators that were a natural check to species over- Class Secretaries abundance? Arguably, we must take over their roles in keeping regional ecosystems healthy Diane Stark and resilient. For the sake of the biotic community as a whole, we should cull the super- [email protected] abundance by whatever means we deem most morally appropriate and acceptable. The roles Holly Welles of these large predators have become our moral responsibilities. [email protected] But this is only the beginning of our responsibilities as members of the biotic community. Jeffrey Campbell is the director of grant-making for The Christensen Actually, it is not the deer, geese or turkeys that are the greatest threats to regional landscapes Fund. Born in the Himalayas and and ecosystems. That prize emphatically goes to us. Again, despite the significant, innumer- raised in the Punjab, Jeff has spent able and distinctive values of human existence, what are we going to do about our own most of his life in South Asia and assumes his responsibilities with The superabundance and overpopulation of biotic communities, our overuse of their life-giving Christensen Fund after 17 years at resources, our pollution and disturbance of natural structures and processes? As members the Ford Foundation, serving as pro- of biotic communities, from the regional to the global, as in fact the community’s most gram officer for environment and development programs in India and effective large predators, we cannot in good conscience evade these facts and attendant Nepal (1991-1996) and Indonesia responsibilities. Of course, this is exactly what we are doing. Whether out of ignorance, (1997-2000) and then as program neglect or willful amoral intention, the reigning large predators (ourselves) are undeniably officer, deputy director and senior program officer in the New York and inexcusably irresponsible. Here is an issue that we must not duck, but resolve humanly Office (2000-2008). An accomplished —that is, responsibly. musician and multi-instrumentalist Consider further ramifications of our present irresponsibility. Given our status in evolu- in classical and vernacular South tionary, ecological and biotic communities, to undermine biotic communities is to undermine Asian traditions, as well as in con- temporary improvisational forms, he and threaten the future of humanity, its very bodily being, the quality of its life and whatever records with the band Orchestra naïf, important capacities and values—from the bodily, psychic and mental to the moral, artistic, and recent albums include Auf aesthetic, spiritual and other—it harbors. Robust, biologically and culturally diverse com- Garde; Les Bonbons; and Over an Hour. Stephen Gorman writes: munities are as necessary to our inner selfhood and well-being as they are to our physically “I’ve been working as a writer and active bodies. We, our whole selves, emerge out of the world—natural and cultural—and photographer for various adventure do so ongoing until we die. To impoverish biological and cultural communities is to impov- and environmental publications, such as The Discovery Channel, the erish ourselves. National Geographic Society, In short, to continue in our present cultural, political, economic and moral ways—not Audubon, Sierra and many others. to recognize ourselves as predatory organisms with a long evolutionary, ecological and I’ve also produced a number of large- format color photo books, with Earthly past, that is, as members of biotic communities—amounts to a form of nihilism, a several more in production. This willful destruction of Earthly, including human, values. If some find this ironic, odd or, work, which was helped along by the indeed, blasphemous, so be it. It is, as far as we can see, the truth. social ecology classes I took at Yale, has allowed me to travel extensively Did my own road of moral and philosophic reflection begin, at least in part, in hunting throughout the North American Hennepin’s Windblown Bottoms? If so, what role does hunting, fishing or predation, in wilds in search of images and stories, general, have in the genesis of civically important philosophic and moral landscapes and it continues to provide me with opportunities to explore the places I (worldviews)? Leopold and other Darwinian naturalists, as champions of temporally deep long to see. The last few years my biotic communities, would no doubt answer unequivocally a great deal, certainly more than work has centered on the Alaskan urban, human-centered citizens might think. (The religious practices and rituals of tradi- and Canadian High Arctic from ANWR to the Northwest Passage tional, especially hunter and gatherer, societies evidence as much.) The relatively unexplored and beyond. I see a lot of Melissa relations of human predation (an inescapable fact of our existence) to the recognition of Paly ’87 and her wonderful family at our deepest Earthly, moral responsibilities is a matter worth further pondering, hopefully their place in Maine or in the White Mountains; and Steve and Cilla informing evermore adequate practical and civic action. Kellert ’81 are practically neighbors at their hideaway just over the ridge from my wife, Mary, and me and two dogs in Norwich, Vt.” Karen LeAnn McKay writes: “I have been managing a nonprofit fair trade store
44 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in Portland for the last several years. 1989 20th Reunion Year consultant. Since early 2008, she has I’m now in Indonesia looking at fair been managing a project titled Class Secretaries trade and forestry stuff, before I leave “Adapting to Climate Change in Susan Campbell the store manager position to Asia: Identifying Critical Knowledge [email protected] become blissfully unemployed for a Gaps,” for the Institute for Social and while.” Alexandra Pitts writes: “I Jane Freeman Environmental Transition Network. have been living in Fair Oaks, Calif., [email protected] This project has been supported by and for the last four years I have Sasimana Ketty Faichampa writes: Canada’s International Development handled communications and con- “I got a bachelor’s of science degree Research Centre and the United gressional affairs for the regional Kingdom’s Department for in nursing from the University of Visit the Yale director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Maryland in May 2008, and am now International Development. She has Service in Sacramento. My daughters starting my second career in the also co-authored a book, Ecotourism School of Forestry are now 10; my son is 6; and they are Development in India: Communities, Open Heart and Thoracic Surgery & Environmental all turning into California kids. My Stepdown Unit at St. Joseph Medical Capital and Conservation, which was husband, Keith, and I just celebrated Center in Towson, Md.” Dawn published by the Cambridge Studies website at our 16th anniversary (10 married). Gelderloos writes: “I own my own University Press in its Foundation The most interesting project I am company, Silver Wings Coaching and Books series. She received a Fulbright environment.yale.edu working on right now is a deal with Consulting, in Boulder, Colo. I am Fellowship under the Indo-American 26 local partners and a hydroelectric an executive/career coach and a Leadership Program and will spend company to restore the Klamath communications trainer. I partner three months in the United States River, so salmon can access 300 with clients across the country to beginning in early 2009. Peter more miles of river and the wildlife help them produce extraordinary Jipp writes: “I just completed 10 refuges can have adequate water results in their careers, businesses or years of service with the World Bank (among a lot of other important organizations and their lives. Through and am now based in Thailand, things).” Manuel Ramirez writes: the process of coaching, my clients working in Cambodia and Laos on “I am director for Southern Central deepen their learning, heighten their biodiversity conservation, community America for Conservation self-awareness, improve their perform- forestry and land titling. Our family International in Costa Rica, conduct- ance and enhance their quality of is doing well—Priya’s network of ing conservation work in both life. My coaching specialties include environmental economists marine and terrestrial ecosystems career planning and development, (www.sandeeonline.org) is growing. and regions in Nicaragua, Costa Rica home-to-work transitions, public Tulsi, 9, and Kabir, 6, are growing and Panama.” Tom Strumolo speaking and effective communica- too, and they really enjoyed our stay writes: “I spent the first part of my tions, life purpose and work/life at Timberlock this summer.” career shoulder-to-shoulder with Bill balance. I enjoy living in the moun- Christine Laporte writes: “My Burch and other pioneers of atmos- tains in Boulder with my husband, family and I are moving to Asheville, pheric defense through efficiency, Dave, and our three kids, Ben, 16, N.C. I will continue managing the conservation and alternative energy, Maddie, 15, and Nevin, 12.” South Atlantic Regional Research before I met most of my classmates. Stephen Kelleher is deputy director Project while I seek local opportuni- I’m now back in a lot of boiler rooms of the International Union for ties and work on my wildlife rehab and on a bunch of roofs, most enjoy- Conservation of Nature’s Forest license.” [email protected] ably in St. Thomas, where 40 cents Conservation Programme and joint Laura Simon continues her animal per kilowatt hour of electricity and coordinator of the Livelihoods and advocacy work for the Humane 300-plus days of sunshine are finally Landscapes Initiative. Laurie Society of the United States, focusing combining to make photovoltaics Reynolds Rardin loves living in on humane solutions for wildlife unbelievably cost-effective. I am in Concord, N.H., with her family, problems. Right now a major project touch with Anthony Irving, Peter where she has been freelancing for is helping towns learn how to avert Connorton and Mike Gregonis—the several local magazines, helping to beaver flooding problems. Her 5- Connecticut eco mafia.” Holly start a green committee at husband year-old, Jack, seems to be following Welles writes: “I created my own Jed’s church and generally promoting in her footsteps, having just rehabili- consulting firm called Summit the connection between spirituality tated his first baby skunks and turtle! Environmental Consulting. My pri- and environmental protection. Susannah Troner writes: “I am mary client is Climate Central—a [email protected] working with the Miami-Dade new and exciting organization in County’s new Office of Sustainability. Princeton created to provide infor- 1990 We are focusing on getting a handle mation to help the public and policy- Class Secretaries on the county’s fuel consumption makers make sound choices about Judy Olson Hicks baseline and establishing routine climate change.” reporting by departments, imple- Carolyn Anne Pilling menting the county’s new sustainable [email protected] building ordinance (requiring LEED Seema Bhatt is an independent silver for new buildings and LEED
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certified for major renovations) and Bio-Logical Capital has a solid be looking for a new job soon. Our trying to figure out how to pay for conservation mission and is well- two boys, Nathan, 13, and Simon, 8, class efficiency retrofits and solar installa- funded, both operationally and for are happy about being closer to my tions for existing buildings. Two project seed money.” family in Tacoma, Wash.” children of our friends in Italy spent [email protected] [email protected] part of the summer with us. Things Anne Southworth Marsh, Ph.D. turned out wonderfully, although we ’96, is starting her fourth year at The 1993 did feel obliged to feed them a good Heinz Center, where she has worked Class Secretaries dinner every day instead of sneaking to develop national environmental Dean Gibson in an occasional meal of cold cereal.” indicators for the State of the Nation’s [email protected] [email protected] Mark Van Ecosystem’s project. Anne and her Steeter writes: “Carla Wise and I husband, David, split their time Molly Goodyear have a lovely 9-year-old daughter between Bethesda, Md., and Gibson [email protected] and a yellow lab. We are living in Island, Md., where Anne chairs the Heather Merbs Corvallis, Ore. I have tenure at a nice island’s conservation committee. [email protected] little university, and Carla has trans- They have two children, Thomas, 10, Patrick Baker writes: “I am a lecturer formed herself into an environmental and Elizabeth, 8. Juan Pablo Ruiz in plant ecology at Monash University writer. Check out the September- Soto is living in Santa fe de Bogotá, in Melbourne, where I’ve set up October Utne Reader, ‘Green All the Colombia, and is a senior natural Australia’s only dedicated tree-ring Lawyers.’” resources specialist for the World lab. I continue my long-standing Bank. He is a manager for such proj- work in Thailand with the 1991 ects as Andean region conservation Smithsonian’s Center for Tropical Class Secretary and sustainable use of biodiversity in Forest Science and the Thai Richard Wallace Colombia; regional integrated silvi- Department of Natural Parks. I have [email protected] pastoral approaches to ecosystem research projects reconstructing management in Costa Rica, Colombia historical drought severity across Anne Harper writes: “I have been and Nicaragua; the Colombian the vice president of education for eastern Australia, investigating forest National Protected Areas Conservation dynamics and disturbance histories Heifer International in Little Rock, Trust Fund in Colombia; and Ark., for the past three years. Brady in Thailand and southeastern expanding partnerships for the Australia and estimating carbon is 27, has a delightful 1-year-old National Parks System in Venezuela. daughter named Eliza Jane and lives storage in Southeast Asian forests. I He also writes on a variety of envi- am starting a joint project with the in New York City with his family ronmental issues. most of the time. This summer Chinese Academy of Sciences and CTFS working on long-term carbon Andrea is the production manager 1992 for the Brevard Music Center in dynamics and forest history in the Class Secretary mountains of eastern China.” North Carolina; Brady is the sound engineer; and Eliza Jane is enjoying Katherine Kearse Farhadian www.ozdendro.org Cynthia the opportunity to play outside on [email protected] Barakatt is director of content devel- the lawn. Megan is 24, and she is a Kathy Fallon Lambert is the sustain- opment for the Encyclopedia of Earth. licensed massage therapist and energy ability manager at Dartmouth. She A collaborative effort between healer traveling with a team that uses founded and ran a consulting practice, Boston University and the National the trapeze as a challenge course. Ecologic: Analysis & Communications, Council for Science and the They have taught her to fly on the from 2003 to 2008. Lisa Lumbao Environment, the encyclopedia is a trapeze and coach new students, writes: “I am working on sanitation “wiki” site, but only scientists with too.” Chip Isenhart writes: “Jill issues in the Philippines and the Asia expertise in the specific topics are Isenhart and I live in Boulder with region. Josh is working for the Center allowed to be editors and reviewers our two kids, 7 and 9. We help run for Clean Air Policy on climate of the information that gets posted. ECOS Communications, a company change issues. Both Susan and Karl Part of Cynthia’s job is to recruit we originally started with Don are longtime government employees, scientists to contribute content and serve as editors. [email protected] Whittemore ’89 and Dawn Amato ’89 working for NOAA and the Forest just after we finished at Yale. This year Service, respectively.” Robin Susan Helms Daley adopted an I co-founded a new company called Maille writes: “My husband, Peter adorable boy (Jackson) from Bio-Logical Capital. The firm is Maille, and I moved to La Grande, Kazakhstan about three years ago, developing large-scale projects and Ore., in late August. Peter is teaching and six months later, she and her investment opportunities in a variety economics at Eastern Oregon husband, Sean, had a girl, Emeline. of emerging environmental markets, University and is finishing his Ph.D. Susan is working hard at home teaching her children about the including carbon, water, biodiversity, in natural resource economics at renewable energy, ecotourism and, West Virginia University. I have been environment. Andre Eid writes: “I where appropriate, environmentally working as a WVU county extension just finished working for three years sound real estate development. agent since last September and will with UNEP and UN-HABITAT for
46 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies the Norwegian Government in accounting, valuation and financial Jane Whitehill Nairobi. Now I’m back in Oslo, a reporting advisory practice. He leads [email protected] very different world, and working for the firm’s work in environment- Geoff Blate writes: “I moved with NORAD (USAID) and providing related financial reporting, auditing my wife, Sujata, and two children, Norwegian experience on sustainable and advice. He is also involved with Daniel, 3, and Sabina, almost 2, to exploration of oil and gas to coun- sustainability data assurance and Bangkok, Thailand, in mid-September tries worldwide.” Erik Esselstyn is reporting, as well as environmental, for two to five years. I will be coordi- living a great life with his wife in health and safety performance nating World Wildlife Fund’s climate Vermont, having retired a few years improvement. Kate Lance is work- change initiative in the Greater ago. Molly Goodyear writes: “Our ing on a Ph.D. in geographic infor- Mekong region (Thailand, Cambodia, Visit the Yale 15th reunion this year in New Haven mation management at Wageningen Laos and Vietnam). My two-year was a blast. It was great to be back at University Lois Morrison is the AAAS fellowship at EPA just ended. School of Forestry Sage Hall, enjoying TGIF and feeling executive director of a small founda- It was a great experience and I highly & Environmental like it was 1993 again. Cynthia tion in Chicago. She is married to recommend the fellowship program Barakatt, Susan Helms Daley, Erik Justin and has two young daughters. to anyone interested in gaining a Studies website at Esselstyn, Lisa Gustavson, Kathy John Norwood lives in Iowa, deeper appreciation for how the environment.yale.edu Roy Hooke, Paul Jahnige, Bill works for a wealthy individual with federal government ‘works’ and how Kenny, Sally Loomis, Lois Morrison, a vision for public greenspace and science is used (or not) in policy- Bill Mott, John Norwood, Tom has a son who loves baseball. Tom making. During my fellowship, I co- O’Shea, Susanne Schmidt ’92, Erika O’Shea is the assistant director of authored three chapters in a govern- Svendson, Wolfe Tone, Margaret wildlife for the Massachusetts ment report that reviewed adaptation Williams and I were all there to Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. options that resource managers could celebrate. I have been a development Erika Svendson had a baby in late use to cope with climate change. consultant for the Yellowstone to spring and brought him to reunion The report can be downloaded at Yukon Conservation Initiative for weekend 2008 in New Haven for a www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/ 2.5 years. My children, Peter, 10, and day. Ann Tartre works for Avoided sap4-4/final-report/.” Chris Ella, 7, love to ski, play soccer, ice Deforestation Partners. She organized Cosslett writes: “I’ve been working skate and skateboard, and my hus- a roundtable discussion and luncheon in various capacities (expert, con- band, Mike, is having a great time for policymakers and key stakeholders sultant, etc.) with the Global working in membership develop- with Nobel Laureates Al Gore and Environment Facility since graduat- ment at our newly opened YMCA.” Wangari Maathai in New York City ing. Most of my time these days is [email protected] Josh Foster in September. Ann enjoys the surfing spent formulating biodiversity writes: “I am manager for climate lifestyle of Southern California and conservation projects for UNDP- adaptation at the Center for Clean visits from F&ES alumni, most GEF. I’m working on projects in Air Policy in Washington, D.C. I will recently Cynthia Barakatt. China, Kazakhstan, Turkey and be working under the Urban Leaders [email protected] Wolfe Tone is Congo. This mostly involves support Adaptation Initiative, a Rockefeller married with twins and works for the to terrestrial and marine protected- Foundation-funded project partner- Trust for Public Land in Portland, area systems. I’m also starting to ing with nine cities and counties Maine. Margaret Williams testified work in the area of Reducing representing major metropolitan before Congress last spring in sup- Emissions from Deforestation and areas across the United States, helping port of listing the polar bear on the Degradation. I happen to be living in them prepare for and become more Endangered Species list. She lives in Tirana, Albania, at the moment.” resilient to the impacts of climate Alaska, but travels a lot to D.C. and [email protected] Tad change. For the last decade or so at Russia. Tim Wohlgenant writes: “I Gallion writes: “I’ve left my position NOAA, I had been working on the am the Colorado state director for The with the Senate Appropriations development of climate services, Trust for Public Land. My wife, Annie, Committee and we’ve moved to including some work on the Nobel and I follow our two girls, Zoe, 12, Brookline, Mass. Short-term I’ll be Prize-winning IPCC reports.” and Clio, 9, around on their various focusing on assisting with the Meg (Holliday) Kelly writes: “I after-school activities, shake our heads launching of my wife’s new career live in Weston, Mass., with my hus- in amazement at how quickly they’ve and keeping Emma, 11, and Claire, band, Jonathan, our three daughters, grown and try to squeeze in a few 4, on track.” Alexis Harte writes: 13, 11 and 7, an adolescent chocolate adventures during the year.” “I have been pursuing a music/song- lab and a 17-year-old cat that adopted 15th Reunion Year writing career full time. In May, I me when I was at F&ES. I am the 1994 signed a publishing deal with president of our town’s land trust Class Secretaries Lionsgate Entertainment to provide and serve on three other local open Jane Calvin songs for films and TV shows. On a space or organic farm boards, as well [email protected] recent trip to New York City, I con- as a new nature preserve in the nected with Scott Mathison and Adirondacks.” Tom Kalinosky Cynthia W. Henshaw [email protected] James Jiler ’95.” futuresealevel.org works in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Diana Wheeler writes: “We have
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two kids and live in Austin, Texas. www.shiawasesoken.com Liz with the Manomet Center for My husband, Don Redmond, is an Galli-Noble is the director of the Conservation Sciences based in class attorney with the State Environmental Center for Invasive Plant Management Brunswick, Maine. I’m working in Agency, and I’m a programmer at at Montana State University-Bozeman. their Natural Capital Initiative on Dell.” Nina Rooks-Cast writes: “This projects related to carbon sequestra- past summer I spent eight weeks in tion and other forest-based ecosystem 1995 Guatemala learning Spanish, since services. I live in the town of Hebron Class Secretaries 65 percent of my students in in western Maine with my wife, Marie Gunning Providence are Latino and I have an Lori.” Christian Kull has lived in [email protected] ESL physics class. Any alumni living Melbourne, Australia, for the past in the Providence area who would five years and works in Monash Ciara O’Connell like to help prepare students to com- University’s School of Geography [email protected] pete in the Science Olympiads, I’m and Environmental Science, where Dwight Barry is living in Port searching for volunteers.” Kristen he continues his research and teach- Angeles, Wash., with his wife, Tami, Steck works for Chevron. She was ing on the social aspects of resource and kids, Kate, 5, and David, 3. given the CARROT (Climate Action management. He has investigated Dwight is the coordinator of the Registry Recognizing Our Team) debates over fire use in Madagascar, Elwha Research Consortium, a group award, which is given by the reported in the book Isle of Fire of over 100 scientists studying the California registry staff to a select (University of Chicago Press, 2004), world’s largest dam removal and group of individuals who have gone and works on conflicts of interest fisheries restoration project. above and beyond the call of duty over introduced and invasive species. [email protected] to support the California registry’s For this project he has followed dif- Gregory Dicum writes: “Nina program. ferent species of Australian acacia (Luttinger) and I are having a baby trees in their travels around the in December.” Amy Dumas writes: 1996 Indian Ocean, to India, Madagascar “As of March 2008, I have been the Class Secretaries and South Africa. Lara (Nachiem) California program lead for the Bureau Kathryn Pipkin Swenson writes: “I am teaching of Land Management’s Wild Horse [email protected] environmental science at my son and Burro Program. I am based in Joseph’s private Christian school. Sacramento.” [email protected] Julie Rothrock Joseph is 12 years old. I’m very excit- Felton Jenkins writes: “I was [email protected] ed to be able to teach this subject in appointed to the Chatham County, Matthew Auer, Ph.D., was appointed a place where I can talk about the Ga., Resource Protection Commission. dean of the Hutton Honors College Christian basis for stewarding the It’s a new commission, with the goal at Indiana University in July 2008. Earth, and I’ll be glad too for the of protecting lands with high natural- He maintains his appointment as tuition break that we’ll receive as a resource and historical significance, professor of public and environmental result of my teaching there. We using acquisitions and easements affairs at the university’s School of recently enjoyed a visit from where possible. I am an investment Public and Environmental Affairs. Reinhold Hubner (F&ES German portfolio manager with Minis & Co., Karen Beard, Ph.D. ’01, and exchange student from 1994 to and my wife, Karen, and I are enjoy- Andrew Kulmatiski ’99 welcomed 1995), Joseph’s biological father. On ing downtown Savannah with our their first child, Andrew Paul the horizon for Joseph are trips to dogs, Lucy and Hooch. We’re fighting Kulmatiski, on June 19, 2008. Karen Germany, Austria, Italy and France high gas prices and greenhouse gases got tenure at Utah State University, with the Hubner family.” by walking to work.” James Jiler and Andrew is starting a tenure-track left New York City and his work on position at the University of Alaska, 1997 Rikers Island and is residing in Anchorage, in January 2009. Class Secretary Miami, Fla., where he’s raising three Topher Buck is a senior project Paul Calzada daughters—Nina, Niki and Nadia— manager for GreenBlue, a nonprofit [email protected] and developing environmental pro- in Charlottesville, Va., that specializes gramming for the Florida State in making “commercial activity Keegan Eisenstadt writes: “My wife, Prison System. His book, Doing Time ecologically and socially sound Kristy, and I live in Missoula, Mont., in the Garden (New Village Press, through the creative use of product with our precocious 2-year-old son, 2006), continues to “inspire garden- design.” His program, CleanGredients, Spencer, and an assortment of house ing programs for at-risk groups in helps formulators of industrial and mascots. Lots of biking, skiing, different settings around the country.” institutional cleaning products iden- kayaking, climbing and fun here in Tetsuro Mori writes: “I am a tify surfactants that have potential Big Sky country. Occasionally, I freelance consultant and auditor for environmental and human health bump into Dave Gaillard and Tonya environmental management sys- benefits, and provides an opportunity Opperman, who are both in Montana. tems, corporate social responsibility, for surfactant manufacturers to I’ve founded a new company that macrobiotics and LOHAS (lifestyle showcase such ingredients. John designs and implements climate- for health and sustainability).” Gunn writes: “I am a senior scientist change mitigation projects around the world. Initially it was mostly
48 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies reforestation in the tropics, but make into tea). It has been a labor of finished spending two years in the now we are involved in a number love, but very rewarding to see the island nation of the Republic of Palau of projects of “various types.” business grow. Evelyn, 8, and on the western edge of Micronesia. www.clearskyclimatesolutions.com Thomas, 5, are big helpers.” Jon While there, I was a senior EBM Alexander Evans, Ph.D. ’06, Kohl writes: “In Costa Rica, my wife (ecosystem-based management) writes: “I’m looking forward to the and I and several other Costa Ricans advisor to the Palau Conservation release of a report I’ve been working are making progress in establishing Society, and Wingfield worked as a on about the sustainable use of Querencia, an ecovillage. We’re in dermatologist, as well as coordinated woody biomass from forests. My two the process of creating a cooperative. the strategic planning process for the boys, 4 and 1, have gotten me outside Aside from these largely volunteer Bureau of Public Health. In mid- for some great hikes this summer.” activities, I am working on a number August, we moved to Vancouver, Visit the Yale www.biomass.forestguild.org Alex of fronts to promote a new kind of B.C., where I co-lead a new grant- School of Forestry Finkral, Ph.D. ’05, and Liz Kalies park planning that depends on adap- making entity that manages $120 ’04 welcomed their daughter, Pri tive management and learning. I also million to support conservation and & Environmental Myers Finkral, in May 2008. The new have been studying integral theory sustainable economic development Studies website at family is living in Flagstaff, Ariz., and evolutionary spirituality and activities in 27 First Nations on the where Alex is working toward tenure would be interested in hearing from coast of British Columbia. The Coast environment.yale.edu and Liz her Ph.D., both at Northern anyone else who wants to apply Opportunity Funds grew out of a Arizona University. Carlos these approaches to their work.” decades-long effort to resolve con- Guindon, D.F. ’97, writes: “This www.jonkohl.com Gus Le Breton flicts over forest management in an summer I worked for Maine Audubon writes: “I run a nonprofit trade initia- area often called the Great Bear and the Rachel Carson National tive promoting the commercialization Rainforest.” [email protected] Wildlife Refuge, conducting point of nontimber forest products from Mary Tyrell writes: “I’m the counts of marsh birds and assisting southern Africa. Last year I sailed to executive director of Yale’s Global with saltmarsh sharptailed sparrow Antarctica and climbed a small Institute of Sustainable Forestry. research. The Rachel Carson Reserve mountain there. This year I finally Besides running the institute, I’ve biologist is Kate O’Brien ’95. I am learned to snow ski in South Africa. been working on land use change also doing shorebird and waterfowl Next year I’m taking a six-month affecting our Northeastern forests monitoring within the Rachel Carson sabbatical with my family to drive and changing forestland ownership Reserve during the fall, along with the length of Africa.” gus@phyto- in the United States. It’s wonderful teaching an introductory biology tradeafrica.com Linwood to continue to interact with F&ES course at North Shore Community Pendleton, D.F.E.S. ’97, writes: “Last students and I enjoy life in New College in Danvers, Mass. I will also year I quit my tenured job at UCLA Haven, in between travels for work be working on the translation into to create a research center at the and pleasure and hikes in the moun- Spanish of a book written by Kay Ocean Foundation. I am living with tains.” www.yale.edu/gisf Deb Chornook and my dad, Walking With Jessica Morton ’01 and our two girls Weiner, Dan Shepherd ’99 and their Wolf: Reflections on a Life Spent in Sandwich, N.H., and on our boat two daughters, Haley and Lucy, Protecting the Costa Rican Wilderness. in Ventura, Calif., with shorter stays moved to Quito, Ecuador, about 18 Our oldest is a senior at Cornell and, near Cobscook Bay in Lubec and an months ago after more than eight this year, our youngest, Sergio, is off undisclosed surf spot in the years in Washington, D.C. to college at Carnegie Mellon.” Caribbean. I recently held a congres- Vicki Hornbostel writes: “I got sional briefing regarding a report I 1998 married in December 2004 and we published with Restore America’s Class Secretaries had our first baby, Michael John Estuaries, which led to several features Nadine Block Scotto, on March 14, 2008. He was 8 on Greenwire.com and an hourlong [email protected] pounds and 15 ounces at birth. I left radio show on the Outdoor Talk my last job working for a town wet- Network, America’s largest hunting Claire Corcoran lands agency to care for the baby, but and fishing radio program with 17 [email protected] would like to get back into ecological million listeners. This summer I spent Jeff Adams is vice president of ICF research eventually.” Kristen some quality southern California International. He recently relocated (Needham) Jordan writes: “Five years surf time with Marc Luesebrink to Baltimore with Kristen Adams ’99 ago, my husband, Bruce Jordan, and ’95.” www.coastalvalues.org and their three children, a 2-year-old I started a business called Sea Cider Shalini Ramanathan writes: “I am and 8-month-old twins. Luisa Farm & Ciderhouse. We bought a a project developer with RES Cámara Cabrales writes: “I am now farm on Vancouver Island and planted Americas, a leading developer of at Tabasco State in southern Mexico. an organic cider apple orchard, and wind-power plants with a portfolio I work in the UJAT, the local Tabasco this past year we began selling hard of generating assets using solar, State University, as a teacher and cider. Besides the orchard, we have biomass and other renewable-power researcher. I am in charge of three several acres of forest and have been technologies.” Scott Rehmus projects, one about secondary suc- harvesting some agroforestry crops writes: “My wife, Wingfield, my cession of tropical dry forest and two (mainly stinging nettle, which we three boys, ages 8, 5 and 3, and I regional projects about forestry assessment and planning for the
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National Commission of Forestry. I teer with K-2 students in Cambridge in New York. Nancy Fresco is also am in charge of four nurseries for elementary schools with their English working as a postdoctoral fellow at class the local state forestry commission, immersion program.” Kris Morico the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, where we produced three million is the global leader of the General doing climate change research. She is seedlings of native trees and introduce Electric water program headquartered also busy with her 2-year-old twins. species for forestry plantations and in Fairfield, Conn. She joined G.E. in Andre Heinz writes: “After three reforestation programs. On the 2006. She and her husband, Shaun, years of work, I am happy to weekends I am a beekeeper and I reside in Cheshire, Conn. announce the closing of the check my 100 hectares of forest- Sustainable Technology Fund, which land—fire line breaks are important 1999 10th Reunion Year I co-founded to invest primarily in to check very often, because this Class Secretaries expansion of Nordic clean technology. forest is surrounded by cattle ranch- Jocelyn Forbush This means that my time is spent ing. I have been taking care of this [email protected] heavily in Sweden, where we have an land for about 18 years. It is in office, as well as in other Nordic Jennifer Garrison Ross different stages of successions, some countries.” Rachel (Schwartz) [email protected] parts becoming a tropical forest, Louis writes: “I am assistant director so the bees and I are happy.” Seth Christiana Jones of the Center for Development Cook, Ph.D. ’04, writes: “I am [email protected] Economics at Williams College.” attending an intensive Chinese Kirsten Prettyman Adams writes: Eli Sagor is in his ninth year with language program at Tsinghua “Jeff Adams ’98 and I have moved to the University of Minnesota, St Paul. University in Beijing until June 2009. Baltimore to be closer to family and He is working on private forest The Inter-University Program has friends and the ocean. We have three stewardship, with a primary focus on waived most of my tuition.” little ones, Lily, 3, and Meg and peer-to-peer learning through wood- Tormod Dale writes: “I live in my Colin, 1. I am the head of the Upper land-owner networks. Eli and his hometown, Kristiansand, in Norway. School at the McDonogh School.” wife, Amy Kay Kerber, are expecting I work in the forestry sector, for the Timothy Allred writes: “My wife, their second child in January 2009. last six to seven years on projects in 9-month-old son Beckett, and I live Terry Terhaar, Ph.D. ’05, writes: former Yugoslavian countries, and in Rosendale, N.Y. For the past several “I’m a lecturer at the University of most often through a network com- years, I have been redeveloping an California, Santa Cruz, where I teach pany called Norwegian Forestry old 800-acre family resort into a in the environmental studies college Group.” Kevin Drury writes: “I LEED-certified resort and residential and the writing program. I also serve finished a postdoc at the National community focused on healthy living as executive director of the Center for Ecological Analysis and and the outdoors. The project is in International Society for the Study Synthesis at the University of the permit phase—we are drafting our of Religion, Nature and Culture.” California, Santa Barbara. During environmental impact statement—and Laura Williams writes: “After two that time I traveled to the Kruger the experience reminds me of almost productive years in Kamchatka National Park in South Africa to every class I took at F&ES, including setting up a regional office for the develop software for ecological mod- a few of my business classes. The World Wildlife Fund, I have eling of park wildlife populations. I name of the project is Hudson River returned to my home in the village am an assistant professor of biology Valley Resorts.” tallred@canopyde- of Chukhrai in western Russia this and ecology at Bethel College in velopment.com Lena Brook fall. My book, The Storks’ Nest, pub- South Bend, Ind. My oldest daughter, writes: “Jonah and I are living in San lished in March 2008, is about my Danielle, is a senior in high school.” Francisco in a duplex Victorian that life with my husband, Igor Shpilenok, [email protected] we own with Bhavna Shamasunder in this village. (See Bookshelf, Michelle Ernst writes: “My organi- and her husband, Patrick. Our page 28) Igor and I are beginning zation, Tri-State Transportation younger daughter, Talia, turned a to homeschool our 7-year-old son, Campaign, has become interested in year old on May 31, and 5-year-old Andrei, and our 4-year-old son, New Haven’s proposal to tear down Ava started kindergarten in late Makar. I will also start work on a Route 34. The project could serve as August. I am on the staff of the San new book about my experiences in a great regional model for highway Francisco Bay chapter of Physicians Kamchatka and continue consulting removals. We’ve pulled together an for Social Responsibility. My work is for WWF in Russia. I also hope to upcoming symposium on the plan.” focused on sustainable food in the spend more time promoting my www.tstc.org Brad Kahn and his health care sector, and we’ve seen husband’s nature photography wife, Erin, welcomed their son, Ezra, great progress in California in recent business. You can see his work on June 16, which also happens to years. This is part of a national at www.shpilenok.com. Copies of be Brad’s birthday. Natalie Keller campaign coordinated by Health The Storks’ Nest are available at writes: “I got a second master’s Care Without Harm, and one of my Labyrinth Books in New Haven.” degree at the Harvard School of colleagues in Boston is Michelle www.wild-russia.org Shiju Zhou Public Health in environmental Gottlieb ’95.” Don Chen is a pro- received a Ph.D. from Xiamen health. I have been a literacy volun- gram officer at the Ford Foundation University, China. He is the deputy
50 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies director of the Provincial Science and The couple met in Lima, where to teach silviculture and forest man- Technology Bureau of Fujian Province, Christie was a conservation planner agement at the undergraduate level. where he is responsible for agricul- for The Nature Conservancy in Peru. Townes has begun first grade and is tural and forestry-related scientific Their outdoor wedding was celebrated hitting pitched balls. Seija is full of development. He met Yajie Song ’89, with friends Anne Eschtruth, Elsa life and keeping us busy. Mona con- D.F.E.S. ’95, in Fuzhou, China. Hatanaka, Caroline Kuebler, Laura tinues to keep us all organized along (Dunleavy) Nelms and April Reese. with her own engineering work.” 2000 Christie is a biologist for EDAW, an Lisbet Kugler writes: “I am in D.C. Class Secretaries environmental design and planning enjoying what the city has to offer— consulting firm based in San especially running into F&ES friends Erika Schaub Visit the Yale [email protected] Francisco. Her projects range from at Jazz in the Sculpture Garden. I am focused surveys for special-status working at Environmental Resources School of Forestry Zikun Yu species to land management plans Management and about to start [email protected] and the occasional environmental- working at the International Finance & Environmental Huei-An Chu (Ann) and Chi-Hung compliance document. Ashley Corporation part time.” Pradeep Studies website at Liao (Charles) write: “Our son, (McAvey) Prout writes: “Our first Kurukulasuriya, Ph.D. ’06, is based Samuel Mu-En Liao, was born in child, Elle Uppercu McAvey, was born in New York City and works with environment.yale.edu Enloe Medical Center in Chico, on February 27, 2008. My husband, the United Nations Development Calif., on August 4, 2008.” Susan Ken, Elle, dog Jackson and I are living Programme. He works with a (Weuste) Ellis has been with in Shelburne, Vt. Before the birth of team within UNDP’s Bureau of Cameron-Cole for over four years Elle, I was the senior development Development Policy that assists now. She writes: “I am based in officer at The Rubenstein School of developing countries with accessing Pleasantville, N.Y., and am the man- Environment and Natural Resources global funds for, and designing pro- ager of our sustainability practice on at the University of Vermont, grams and projects on, adaptation to the East Coast. We’ve been very busy Montpelier.” Kristin (Sipes) Riha climate change. Pradeep and his working on GHG inventories, annual writes: “My husband, Mike, and I are wife, Sharmila, are expecting their sustainability reports and greening living in Concord, Calif., with our second baby in December 2008! the supply-chain projects. I adopted daughter, Lily. I work with trucking Jeff Luoma is a garden and forest a puppy that we named Nani, which and rail companies through a volun- manager at North Country School means beautiful in Hawaiian. She is a tary program at the EPA’s Region 9 near Lake Placid, N.Y. He and his golden retriever/lab/mystery mix, and Office, called the West Coast partner, Betsy, have a nice guest is the cutie of the neighborhood.” Collaborative.” room in the farmhouse, and it’s in Chris Kemos writes: “My wife, the heart of the Adirondacks. Tanya Stadnick, and I moved from 2001 www.nct.org Tracy (Scheffler) San Francisco to Kentfield in Marin Class Secretaries Melbihess writes: “I am a contractor County. We just had our second Leigh Cash from our home in Boise, Idaho, with child, Alexander Leo, this May. I am [email protected] the Fish and Wildlife Service on wolf a civil litigator at a firm in San conservation issues in the Southwest. Rafael, Calif., and putting my F&ES Adam Chambers My husband, Eric, and I are expecting skills to use dealing also with local [email protected] our second child at the end of land use and planning issues.” Jennifer Grimm September.” Michael Montag writes: Yuki Matsuoka writes: “Since 2005, [email protected] “My new firm, Beyond Compliance, I have lived on a southern island in Cordalie Benoit is the president of does environmental regulatory and Japan near Okinawa. Here, I grow the Connecticut Community sustainability consulting. The firm mango, potato, peanuts, papaya and Gardening Association. She writes: focuses on environmental-compliance cassava organically for sale. Also, I’m “There are about 80 programs in support (permitting, environmental working for a local authority to set Connecticut’s 169 towns, and six management, etc.). We also do up a farmers’ market on the island. It programs in New Haven alone, one auditing and environmental-manage- requires setting up a farmers’ organi- being the Greenspace Program at ment systems implementation and zation, skills sessions and market our own URI. In our spare time, my “sustainability implementation.” development. Integrating daily life husband, David Eliscu, and I are www.beyondcompliance.net Chris and work gives me full satisfaction. restoring my family’s antique house Nyce has moved to Nicaragua. He is Besides my current work, we are and grounds in Westerly, R.I.” working in the U.S. Embassy in going to purchase a piece of land on Dave Ellum, Ph.D. ’07, writes: Managua for two years—a year of the island.” Carlos Pineda lives in “I’m beginning my second year of consular work and a year on a port- San Francisco with his wife, Azita teaching at Warren Wilson College folio of environment-, science- and Ghafourpour. [email protected] in Asheville, N.C. The college’s technology-related issues in the Christie Pollet-Young married emphasis on academics, work and economic section. His wife, Rukmini, Frenchman Grégory Pollet-Young in service, combined with a 650-acre two daughters, Rasa and Priya, and California in the summer of 2007. school forest, makes for a great setting dog Kayso would love to host any
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visitors passing through Central writes: “The highlight of my summer well as network with other policy America. [email protected] was tramping around music festivals institutions and social justice grass- class Jen Osha writes: “I am facilitating doing an audience travel survey for roots groups in North America. Her a participatory mapping project some of the major U.K. festivals— mother was diagnosed with breast regarding the impacts of mountain- Roberto Frau saw me just before cancer in early 2008. Shalini and her top-removal coal mining in southern heading to Glastonbury.” Becca husband, Jim, went on a work/ West Virginia. I am also producing a Brown married Jason Dzubow on vacation trip to Vienna and Paris CD to raise money and awareness September 7, 2008, at a family this year. [email protected] about the social and environmental friend’s horse farm on the shore of John Homan writes: “After two injustice in the coalfields through the Chester River on the eastern years in private banking, I have the nonprofit I founded, Aurora shore of Maryland. Since graduating, moved to the Wealth Advisory Lights. A first CD was called Moving Becca has been working at EPA in Division of U.S. Trust, Bank of Mountains, and we raised $6,000 for Washington, D.C., and Jason is an America Private Wealth Management. local grass-roots groups. My son, immigration lawyer there. Attending This new role continues to include Elijah Storm, is 5 now and spends the wedding were Suzanne Sessine, managing relationships for high- most of his time in the woods.” Sarah Garman ’03, Meg Roessing net-worth clients while, at the same [email protected] Lisa ’03, Vic Edgerton ’03, Rachel Fertik, time, providing hands-on experience Schulman is a senior engineer in the Becca Jensen Bruhl ’03 and in portfolio management. I hope to area of environmental risk assessment Stephanie Perles. Gwen Busby complete my certification in financial at Merck & Co. Lisa and her husband, finished her Ph.D. at Oregon State planning in 2009, while continuing Dotan, reside in New Jersey with University and is an assistant professor to expand my knowledge of socially their two sons, Asher, 2, and baby in the Department of Forestry at responsible investments.” brother Jonah, born in July 2008. Virginia Tech. Matt Clark released Elizabeth Levy writes: “My hus- Mark Urban, Ph.D. ’06, was an album, Funny Little Fella, about band, Ryan, and I just purchased a awarded the 2008 Young Investigator his son, Rowan’s first year of life. condo in Somerville, outside of Prize from the American Society of Rowan’s mother, Abby, sings and Boston. He is working on his Ph.D. Naturalists. He teaches in the Ecology plays cello. Matt is an executive in green chemistry.” Cheryl and Evolutionary Biology Department director of Johnson Creek Watershed Margoluis writes: “I am living on at the University of Connecticut. Council in Portland, Oregon. the Pacific coast in Costa Rica. www.mattclarkmusic.com Roberto Richard and I have two kids now, 2002 Frau writes: “I am in Mexico City Sylvana and Kian. I am doing a ton Class Secretaries and working for Environmental of consulting still and started a little Catherine Bottrill Resources Management on sustainable school down here. We just finished [email protected] development projects that run the building a house, so we are hoping gamut from carbon footprint calcula- to have F&ES friends come visit!” Roberto J. Frau tions to social-impact assessments. [email protected] Chris [email protected] This year I’ve had mandatory happy Nelson and Nina Arnold welcomed Cesar Alcacer writes: “Life’s treating hours with many classmates, Finn Thomas in late March. Finn Paola Amador and me well here in including Catherine Bottrill, Maria loves gazing up at the trees during old Europe. I have accepted an offer DeRijk ’03, Erika Diamond, Rachel his daily walks around town, and his from the company I used to work for Fertik, Curtis Robinhold ’03, Liz first big visit to the woods appropri- six years ago in the United Kingdom Rowls and David Vexler.” ately took place at Great Mountain, to develop a business line in ecohy- Michael Funaro and Zhanna with Star Childs serving as guide. drology, my lifelong field of expertise. Beisembaeva-Funaro write: “Michael Chris has been busy implementing It’s good to know that the consultancy took a job with ESRI, so we moved the Regional Greenhouse Gas world seeks business opportunities to San Antonio in June. Our daughter, Initiative (RGGI) in Connecticut, in sustainable water management Danna, started sixth grade in August. and he collaborated with colleagues projects. This also meant leaving She plays French horn in her school from the other RGGI states to pre- Spain once again, although after 12 band and plays in tennis tournaments pare for the nation’s first auction of years wandering around I am getting every weekend. Kair turned 2 in CO2 allowances in late September. used to that. Regarding Paola, she is May. He speaks English, understands Rachel Novick, Ph.D. ’08, writes: enjoying her role as mother of Russian and is learning Spanish now.” “In May I finally graduated and, in Hector, 2.” Barb Bamberger [email protected] June, we moved to South Bend. I’m writes: “I work for the State of Shalini Gupta received an the education and outreach coordi- California Office of Climate Change Archibald Bush Foundation nator for Notre Dame’s new Office of for the Air Resources Board, in the Leadership Fellowship and is based in Sustainability. Tzvi is an assistant group designing its cap-and-trade Minneapolis. For the next year and a professor in Notre Dame’s theology program. My particular focus is on half, she will do an independent study department, and Aiden is attending environmental justice and how it of energy and climate change policies the Notre Dame daycare center.” will be integrated into California’s from a social-equity perspective. She’ll Nalini Rao finished her Ph.D. Climate Plan.” Catherine Bottrill travel to India and South Korea, as Rebecca Rundquist is living in
52 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Yarmouth, Maine, and working for Daniela Cusack writes: “I did Council, Los Angeles chapter. the Private Operating Foundation my last field season in Puerto Rico We have over 1,800 members.” and Family Foundation, both created for my dissertation, and then I [email protected] by Burt’s Bees Founder, Roxanne moved to Santa Cruz to live with Florence Miller writes: “I’m run- Quimby. Rebecca is raising her my boyfriend. I have a writing grant ning an innovation grants program for 3-year-old daughter, and she won’t for this academic year.” the National Audubon Society that is work full time until the little one is [email protected] intended to inspire the Audubon net- in school. Becky Tavani writes: Aspasia Dimizas and her husband work to reach new audiences while “I am a forestry officer at FAO in welcomed their baby girl, Myrto developing innovative techniques for Rome, traveling often to Zambia for tackling environmental problems. I Maurides, on April 4. She has Visit the Yale a land use assessment inventory.” already gone hiking with them in work from home in Vermont, but [email protected] Dylan Switzerland, where she greatly travel to Washington, D.C.” School of Forestry Taylor is the roads and wildlife pro- enjoyed “talking” to big trees during Fuyumi Naito writes: “I live in gram coordinator for the Southern their walks in the mountains. Geneva and work for the Japanese & Environmental Rockies Ecosystem Project. Corey Cherie LeBlanc Fisher writes: “I Mission to the United Nations. I Studies website at Wisneski writes: “My husband, got married at Malabar Farm State cover the Basel Convention, Brian, and I had a daughter, Amelia Park in Ohio in May. The park let Convention on International Trade environment.yale.edu Lynne, on June 30, 2008.” me and my husband, Charles, plant in Endangered Species and some a tree in honor of our wedding. I do other multinational environmental 2003 urban social science research in agreements. My 1-year-old son Class Secretaries Chicago for the research division of enjoys his life here, and my husband, Brian Goldberg the U.S. Forest Service.” Sarah who works in Brussels, comes to [email protected] Garman writes: “I work at the EPA Geneva every weekend.” Kabir in the Office of Policy, Economics Peay and Alison Forrestel were Scott Threadgill and Innovation. The bulk of my work married in Yosemite in October 2007. [email protected] is dedicated to addressing climate Kabir’s next big challenge is writing Rebecca Ashley Asare writes: “In change and energy security. In addi- his dissertation and hopefully gradu- November I gave birth to a baby girl, tion, I have worked on developing ating by the end of this year. After Claire Adjoa Asabea Asare. Richard regulations related to water and that he expects to be showered in and I are living in Accra, Ghana. He solid-waste permitting. I relocated to money and offered lots of jobs. is working for the International New York City this August.” Brian Bryan Petit writes: “I am in the Institute of Tropical Agriculture on Goldberg writes: “I’m building a early stages of forming a walking their Sustainable Tree Crops Program, public park along the Coney Island tour of interesting trees in the down- and I am slugging away at finishing boardwalk, as well as leading an town area of D.C., a project of our my dissertation.” Ryan Bennett environmental planning study of local Society of American Foresters writes: “I’m living in San Francisco Libya’s desert coast.” Karen chapter.” Soni Pradhanang writes: and involved in private equity for Hardigg and her husband, Nick, “I am writing a couple of manuscripts renewable-energy developments. I welcomed a healthy baby boy, Ashe, on my Ph.D. research. I am hoping am engaged to my sweetheart, on July 30. She works at The to finish writing my dissertation by Jessica.” Becca Jensen Bruhl Wilderness Society on national forest the end of this year.” Holly Sage writes: “I live in Houston with Aaron policy in Anchorage. Orawan writes: “We have a baby girl. Olivia and our 2-year-old son, Elliot. I work Intarakomalyasut writes: “I am the Sarah Green was born in March part time as a staff scientist at the mother of two sons, Obi-One and 2008. We live in Maryland and I am Mickey Leland National Urban Air Anda.” Krithi Karanth and her working for the EPA’s water quality Toxics Research Center, and I’m family moved to D.C. She will defend standards program.” Abdalla Shah working on my doctorate at the her Ph.D. from Duke in November writes: “I am a national technical University of Texas, Houston, School and will start a postdoc fellowship at advisor for the Kilombero Valley of Public Health in the environmental Columbia University. Cherie Lim Ramsar Project in Tanzania. The and occupational health division.” is an environmental manager with main objective of the project is to Chuck Brunton and Laura Pyle JMK Environmental Solutions and develop an integrated management were married in New Jersey on was designated a California Registered plan for the Kilombero Wetlands. I September 22, 2007. They celebrated Environmental Assessor as of July traveled to Cuiaba, Brazil, to attend the evening with Andrew Clack; 2008. Brendan McEneaney writes: the International Wetlands Ellen Denny ’97; Anne Eschtruth “I am the green-building program Conference.” Jay Shepherd is an ’00; Mary Ford ’01; Heather advisor for the City of Santa Monica. acquisition and development manager (Peckham) Griscom ’00, Ph.D. ’04; I oversee green-construction require- for contaminated properties nation- Bronson Griscom, Ph.D. ’03; Pete ments in the city, as well as incentive wide and in Guam for Weston Hill ’01; Illisa Kelman ’99; Caroline programs, education and outreach. I Solutions in D.C. Jay has almost com- Kuebler ’00; Roy Schiff, Ph.D. ’05; have been here for a little over a year pleted a second master’s from Johns Trey Schillie; Carla Short; Kirsten and I enjoy it very much. I’m also on Hopkins in real estate development Spainhower; and Sarah Vogel. the board of the U.S. Green Building and seeks to continue his effort to
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revive urban communities blighted since I am also a nature photographer, in New Zealand and Hawaii.” by decades of environmental harm. I take most of the pictures during the Shona Quinn is the sustainability class www.westonsolutions.com inventories for the reports and other leader for the clothing company Laura Tam and Darryl welcomed articles. I also help edit the post- Eileen Fisher. Christopher Riely their son, Liam Asher Knudsen, in inventory reports and write articles writes: “I have alighted in Providence, February 2008. Laura has been about our experiences and outcomes R.I., and am a watershed forest man- trying to persuade the City of San in the field for local media.” Tasha ager for Providence Water, the public Francisco not to build a new natural Eichenseher is the science editor for utility providing drinking water to gas power plant that was permitted the National Geographic website. Rhode Islanders.” Nalin Sahni in their community. Margarita Fernandez is living in writes: “I’m in law school at the Oaxaca, Mexico, working with an University of Toronto but on 2004 5th Reunion Year organic certifying agency. On June 7, exchange in Amsterdam until the end Class Secretaries 2008, she and Benjamin Hodgdon ’03 of 2008.” Dani Simons is living Jennifer Vogel Bass welcomed their first baby, Carmen and working in New York City. This [email protected] Delia. Alphonse (Buddy) Fletcher summer she helped the city’s Jr. married Ellen Pao last year and Department of Transportation create Keith Bisson they had a daughter, Matilda Pao Summer Streets, a seven-mile car-free [email protected] Fletcher, whom they call Mei. route through the heart of Manhattan Daniela Vizcaino Betony Jones is director of program on three consecutive Saturday morn- [email protected] development at the Sierra Business ings to encourage more people to Laura Wooley Council in Truckee, Calif., trying to re-imagine the way we use streets as [email protected] pioneer the new green economy in public spaces and to promote biking, the Sierra Nevada. Betony is working walking and other sustainable and Jessie Barnes writes: “David Kneas with land trusts to finalize forest healthy modes of transportation. ’05 and I got engaged, and I am back conservation projects for carbon [email protected] Abigail in New Haven to write my Ph.D. sequestration in order to secure Weinberg writes: “I’ve been develop- research on irrigation in Egypt.” funding for long-term management ing a research program focused on Jennifer Vogel Bass and her hus- and restoration of private forests in understanding the impacts of new band, Gordon, welcomed Henry the region. She writes: “I’m also get- investment vehicles on forestland William Bass in June 2008 at their ting ready to launch an ambitious conservation for the Open Space home in Queens. Marco Buttazzoni energy efficiency program that will Institute. Our next project is examin- and Valerie Craig welcomed their tie rural economic development ing the current ownership of the 67 son, Giulio, in April 2008. Suzette opportunities to energy conservation. million acres of old industry lands in Carty writes: “I live in Louisville and Other than that, I tried to get out the United States—who owns them work for Brown-Forman Corporation, backpacking a lot this summer. I and what’s to come as Timberland leading our environmental steward- went on a five-day excursion to the Investment Management Organization ship initiatives.” Jonathan Cook astoundingly beautiful Evolution investors move oversees. I married writes: “I spent the past year living Basin with my boyfriend and Alison my love of 12 years last September, in Laos and working with World Forrestel ’03, Kabir Peay ’03, Ilmi and we’re living in Brooklyn. We Wildlife Fund’s Greater Mekong Granoff, Garret Miller and Alice have just taken up sailing, and get- Program on agriculture. I also found Bond ’05.” Amanda (Farris) ting out on the Hudson is a great time to climb Mount Kinabalu in Mahaffey writes: “I got hitched on escape from the city.” Kevin Woods Malaysia, run the Angkor Wat 10K August 2 in Brunswick, Maine, to writes: “I will be starting my Ph.D. at and attend Hahn-Ning Chou’s epic Kevin Mahaffey. I am active at Stantec, the University of California, Berkeley, wedding in Manila. I’m now at my formerly Woodlot Alternatives, and in environmental science, policy and old job with WWF in Washington.” am also pursuing a degree in music.” management.” Alvaro del Campo writes: “I am Rose Mannik writes: “I have been the international field programs working in Melbourne, Australia, for manager of ecology, culture and 2005 the last two years. I worked first in conservation, coordinating all rapid Class Secretaries the spatial, and now the water inventories (social and biological) David Cherney resources, section of the engineering and some of our tropical ecology [email protected] consulting firm Sinclair Knight courses in Chicago and in the field. Merz.” Susan Tambi Matambo Dora Cudjoe We conduct rapid biological and writes: “We have returned to the [email protected] social inventories to promote effective United States after a three-year stint Virginia Lacy conservation action in threatened in Southeast Asia and have settled in [email protected] regions of high-biological diversity Bethesda.” Megan Mattox writes: and uniqueness. We are working in Benjamin Urquhart “I am based in the Bay of Islands the tropical rainforests of Peru, [email protected] with my husband, Rowan, and I am Bolivia and Ecuador. I lead the Maura (Leahy) Adams lives in working for New Forests Asset advance teams in the country, and Concord, N.H., and is manager Management, overseeing operations
54 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies of environmental stewardship for in a variety of countries—geothermal Seattle, lobbying local and state St. Paul’s School, a private boarding in Indonesia, wind in Chile and government for sustainable land use school. [email protected] Pakistan and hydro in India for policy changes. I’m in my third year Lauren Baker enjoyed some time International Finance. Sarah and I on the board of directors for High off in Peru and California and are living in D.C. and expecting our Country News, a magazine about returned to F&ES in August to do first child in August.” Carishma social, cultural and environmental her Ph.D. with Michael Dove and Gokhale-Welch and Aaron Welch issues in the western United States. I Robert Bailis. Cherelle Blazer- have gone to India. Aaron has been had the pleasure of attending Sam Higgins writes: “I am a community awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Krasnow’s wedding in Vermont this activist, green builder and business research conservation in association summer, where I also got to see Ali owner. I have a little boy and girl.” with the Indian Institute of Macalady ’06 and her husband, Visit the Yale Alvaro Redondo Brenes is a Technology in Mumbai. Carishma Derek, and Kelly Coleman and her School of Forestry fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at F&ES. will integrate sustainable practices fiancé, Amir. Jim Cronan ’06 and I He is working on his dissertation in into the booming economy. This are housemates living in north & Environmental Costa Rica, studying the effects of comes at the close of Aaron’s Colorado Seattle.” Megan Sutton writes: Studies website at land use, political and socio-economic Conservation Trust Fellowship with “This summer Andy Tait and I got factors on the conservation of two land trusts and Carishma’s hitched in a lovely high meadow out environment.yale.edu wildlife in the Path of Tapir continuing direction of a successful in the countryside of the southern Biological Corridor, Costa Rica’s watershed management effort in the Appalachian Mountains. Mary Alice Central and South Pacific Coast. historic mining town of Creede. car- and Rob Lamb played beautiful Patrick Burtis writes: “I’ve been in [email protected] music throughout our ceremony.” the United Kingdom since July 2006, Emily Levin writes: “I moved to Carlisle Tuggey writes: “I am an investing in clean energy and envi- Burlington, Vt., last September and environmental attorney at Preti ronmental technologies startups on am the planning manager for resi- Flaherty law firm in Portland, Maine. behalf of Amadeus Capital Partners, dential services at the Vermont I sail, ski, hike, enjoy Portland and a leading European venture capital Energy Investment Corporation. I do have been getting involved with The firm. I get to travel quite a lot in strategic planning and management Nature Conservancy, Sail Maine, Europe for work and pleasure. I for energy efficiency services in new United Way, the American Bar married Jennifer Thomas in London and existing homes at Efficiency Association and some other nonprof- last July after four years of dating. Vermont, the state’s energy efficiency its in my free time.” Ben Urquhart We live in Notting Hill with our dog, utility.” Michelle Lichtenfels is a research associate at the Harvard Mimi. We hung out with Kyle Jones writes: “I’m a program manager at University Center for the ’06 a lot when she was living in Portland Energy Conservation, Environment, where he is working London, but sadly (for us) she has where I’m implementing large-scale on international climate and energy gone back to New York. We have commercial energy efficiency programs policy. There might be some forestry seen Andre Heinz ’99, who’s living in in California. Matt and I have had a and biomass energy project develop- Stockholm, and Caley Johnson ’06 busy year racing our bikes around ment on the side. Ethan Winter when I was in Colorado on vacation. Oregon and Washington—both reports that Savannah Hollins Winter Jennifer and I also had dinner with cyclocross and road racing. I’m getting was born in August 2008. Ethan is Arnulf Grubler in Vienna in ready to upgrade to Category 3. At the New York conservation manager February—on his birthday, no less. the end of the summer, we went to for the Land Trust Alliance and is A good time as always.” Vermont to see Kelly Coleman and responsible for a $1.5 million annual [email protected] her fiancé, Amir, then were off to capacity-building grants program Sharifa (Gulamhussein) Crandall Amsterdam and Egypt for a couple and the state policy program. is living in Boston and studying urban of weeks.” Sarah Matheson traveled landscape design and restoration to Peru, where she saw Cesar Moran. 2006 ecology through the Arnold She is starting a sustainability practice Class Secretaries Arboretum at Harvard. She’s finding for an Australian consulting firm in Flora Chi time to botanize, swim and play Washington, D.C. Azalea Mitch [email protected] kickball on the weekends. Dora writes: “I am a project engineer with Cudjoe had a boy, Jonathan Joel the Greater New Haven Water Reilly Renshaw Dibner (Jojo) Fiifi Forson, in May 2008. Pollution Control Authority. I bike to [email protected] Trisha Eyler is living in Ashburn, work on most days and have been Krista A. Mostoller Va., just west of Washington, D.C. happy to reduce my carbon footprint. [email protected] She recently left her position as an We installed a solar hot water heater Jill Savery enforcement specialist with the system last year. Bill and I canoed in [email protected] Virginia Department of Environmental Canada, and we work with Engineers Susan Ely Quality and began working for URS Without Borders on a water project [email protected] as a consultant in its air quality in Cameroon.” Daniel Stonington group. James Fergusson writes: “I writes: “I’m a program manager for Jessica Albietz is doing watershed am financing a range of renewables the Cascade Land Conservancy in restoration in the northern Sierras
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for the nonprofit Feather River there. I helped conduct a climate Eastern Africa to address the trade. A Coordinated Resource Management change impacts assessment workshop Fulbright Senior Specialist grant will
class Group. Imelda Bacudo is a conser- for biodiversity and natural resources- enable her to continue work with the vation finance advisor at the Uganda based livelihoods in Madagascar. fellows in building an Eastern Africa Wildlife Authority, the government The results of this vulnerability network to complement a decade of agency in charge of managing all assessment are contributing to the effort on bushmeat in Central Africa. protected areas in Uganda. She is formulation of a comprehensive Heather has two children, Casey establishing self-financing tools such adaptation strategy for incorporating Savanna, 7, and Ryan Forest, 5, who as carbon credits, water payments, climate impacts into conservation.” recently accompanied their parents ecotourism and biodiversity offsets Elizabeth Deliso writes: “For the to Tanzania for a month, where within Ugandan national parks and last two years I’ve been living in the mom and dad were working on wildlife reserves. Jeni (Krencicki) cloud forest of Monteverde, Costa African wildlife conservation efforts. Barcelos writes: “I am a Gates Public Rica. In 2007 I wrote a grant with www.bushmeat.org Debora Fillis Interest Law Scholar at the University Alan Pounds and conducted a project writes: “I am an environmental of Washington, where I am research- investigating the potential effects of planner for communities in the ing how human rights law can be climate change on the hummingbirds New York City metro area and have used to address the humanitarian of Monteverde. The idea is to help moved back to my hometown in crises caused by climate change.” La Reserva Biologica Bosque Nubuso Eastchester, N.Y. In addition to Mohamad Chakaki is an environ- de Monteverde develop and imple- environmental planning, I am going mental consultant with The Baraka ment a research and biological to marry Steve Ryba next spring.” Group. His area of expertise—social monitoring program. I also spend Erin Flanagan writes: “I work for ecology problem-solving—is at the time with my 8-month-old son and a big law firm, Thompson Hine, intersection of environmental manage- partner, Julio, and I welcomed Julian where I practice as a trial lawyer in ment and community development. Santiago Medina Deliso into the the firm’s business litigation group. He consults on social ecology projects world in December 2007.” I am involved in raising northeast involving place-based education, sus- [email protected] Reilly Ohio’s awareness to the region’s tainable design, urban planning and Dibner writes: “I’ve just moved back clean-water and clean-air issues and community-based natural resource to Galway to begin a Ph.D. at the am looking forward to becoming management in the United States National University of Ireland, work- involved in the civic task force that and Middle East. Flora Chi writes: ing on an ecology, environmental- is trying to bring the largest wind “Angela Quiros ’05 and her family engineering and forestry project. I’ve farm to the United States, to be visited me in Hong Kong this sum- been racing triathlons, playing music located in the waters of Lake Erie.” mer. We caught up at a lofty bar (more mandolin, less bass) and Jenny Frankel-Reed writes: “I downtown overseeing the beautiful learning how to make fancy hats out am a technical advisor for a project night scene of Victoria Harbor. I also of discarded fabric. I visited with titled ‘Adaptation to Climate met O.M. Cordes, a close friend of F&ESers at Kim Wilkinson’s wedding Change in Rural Areas’ in India Nell Larson, in a Harvard alumni in June and look forward to crashing with GTZ (German Technical gathering at Happy Valley Horse on Jill Savery’s couch near London Cooperation). I was in Eschborn, Racing Track. Did I bet on horses? sometime this year. This past Germany, until September, and now Yes, I did, and my beginner’s luck won summer I monitored gull nests in am going to live in New Delhi me $500 from a $50 bet.” Joel San Francisco under dive-bombing through mid-2011. It has been a Creswell writes: “I’m in the research pressure by the (large) adults and privilege to work with and learn phase of a Ph.D. in environmental conducted endangered butterfly from Pradeep Kurukulasuriya ’01, chemistry at the University of counts on San Bruno Mountain.” Ph.D. ’06, and Luis Gomez- Wisconsin, studying the production Konstantine Drakonakis writes: “I Echeverri ’91 while at the UNDP.” of methyl mercury in wetlands. I opened a new office in New Haven [email protected] Ross received an EPA STAR fellowship last for LaunchCapital, a new venture Geredien writes: “Julie and I are summer to support my research.” capital fund. We look to invest in a doing very well after a belated Radhika Dave writes: “I have been broad and diverse range of startups.” honeymoon to Costa Rica, where we working on climate change adapta- Heather Eves, D.F.E.S. ’06, has saw 189 species of birds. I manage tion within the Center for Applied been director of the Bushmeat Crisis the state’s rare-, threatened- and Biodiversity Science at Conservation Task Force based in Washington, endangered-species information at the International for the last year and a D.C., since 2000. She has continued Maryland Natural Heritage Program.” half. In the process, I have been to focus on the bushmeat issue www.goodmigrationsphoto.com lucky enough to travel back to across Africa, most recently in Gonzalo Griebenow is working at Madagascar (where I conducted Eastern Africa, and is working with the World Bank Environment research for my master’s project) on the MENTOR fellowship program to Department with the policy and several occasions and reconnect with provide training and support for economics team. He writes: “My friends I made during my field work mid-career wildlife professionals in work is about improving the integra-
56 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies tion of climate-change policies in sustainable forest practices, so I’m (water withdrawals, upstream barriers, developing countries. I am also lucky to work on projects all over stormwater).” Amanda Cowan carrying out research work in the the place.” Jill Savery writes: “I writes: “I am in my second year in a Amazon, studying the potential moved to London and am the 2012 doctoral program at Oxford impacts of climate change in the project manager for BioRegional. University. I’m in the marketing tropical Andes.” Maria Ivanova, BioRegional and WWF co-authored department at Oxford’s business Ph.D., is an assistant professor of the London 2012 One Planet school, and my current research is government and environmental policy Olympics sustainability strategy, and on U.S. environmental activism at the College of William and Mary I am providing assistance to the around the issue of climate change.” in Virginia. She is spending her organizers in meeting their targets.” Beth Jamie Feingold writes: “I sabbatical year in Washington, D.C., as Dhyana Quintanar Solares writes: completed the first year of my Ph.D. Visit the Yale a visiting scholar at the Environmental “I am collaborating with the Ministry at Johns Hopkins School of Public School of Forestry Law Institute. Kyle Jones has of Environment of Mexico City Health in the Department of moved back to New York City after (Secretaría de Medio Ambiente del Environmental Health Sciences. I’m & Environmental two years in London. Taek Joo Distrito Federal), where I coordinate about to start research on the envi- Studies website at writes: “I live in Korea and got a new the Bikeway Master Plan of Mexico ronmental health effects of large- job at Korea Green Foundation, an City.” [email protected] scale factory farms. I get to catch up environment.yale.edu environmental NGO. I work on the Dahvi Wilson writes: “I am the with Bridgid Curry, Caroline international cooperation team.” director of sustainability at a new Simmonds ’06, Fuphan Chou ’06 Jen Karanian writes: “I’m living in green neighborhood development and Steve Rhee ’00, among others. I Sudan and am a contractor for called Mountainside Village, the just built a road bike and am excited USAID, writing environmental evalu- executive director of a small non- to ride it.” Dawn Lippert writes: ations for all its upcoming projects. profit called Mountainside Institute, “I have been developing a strategy I’m hoping to get a gig with the the board chair of Teton Valley for Hawaii to reach 70 percent clean Wildlife Conservation Society in the Community Recycling and a co- energy by 2030—including electricity, fall, doing some work related to that founder of a new collaboration of efficiency and transportation—for enormous wildlife migration route local green organizations and busi- Booz Allen’s renewable-energy team. they discovered in Southern Sudan.” nesses that we’re calling the Teton It’s related to my experience at F&ES Alder Keleman writes: “I’ve Valley Green Forum. Jeni (Krencicki) working with Marian Chertow, moved to Rome to be based at the Barcelos and I continue our work Ph.D. ’00, and four other students FAO for a year. Here I’m working on advising and consulting as fellows of on a sustainable energy plan for the the same old topics—crop diversity, the Progressive Ideas Network, a Big Island.” Charlie Liu writes: markets and agricultural policy—but strategic collaboration of several “I’m a Ph.D. student in the Biology with a broader geographical scope.” national progressive political think Department at University of [email protected] Chris tanks, and we hope to call another California, Berkeley, working in Jay Meaney writes: “I was hired by the meeting of these groups after the Keasling’s lab on biofuels (not related NMFS office of the Habitat elections in November.” Christina to corn or ethanol).” Susan Conservation Habitat Protection Zarrella is assistant to the director Marriott is an associate of Philips Division. I’m now a full-time federal of, as well as multistate conservation Lytle in Buffalo. Her practice concen- employee.” Shuichi Ozawa writes: grant program coordinator for, the trates on environment and energy, “I am an environmental consultant Association of Fish & Wildlife telecommunications and land use, in Tokyo. I met Gala Davaa ’07 in Agencies in D.C. and zoning law, along with climate- Tokyo when he visited here for vaca- change policy. Colleen Morgan is tion.” Tiffany McCormick Potter 2007 starting a program called Bayou writes: “I am head of origination for Class Secretary Rebirth Wetlands Restoration and Equator Environmental, a private Rosi Kerr Education in New Orleans. She has asset management firm with head- [email protected] spent the past year networking, pro- quarters in New York City and the moting and testing her idea while second-largest natural gas brokerage Heather Arrowood writes: “I’m a working at the Audubon Nature in North America. This position consultant for Vintage Africa, based Institute as the volunteer coordinator allows me the opportunity to follow in the Kigio Wildlife Conservancy in of its nature center in New Orleans my heart and potentially help change Kenya, but I may move to their East, an 86-acre property that was Tanzania office in a few months.” the way we value, invest and protect destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. She green spaces and to tap back into my Joanna Carey writes: “I’m moni- manages a volunteer restoration expertise in forestry and conserva- toring stream flow at over 60 sites project there to remove the invasive tion.” [email protected] statewide for the Massachusetts species, Chinese tallow, and replant Sarah Price writes: “I’m working Riverways Program, a division of the native bottomland hardwood species. with Tropical Forest Trust and am Department of Fish and Game. I www.bayourebirth.org Hannah based in Geneva. TFT works examine how the streams are Murray writes: “I’m working at Forest throughout the tropics to improve responding hydrologically to stressors Trends and the Katoomba Group in
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classnotes YALE son, Diptanshu.” girl, Avani, whojoins our2-year-old in Nepal.InMay2008wehadababy governance andforest management Penn State.Iwillbeworkingon of naturalresource managementat sociology andthehumandimensions writes: “IamaPh.D.studentinrural vation easementacquisitions.” with allaspectsoflandandconser- assisting twoseniorstaff members Trust inSantaRosa,Calif.Iam assistant withtheSonomaLand Wurglitz www.4cornersrecycles.org www.stephanieogburn.com; farms insouthwesternColorado.” to support communityfoodand working onstarting anewnonprofit Gristmill. Inmyspare time,I’m those experiencesatGrist.org’s blog, organic farmandblogging about I’m alsoworkingpart timeonan County,country—Montezuma Colo. boost recycling inmypart ofthe Recycling Initiative.It’s aneffort to cling program, theFourCorners opment coordinator foraruralrecy- writes: “I’mtheoutreach anddevel- England.” across northern NewYork andNew Boston, protecting wildernessland Northeast Wilderness Trust in “I’m theexecutivedirector ofthe and plants.”www.ca.audubon.org improving habitatforwetlandbirds cess ofourrestoration actionsin toring protocol tomeasure thesuc- I’m workingonsettingupamoni- Pablo BayNationalWildlife Refuge. the wetlandsthatmakeupSan restoration onTubbs Island,part of Wildlife toinitiatetidal Service nering withtheU.S.Fishand Audubon California,whichispart- coordinatorconservation for Carlos University.” dissertation asastudentatReyJuan Defense FundinMadridandonmy working fortheEnvironmental America.” tives forforest inLatin conservation Washington, D.C.,onmarketincen- Pedro Piris-Cabezas Mike Perlmutter The SchoolofForestry &Environmental Studies writes: “Iamaprogram Jim Nordgren Stephanie Ogburn Tenley Elizabeth is theBayArea Krishna Roka writes: “Iam writes: world.” her tosomeofthebestpizzain New Haven,andIhopetointroduce economics. Zahraisjoiningmein study atF&ESinenvironmental back toNewHavenstart Ph.D. East withherandnowplantocome married Zahra,traveledtotheFar writes: “IwentbacktoPakistan, Business SchoolinCostaRica.” Sustainable MarketsatINCAE and the Centerfor Conservancy able coffee project withThe Nature writes: “Iamworkingonasustain- and ranchingfor24-monthprograms. leaders withmentorsinconservation Program willmatcheageryoung northern NewMexico.TheCARLY communities andecosystemsin vation nonprofit thatbuildsresilient for TheQuiviraCoalition,aconser- and RanchingLeadershipYouth) program calledCARLY (Conservation leadershipdevelopment servation program coordinator foranewcon- moved toSantaFe,N.M.,bethe www.aldeafeliz.org sored businessplancompetition. in therunningofaMcKinsey-spon- Dominican bankandwasinvolved and portfolio revamping fora in Brazil,didorganizational design management forasanitationcompany oped agrowth strategyforwaste American colleagues.Shealsodevel- next year, coordinating withLatin reduce emissionsby10percent by abatement planfortheoffice to where shedevelopedthecarbon ant atMcKinsey&Co.inBogota, Nations inNewYork. the PakistanimissionatUnited watershed. Sheisalsointerningwith tation patternsoftheRioBravo pendent studyanalyzingtheprecipi- Pakistan, andsheisdoinganinde- and adaptationtowatershortages in her master’s thesisonfarmerbehavior Mariya Absar [email protected] Kim Yaun-Farrell [email protected] Kelsey Kidd [email protected] Angelica Afanador Class Secretaries 2008 Anamaria Aristizabal Avery Anderson is atF&EScompleting Georgia Basso Ali Akram is aconsult- has ( topreserveSociety trying bonobos with theWildlife Conservation director inSalongaNationalPark Liengola humans.” They are theclosestrelative to of thegreat apestobediscovered. Bonobos are pygmychimps,thelast job. before starting tolookforhernext pickling andoutdoorexploring some timetorelax anddosome University ofDelaware. 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North andSouthAmericaunderthe be workingoncertifying forests of in theBayArea ofCalifornia.Iwill with ScientificCertification Systems and Iamnowacertification forester Mercy CorpsinBogotá,Colombia, finished aforestry internshipwiththe loving thedesert.” Solutions inTempe, Ariz.,and environmental scientistforWeston Pan paniscus Moore Foundation.” and I’mworkingremotely forthe and Iare gettingsettledinWinnetka, projects indevelopingcountries.” develop carbonemissions-reduction Mechanism regulations. Ialsohelp markets andCleanDevelopment company up-to-dateoncarbon analyst—mainlykeepingthe tory Iamaregula-job atAgCert Services. Melbourne, Fla.,andstarted myfirst . Ronisdirector oftheMarine Genny Biggs Xinwei Zhang Kelsey Kidd writes: “Iamaproject Kyle Meister ) andtheirhabitat. and writes: “Myfamily writes: “Imovedto Lucas Knowles writes: “I’man Jennifer Lewis Sara Bushey Innocent writes: “I obituaries
Ralph Arnold ’41 (1915-2008) died at Charles O’Connor Baird Jr. ’51 In the late 1950s, he returned to the the age of 93 on July 10 in Crossett, (1922-2008), a longtime resident of East to study forestry at Yale. In Ark. Ralph was born on February 9, Sewanee, Tenn., died on April 4 in 1966, he left a job with the Peabody 1915. A retired lieutenant com- Chattanooga, Tenn., at the age of 85. Museum of Natural History at Yale mander, U.S. Navy Reserve, he served During his 32-year tenure with the to be a special assistant in tropical in World War II as a PT boat skipper University of the South, Charles biology at the Smithsonian Institution in the Pacific-Solomon Islands. He served as a professor of forestry, in Washington, D.C. Through the earned a bachelor’s of science degree department chair, university forester 1970s and 1980s, he oversaw the in entomology from the University and dean of men. He also helped budgets, staff and general direction of Massachusetts before he studied develop the natural resources major, of the National Zoo, the National at Yale. As a retired forester for which has proven to be one of the Museum of Natural History, the Georgia-Pacific, he was a golden strongest majors in the college. He Harvard-Smithsonian Center for member of the Society of American graduated from Knoxville High Astrophysics and other scientific units Foresters and a member of the School and earned his undergraduate of the Smithsonian as assistant secre- Arkansas Forestry Association, degree in engineering from the tary for science and research. He was Louisiana Forestry Association and University of Tennessee before con- a member of the Charles Darwin the Chamber of Commerce. He tinuing at Yale for a master of forestry Foundation, the African Wildlife belonged to the First United degree. In 1962, he received a doctor Foundation and the Environmental Methodist Church, and he is remem- of forestry degree from the Duke Defense Fund. He is survived by his bered for his love of reading, golf School of Forestry. During World wife of 56 years, Joan of Washington, and traveling. He was preceded in War II, he served as an officer in the D.C.; three daughters, Julia of death by his wife, Lois Arnold of Army Corps of Engineers in the Amsterdam, Mary of Washington Tamarac, Fla. He is survived by a Philippine Islands. He received the and Sarah of San Francisco; a son, son, David of Flower Mound, Texas; Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal with David of Seattle; a sister; and six two daughters, Sue Chesney of bronze battle star, the Philippine grandchildren. Arlington, Texas, and Cheryl Jule of Liberation Ribbon with bronze star Kerrville, Texas; two brothers, Waldo and the World War II Victory Medal. Herbert Damon ’49 (1917-2008) of Tamarac and Theodore of Franklin, He was an Eagle Scout. Into his 80s, died peacefully at home in New Mass.; a sister, Helen Olsen of he played tennis and was an avid London, N.H., on March 13 at the Wrentham, Mass.; and six grandchil- reader and outdoorsman. He is age of 90. Herbert was born on dren and four great-grandchildren. survived by his wife, Joan; a son, December 24, 1917, in Malden, Charles; two daughters, Elizabeth Mass., and graduated from Phillips Bruce Atkinson ’64 (1934-2008) Thoni and Julia Denegre; and eight Exeter Academy and Amherst died in Green Valley, Ariz., on March grandchildren. College. Soon after, he enlisted in 3 after a lengthy illness. Born on the Navy, serving as an officer September 10, 1934, Bruce worked David Challinor ’59, Ph.D. ’66, aboard the destroyer USS Smith in as a forester, logging manager and (1920-2008) was a conservationist the South Pacific from 1941 to 1945. mill manager with MacMillan-Bloedel who combined his career as a top Having earned seven battle stars, he before and after his degree work at scientific administrator at the was second in command of the ship Yale. He was a founding analyst Smithsonian Institution with an when he was finally transferred with Nawitka Renewable Resource equally intense pursuit of excellence stateside to teach naval science at Consultants in 1974, which ran as a champion oarsman, rowing the University of Texas. He served forestry projects in 40 countries over competitively into his 80s. David with distinction as a citizen-soldier 28 years. His other business interests died on March 5 at the age of 87 of but is remembered as decrying war in communications and real estate congestive heart failure at his home as a solution. In 1946 he married eventually reduced his involvement in Washington, D.C. He was born in Margaret “Peggy” Damon, and he in forestry, but he continued analyzing New York City on July 11, 1920, obtained his master’s degree at the mill and marketing opportunities graduated from Harvard College a Forestry School as they were starting in Chile. He is survived by his year early and, in 1942, enlisted in the a family. After moving to North wife, Shirley; two sons, John of Navy. He served in the Mediterranean Conway, N.H., in 1949, he owned and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and Pacific theaters during World operated several ventures, including and Matthew of Vancouver, British War II, primarily on the escort carrier the Carroll County Service Company, Columbia; and a daughter, Sara, of Kasaan Bay. After the war, he moved a propane gas and appliance business, London. to Texas and worked as a cotton and a sawmill. He also worked as a broker, farmer and mortgage broker. forester, real estate agent and car-
Fall 2008 59 penter. From 1961 to the mid 1970s, during World War II in the South undergraduate degree from Cornell he taught general science to hundreds Pacific from 1944 to 1946. After and a Ph.D. in botany from the of junior high school students in earning his master’s degree at the University of Illinois in 1943. He Conway and Tamworth. In 1975, he Forestry School, he taught in the spent a year at Yale before becoming and Peggy moved to Tamworth, Forestry Department at the University an assistant and then associate pro- where they started Hollow Hill Farm, of Missouri, Columbia, from 1948 to fessor at the California Institute of a pick-your-own apple and berry 1953 while conducting his Ph.D. Technology. He was a leading plant business. They fully retired in 1993 research. He taught in the Forestry physiologist from the 1940s to 1970s. and moved to New London. He Department at Washington State He contributed not only to botany, became Peggy’s devoted caregiver University from 1953 until he retired but also to international relations, when she developed health problems in 1983. He was dedicated to his especially in the Far East, and to the and continued until her death in students, the preservation and field of bioethics. He was also the obituaries September 2007. From his early sustainable use of forests and the Eaton Professor Emeritus of MCDB, experiences on a canoe trip down development of the naturally perfect professor emeritus at the Institution the Allagash River at summer camp, Christmas tree. This quest took him for Social and Policy Studies, where he fell in love with the woods, on sabbatical to Europe in 1969, he served on the executive committee mountains and streams of northern where he pursued a pure source of for interdisciplinary bioethics proj- New England, a love that is evident seeds of the rare Spanish fir. He ects. He was chair of the Botany in his many watercolor landscape later planted them at the Forest Department in 1960 and was instru- paintings. He was an early trustee of Experiment Station in Vancouver, mental in arranging the merger of the Tin Mountain Conservation Wash. In 1981 he joined a WSU- the botany and zoology departments, Center and, with Peggy, an avid AID project in Indonesia, working chairing the newly merged depart- birder for many years. Together they with forestry faculty members at ment from 1985 to 1988. He was traveled from the Galapagos to Africa Universitas Hasanuddin in Ujung president of the Botanical Society of on birding and nature expeditions. He Pandang on the island of Sulawesi. America (BSA) and the American enjoyed young people, volunteering He was an active member of the Society of Plant Physiologists. He time with the Eastern Slope Ski Club, Pullman Presbyterian Church for organized and presided over a Junior Ski Program, Boy Scouts, Little many years and of the Society of bioethics and science seminar series League and the Community Center American Foresters. He married the held at the Joseph Slifka Center for in North Conway. He was a loving love of his life, Barbara, in St. Paul Jewish Life at Yale. His pioneering father, grandfather, brother and on June 6, 1947, sharing many research in plant physiology and uncle, and his lively, irreverent sense adventures and world travels with hormones later led to corporate of humor will be missed. He is sur- her. They celebrated their 50th and development of defoliants that were vived by a son, Edward of Concord, 60th wedding anniversaries with used for the production of Agent N.H.; two daughters, Martha Kane friends and family and were just five Orange during the Vietnam War. of Huntingtown, Md., and Susan days shy of celebrating their 61st The consequences of this led to his Hurst of Grantham, N.H.; seven when he died. He is survived by his passionate interest in bioethics as a grandchildren; a brother, Stephen of wife, Barbara; two daughters, Mary discipline. At the time of his death, Tamworth, and a sister, Patricia of Portland, Ore., and Judy Soule of he was preparing a presentation for Niswander of Concord; and numer- Alexandria, Va.; two brothers, A. the 40th anniversary of his BSA ous nieces, nephews and in-laws. Nelson and Gene; a sister, Dorothy Presidential Address, titled “Plants, Besides Peggy, he was predeceased Olson; a daughter-in-law, Tillay People and Politics,” which was to by an older brother, Harry of Grand Christensen; a son-in-law, Robert review how people “have not sought Rapids, Mich.; and an older sister, Soule; four grandchildren; and a to ameliorate the damage caused by Katharine Reed of North Conway. great-granddaughter. He was preceded this largest chemical warfare operation in death by his brother Roy and in history.” Richard (“Dick”) Dingle ’47, Ph.D. sister Eunice. ’53, (1918-2008) died on June 1 in George Hopkins ’37 (1912-2008), a Bismarck, N.D., at the age of 90. Arthur Galston (1920-2008), pro- former resident of Ballston Lake, Dick was born on January 5, 1918, fessor emeritus of molecular, cellular N.Y., died on May 18 at Kingsway and spent most of his childhood in and developmental biology at Yale, Arms Nursing Home. Born in St. Paul, Minn. He graduated with a died on June 15 at the age of 88 at Brooklyn on December 7, 1912, forestry degree from the University the Whitney Center in Hamden, George graduated from Burnt Hills of Minnesota in 1941 and served as where he lived with his wife, Dale. Ballston Lake High School and a Navy lieutenant on a landing craft Born in Brooklyn, Art received his received his biochemistry degree from
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area where the Earth and its community of life are Harvard. After earning his forestry years he was a seasonal worker for untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor degree, he worked at the GE Silicone the U.S. Forest Service in Oregon who does not remain.” Plant in Waterford, N.Y. He was a and Washington, and he was later Burch fondly recalls how he was, at that time, part member and leader of the Ballston assigned to a research study of the of a “coalition of nature lovers, pacifists and workers’ Center Associate Reformed timber resources in the Northwest Presbyterian Church. He is survived being conducted by the Pacific rights activists.” by his wife, Vernice, with whom he Northwest Forest and Range “We had diversity before anyone even knew what would have celebrated their 70th Experiment Station in Portland. In the term meant,” he says. “Even though the unity fell anniversary in June; a son, Richard late 1941, he transferred to the apart in the late 1960s, I still think that three-legged of Charlton, N.Y.; twin daughters, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as a Susan Malone of Guilderland, N.Y., timber valuation engineer. During paradigm of nature-peace-labor was a good one and and Sandra Knabner of Ballston World War II, he was an intelligence will return to the fore.” Lake; eight grandchildren; 13 great- officer in the Navy and was a graduate After his time with the Forest Service, Burch taught grandchildren; and numerous nieces of the Navy’s Advanced Intelligence at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and nephews. He was predeceased School. After the war, he returned to and Syracuse University, before hearing about what he by two brothers, William and John; the IRS in Portland, where he became and two sisters, Alice Eyreman and the manager of a group of foresters called “interesting developments” at Yale. Virginia Mayakis. and engineers. In 1973, he transferred “The Yale Forestry School was looking for nonecono- to the Seattle district office of the IRS mist social scientists,” he recalls. “That’s when Francois John Klinkam ’41 (1917-2008) died and was responsible for engineering Mergen was dean. He knew that changes had to be at home on March 31 at the age of and valuations audits in the five 90. Born on November 22, 1917, Northwest states, including Alaska. made to broaden the forestry school, so he brought in John lived in Seattle all his life. He He retired from the IRS in 1975. Herb Bormann, Rick Miller and me.” graduated from Franklin High School In retirement, he was a consultant Burch went on to author, co-author or edit 14 books and the University of Washington. until 1988. He was a member of on community development, natural resources and the After earning his forestry degree at the Beaverton Elks Lodge, the Yale, he became a forester and then Washington County Public Affairs environment, as well as 100 peer-reviewed journal served in the U.S. armed forces Forum, the Pacific Northwest articles. “The great benefit at Yale is that I didn’t have during World War II. After discharge Forest Service Association and the to do esoteric, peer academic work,” he says. “I could from the Army, he spent 43-plus Conductor’s Circle of the Oregon do other work.” years working for Boeing and earned Symphony. He is survived by a son, a reputation for excellence in quality Morten Lauridsen III; and five Among this “other work” was the reorganization of assurance for programs ranging from grandchildren. He was predeceased the state’s environmental protection department. In the B-17 bomber to space electronics by his wife, Evelyn; a son, Neal; and addition to the state government work, Burch was in the 1980s. He enjoyed painting, his sister, Helen Bucy of Bainbridge retained by the National Park Service as a researcher music, poetry and carpentry, as well Island, Wash. from 1984 to 1996. As such, he’s left his mark around as camping, hiking, fishing, boating and berry picking, and is remembered Peter Lewis ’80 (1950-2008) died the country and the world. for his sense of humor. He is sur- on August 26 at the age of 58. Born Machlis took such teachings to heart. vived by his wife of more than 50 on May 8, 1950, Peter was raised in “Bill emboldened me in my research by instilling in years, Helen Sprague of Seattle; two Rochester, N.Y. In 1970 he went to me that you don’t have to go toward conventional daughters, Mary and Monica; two Yosemite National Park to work on a sons, Craig and John; four grand- trail crew and fell in love with the acclaim. It has been 30 years and even though I am children; and a brother, Frank of mountains. He attended Columbia now his colleague [Burch and Machlis are collaborating Issaquah, Wash. University and finished his graduate on a book to be published in 2009 by Yale University studies in forestry at Yale. His class- Press.], I am still his student. I bought a place on Morten Lauridsen Jr. ’40 (1910-2008) mates at F&ES recall his trademark died at the age of 98 on August 8. black cowboy hat and how he often Vieques, Puerto Rico, near his place just to keep learning Morten was born in Seattle on carried his front bicycle wheel into from him. In my 35 years in academia, he is the one April 30, 1910, and graduated from class with him. He inspired thousands intellectual who is most capable of continued learning. Queen Anne High School in Seattle of young people to follow him into Bill is the exemplar of lifelong learning.” and from the College of Forestry at the backcountry for nearly 30 years the University of Washington with through his work with the California A tribute to Tom Siccama will appear in the spring 2009 issue. an undergraduate degree in forest Conservation Corps, where he management. During his college helped to create and sustain a back-
Fall 2008 61 country trails program that is a Pioneer Resource Conservation and as actor Lorne Greene and singers national model. Graduates of this Development Council. His faithful Burl Ives and Pete Seeger. He helped program have gone on to careers in involvement with and support of the develop the Smokey Bear and Johnny parks and forests throughout the F&ES Alumni Association was Horizon advertising campaigns for United States, advancing the steward- deeply valued and will be greatly forest fire prevention. He also played ship ethic that they learned from him. missed. He received awards for out- a role in President John F. Kennedy’s His sons, Gabe and Forrest, have standing service from a number of 1963 dedication of the Pinchot fond memories of their dad always these organizations for his dedication Institute for Conservation in Milford, sitting on the bleachers to watch to the principles of natural resource Pa. From the mid-1960s to the late their many sports events, hiking with conservation and sustainable devel- 1980s, he worked at the Department him through the Sierras, his love of opment, and he served numerous of the Interior on projects that swimming in cold mountain lakes local and regional groups. He is sur- included the Alaska Pipeline and the obituaries and rivers, how he enjoyed listening vived by three sons, David of Culver Endangered Species Act. He was an to talk radio and the way he loved to City, Calif., Bruce of Norwich, Vt., accomplished snow skier with the play the harmonica around the and Derrick of Russell; two foster National Ski Patrol, a fisherman and campfire. He is survived by his wife, daughters, Doreene Pangiarella of a tennis player, and he belonged to Cheryl; his sons, Gabe and Forrest; Ludlow, Mass., and Edna Hough of the Episcopal Church of the Holy a sister, Barbara Paulson; a brother, Pinebush, N.Y.; and 13 grandchildren. Cross in Dunn Loring, Va. Survivors Scott; two nieces, Julie Sherman He was predeceased by a brother, include his wife of 55 years, Shirley and Mariah Lewis; and a nephew, David; a sister, Joanne Tryon; and his of Falls Church, and a sister. Walker Paulson. Visit the website, former wife, Louise Hadden Mason. “Remembering Peter,” at Roger Melrose ’49 (1923-2008) died www.peterlewisccc.blogspot.com. John Mattoon ’50 (1921-2008), an peacefully at home in Onouli, Hawaii, outdoorsman who spent his career on June 26. Born in Seattle on Howard “Hap” Mason Jr. ’48 (1920- protecting wildlife and the environ- November 23, 1923, Roger was a 2008) of Russell, N.J., died on ment, died of congestive heart failure World War II Navy veteran who August 10 at Country Estates in on June 18 at his home in Falls served in the Pacific theater. He Agawam, Mass., at the age of 87. Church, Va. John was 86. Born in held degrees in forestry from the Hap was born in Somerville, N.J., on Hartford on July 25, 1921, to University of Washington and Yale September 24, 1920. From 1951 to Merwin and Margurite McLean and a master’s of divinity and hon- 1982, he served as chief forester for Mattoon, he graduated from Penn orary doctor of divinity degrees from Peck Lumber Company of Westfield, State and received a bachelor of the Church Divinity School of the Mass. His consulting service, Forest science degree in 1942. During Pacific. He was an Episcopal parish Resource Specialists, served land- World War II, he served on the air- minister in Kahaluu, Oahu and owners and timber harvesters in craft carrier USS Yorktown as a Navy Wailuku, Maui, before becoming the western Massachusetts for many SBD (Scout Bomber Douglas) dive founding headmaster of Seabury years. He was instrumental in pio- bomber pilot in the 88th Squadron. Hall, a private secondary boarding neering the environmental move- As a lieutenant, he took part in the and day school in Makawao, Maui, ments and modern sustainable sinking of a Japanese battleship under in 1964. He built and managed the forestry practices in New England. heavy fire. On another occasion, he school for 23 years before his retire- He was a member of many public dislodged a live bomb from the ment in 1987. He is survived by his interest and trade associations, undercarriage of his squadron wife, Charlotte; two sons, Kenneth including the Connecticut River leader’s aircraft—while in flight— of Kealakekua and Jeffrey of Hilo; Watershed Council, Westfield River using the wing tip of his own aircraft. two daughters, Anne Lombardo of Watershed Association, Massachusetts His maneuver enabled the plane to Oakhurst, Calif., and Nutie of Kula, Association of Professional Foresters, land safely on the Yorktown. For his Maui; a sister, Patty of Lake Oswego, Western Massachusetts Wood actions, he was twice awarded the Ore.; nine grandchildren; and two Producers Association, New England Distinguished Flying Cross and great-grandchildren. Society of American Foresters, received two Air Medals. In the early Massachusetts Tree Farm Committee, 1950s, he worked as a forest ranger Richard “Dick” M. Pierce ’48 (1920- Northeastern Loggers Association, in Washington, Oregon and Utah; he 2008) died at Franklin Memorial Environmental Lobby of later served as an executive in the U.S. Hospital in Farmington, Maine, on Massachusetts, Appalachian Mountain Forest Service. To help in preservation June 3 at the age of 88. Dick was Club, Massachusetts Forest efforts for national forests and land, born on February 21, 1920, in Stewardship Committee and Berkshire he mobilized national figures such Gardiner, Maine, and graduated from
62 environment:YALE The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies high school in 1937. He graduated Hurlon Ray ’49 (1921-2008) of Ziegler; three grandchildren; and from the University of Maine at Lonsdale, Ark., died on July 25 at two great-grandchildren. He was Orono in 1943 and was valedictorian the age of 87. Hurlon was born on predeceased by his wife, TyJuana. of his class. He was a replacement April 25, 1921, in Owensville, Ark., soldier for the 28th Infantry during and attended Saline and Garland Robert Teeters ’52 (1928-2008) of the D-Day invasion of World War II. County public schools, Arkansas Stamford, Conn., died on February 29 He was captured by the Germans in Tech University, the University of at the age of 79 in Stamford Hospital the Battle of the Bulge and was a Arkansas at Fayetteville, Utah State after a short illness. Robert was born prisoner of war for eight months University, Yale, USDA Graduate in Philadelphia on September 10, before being liberated by U.S. troops School in Washington, D.C., and the 1928, to Negley and Ruth Teeters. Visit the Yale at the end of the war. For his service, Federal Executive Institute in He attended Oak Lane Country School of Forestry he received the United Nations Charlottesville, Va. He served in the Day School and graduated from & Environmental Service Medal, the Oak Leaf Cluster Marine Corps during World War II Cheltenham High School in 1946. and two Bronze Star Medals, the in the South Pacific. In 1995, then Summers were spent in Maine and Studies website at Korean Service Medal with two Gov. Jim Guy Tucker appointed him on family farms in Minnesota, where environment.yale.edu Bronze Medals and a Purple Heart a delegate to the White House his love of the outdoors and the and a second Oak Leaf Cluster. After Conference on Aging. He served as belief in the necessity of government the war, he became a fire warden for a member of Metroplan-Central protection of natural resources were the Maine Forest Service, stationed Arkansas Regional Transportation fostered. He received his bachelor’s in Daaquam. He earned a master’s Study, was legislative chair for the of science degree from Oberlin degree in wood technology. He left Arkansas State Federation of National College, where he met and married Maine to construct wooden rotor Association of Retired Federal Nancy Hays. After earning his blades for Piasecki Helicopters in Employees and chair of the Arkansas master’s degree in forestry two years Swarthmore, Pa., and served as a Natural Heritage Commission. He later at Yale, he served as a medic in researcher for new wood processing sat on the board of directors of the the U.S. Army in Stuttgart, Germany, technologies at Timber Engineering in Arkansas Wildlife Federation and and then relocated to Washington Washington, D.C. In 1950 he joined the Arkansas Public Policy Panel. He D.C., where he served in the Office Fosters Manufacturing, where he was a member of the Saline County of Management and Budget. In worked for 14 years, taking time to Planning Commission, was on the 1965, he joined the Army Corps of serve in the Korean War as a combat Saline County Public Facilities Board Engineers in the Policy, Programs engineer. He was discharged as a and worked for improving Arkansas and Legislative Directorate of Civil captain. He left Fosters as vice presi- Highway 5 and constructing a scenic Works. In 1972, he received the dent of production and engineering turnout. He was also instrumental Decoration for Meritorious Civilian in 1968 with a patent on part of the in helping to secure funds for the Service for his work on the nation’s design of the wooden clothespin. He Owensville and Paron Water environmental policy. He retired in then was employed in Old Town as Association. Author of over 100 1985 as chief of research and policy mill manager for Lily Tulip Cup, the technical papers dealing with envi- for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. largest paper cup manufacturing ronmental pollution control, he In retirement, he was a member and company in the United States at the received the EPA/ES Distinguished president of the Long Island Sound time. He was a vice president at Service Award and was one of the Task Force and was a world traveler. Highland Lumber before retiring in principal architects of the Federal He is survived by his wife, Nancy; 1987. He liked working in his garden Clean Water Act. At 82, he was two sons, James and John; a daughter, and wood shop and was involved in deeply involved in what he called Ann; six grandchildren; and his numerous organizations, committees the most important fight of his life: brother, Ralph. and councils. He was an Eagle clearing up the Middle Fork of the Scout. He is survived by a daughter, Saline River, the Central Arkansas Marjorie of Waterbury, Vt.; two sons, waterway on which he and four Richard of Industry, N.Y., and David generations of his family grew up. of Portage, N.Y.; two grandchildren; He was a member of the White Oak two step-grandchildren; and his Springs Hunting Club of Princeton, German shepherd, Lady. He was Ark., and the Owensville Baptist predeceased by his first wife, Rita; Church. He is survived by three sons, and his brother, Phillip Pierce. Harold, Daryl and Gaylon; two brothers, D.L. Ziegler and J.R.
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January 2002 I went directly to the provost herself. We met and I followed up with this note:
Alison, I want to say honestly that this PSPP has been the most distressing and disappointing thing that has happened to me in a long time. … There is simply no Saving way on God’s green earth that we can live with a new F&ES building anchored at one end by PSPP. Can you imagine how silly we would all look if Yale’s first green building Indonesia’s had at its heart the very technology we are trying to replace? I believe Pierre [the deputy provost] made a huge mistake in going along with Roberto’s [Yale’s energy czar] proposal Tropical Forests to reverse his original plan to terminate PSPP. for Climate Fight I suggested…that someone creative and informed be asked to come up with least-cost alternatives to Roberto’s current proposal. For a year and a half, no one has done that, unbelievably. For you to ask for that would not commit you or anyone to those alternatives. By Michael Coren ’09 tanding in one of the hundreds This stalemate continued until finally my wife and I talked it over, and I decided that it of oil palm plantations in was either me or the power plant—one of us was not going to remain at Yale. I communicated Borneo, on the ragged edge of this to the provost. I’m shortening a very long story, but it has a happy ending. Imagine my S Indonesia’s agricultural frontier, I delight and surprise when President Levin called to thank me for forcing the issue, because the stared across a flat landscape at a university had actually found a way to save money through an alternative to keeping the PSPP! lonely cluster of rainforest trees as A lesson from the building of Kroon and the greening of Yale is the importance of leader- conspicuous as ship masts in the ship. I have already spoken of Steve’s. But given the way Yale works, we needed leadership open sea. The once-dense wall of elsewhere at Yale, and we soon got it. Some members of the Yale planning and facilities staff tropical forest has been replaced by bought into our dream and began to lead. Even more, there was a wholesale turnover in surgically precise rows of plantation personnel in key positions—including in administration, finance and facilities; with the palms. There are now over 23,000 arrival of John Pepper as a new vice president, who brought in people like Jerry Warren square miles of oil palm in Indonesia; and John Bollier; in the new sustainability office led by Julie Newman. And, of course, the this will double to an area twice the greening of Yale has not occurred without the greening of Yale’s president. Rick Levin size of Maryland by 2020. supported us every step of the way, determined to green Yale, and has taken the fight to Indonesia’s forests are being lost protect our climate to universities around the world. in a wave of new plantations growing All of this new leadership has represented a sea change at Yale. That was the road taken, fiber, food and fuel, often accompa- and as Robert Frost said, taking that road “made all the difference.” nied by illegal logging. By 2020, the The final lesson I want to stress is the sheer amount of hard work that has been involved. lush lowland rainforests of Borneo, And here I must pay special tribute to Deputy Dean Alan Brewster. Along with Steve, Alan which gave scientists an average of has carried the ball for us in the huge effort to get the building’s energy system right and has three new species per month during represented us in countless meetings with Yale facilities and planning and with our architects the last decade, will disappear. By and our builders. He is now even fretting about where each faculty member’s new office will mid-century, tropical ecologists be, getting the furniture and fixtures right, and so on. And a constant for Steve and Alan has estimate, most of the world’s tropical been the point count on the way to LEED-platinum certification. There will be plaques in forests will have also shuffled off Kroon recognizing our donors, and they certainly deserve it, but I personally would like to put one there recognizing Steve and Alan. Their vision, constant attention and inspired pre- into history. sentations have also made all the difference. I arrived in Indonesia in August Now, most of the big decisions and, I trust, all of the big struggles are behind us. Kroon 2007 to help rewrite that scenario. is rising. It is fun to see it take shape, and it will be a joy to be in it. Soon we will be able to Almost a quarter of the world’s enjoy the gift that the remarkable generosity of Mary Jane and Rick Kroon, Ed Bass, Carl greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions Knobloch, Gil Ordway, Jonathan Rose, Coley Burke, Adrienne and John Mars, Joan and Dick begin in the burning and clearing of Tweedy, William Waxter and many others, has made possible. We have learned a lot from tropical forests. If the worst of climate this process, from working with some of the most talented and committed people in the change is to be avoided, tropical world, like the inspired architects at Hopkins and Centerbrook and the green-building gurus deforestation will have to slow and at atelier ten. It’s been quite a ride. Yale has learned a lot. The whole process has brought the then stop during the coming century. university forward. It has been a blessing and will be for a long time. The market, once seen as part of the problem, could become the solution.
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A global policy framework called experimented with these measures steps will be taken in Poland and REDD (Reduced Emissions From with some success. But, ultimately, Denmark, where negotiators plan to Deforestation and Degradation), a savvy mix of development and thrash out a new climate agreement intends to place a price on the conservation projects will need by 2009. carbon stored in forests. to conserve forest where it can— But projects are happening now. The challenge is simple. “Forests improving the environment and the During the last six months, along are worth more dead than alive,” lives of people who live there—and with research on forestry carbon says tropical ecologist John Terborgh, sacrifice some to the mounting markets, I have helped evaluate and author of Requiem for Nature. pressures of economic development. design forestry conservation projects Clearing tropical forests may create Last year, I joined a World Bank that will fit into this evolving REDD wealth, but at a steep price to the 800 team of 60 international experts framework. These private-sector million people living in them; most developing Indonesia’s strategy to projects, quickly moving ahead of of the world’s species (50 percent of recruit tropical forests in the fight international negotiations, may lay known biodiversity can be found in against climate change. Working the foundation for work that must tropical forests); and the climate, under Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry be done globally. In places like which is kept cool by the belt of in Jakarta, the team drafted a REDD Indonesia, success or failure will tropical forests holding nearly as proposal for the 2007 U.N. climate depend on rewarding developing much carbon as the atmosphere. In conference held in Bali. Since then, countries fairly to conserve their the words of economists, unchecked developments have rushed ahead. deforestation is among the world’s The meeting’s Bali Action Plan largest market failures. A successful REDD framework will turn this on its head. By giving Almost a quarter of the poor countries access to a potential $5 billion to $12 billion market for world’s greenhouse gas forestry carbon credits—far more than the $1.5 billion given for forests emissions begin in the in developing countries as foreign aid each year—REDD puts a down burning and clearing payment on forests to reduce future GHG emissions. Industrialized of tropical forests. countries can meet a portion of their emission targets by avoiding deforestation across the tropics, Shapiro Harold even as most emissions reductions pushes “demonstration activities” to Michael Coren ’09 come from energy and industrial create a global REDD policy for the sectors. If REDD works, it will do next climate agreement that will forests while delivering credible GHG what no aid or government policy replace the Kyoto Protocol, the cuts to industrialized countries. has done for the last 50 years: slow current international climate treaty, If not, we will likely lose the last the rate of tropical deforestation. in 2012. Indonesia, along with chance to save most tropical How? In some countries it more than a dozen other countries, forests—already more than 50,000 means stopping illegal logging by is preparing by building satellite square miles disappear each year— domestic and international law monitoring systems; forest carbon and find the future waiting for us in enforcement. In others, better plan- inventories; equitable mechanisms the rows of plantations blotting out ning and agricultural productivity to pay communities for forest con- the last forests of Borneo. will relieve pressure on the forest servation; and clear legal frameworks frontier. Brazil and Indonesia have to handle transactions. The next
Fall 2008 65 Faculty members of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies are now in video.
Watch F&ES professors on your desktop computer, mp3 player or on YouTube discuss their research. Go to the school’s website (http://environment.yale.edu) and choose from a variety of videos in the multimedia section of the home page, including “Religion and a New Environmental Ethic,” “The Mystery of Drowning Marshes,” “Sex and the Suburban Frog,” “The Environment and Economy in Collision,” “Calculating the Costs of Climate Change” and “The Predator-Prey-Plant Connection.”
You can also subscribe to F&ES audio segments for free through iTunes or just listen to them by visiting the school’s website. The segments include “The Heart of the Matter,” “It’s Not Easy Being a Frog,” “Biophilic Design: Opening the Door to Nature,” “Green to Gold,” “Global Warming and Species Distribution,” “Industrial Ecology: Why Waste Waste?,” “Poor Countries Pay the Price for Global Warming” and “Burn Trees, Save Energy.”
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