John serves as scout, editor, interviewer, and writer for the Rewilding Institute. He also works as a rewilding advocate for the Adirondack Council, a member-supported group defending the ecological integrity and wild character of New York’s great Adirondack Park. John is on the boards of RESTORE: The North Woods, Eddy Foundation, and Algonquin to Adirondack Conservation Collaborative. He previously was editor of Wild Earth, worked for the Foundation for Deep Ecology, and succeeded Dave Foreman as executive director of the Rewilding Institute. In 2011, John completed TrekEast, a 7,600-mile, muscle-powered exploration of wilder parts of the eastern U.S. and southeastern Canada. In 2013, he trekked from Sonora, Mexico, north along the Spine of the Continent as far as southern British Columbia, Canada, ground-truthing Rewilding North America and promoting habitat connections, big wild cores, and apex predators. Email John.

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