Dominick DellaSala

Dr. Dominick A. DellaSala has worked for several nonprofit conservation organizations for >40 years as a global biodiversity and climate change scientist while also serving as President of the Society for Conservation Biology, North America Section. He is an internationally renowned author of >300 peer-reviewed articles and 9 co-authored award-winning books, including Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World: Ecology and Conservation; Mixed-Severity Fire: Nature’s Phoenix; and Conservation Science & Advocacy for a Planet in Peril: Speaking Truth to Power. Dominick has given keynote talks ranging from academic conferences to the United Nations (Earth Summit II). He has appeared in National Geographic, Science Digest, Science Magazine, Time Magazine, Audubon Magazine, National Wildlife Magazine, High Country News, Terrain Magazine, NY Times, LA Times, USA Today, Jim Lehrer News Hour, CNN, MSNBC, “Living on Earth (NPR),” and several PBS documentaries. He has testified as an expert witness at numerous congressional hearings in defense of the Endangered Species Act, roadless areas, national monuments, old-forest protections, and climate change remediation among others. For his efforts to help foster national roadless areas conservation and designation of new national monuments, he received conservation leadership awards from the World Wildlife Fund in 2000 and 2004, the Wilburforce Foundation in 2006, and was twice nominated for conservation awards for his work as a whistleblower while on the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service spotted owl recovery team. Dominick is motivated by leaving a living planet for his 2 daughters, 4 grandkids, and all those that follow.