Bruce Byers

Bruce Byers is an ecologist, independent consultant, and writer with more than 35 years of professional experience in more than 40 countries. He works at the interface of ecology and sustainable development, combining an academic background in ecology and evolution with extensive practical experience in applied social sciences. Bruce provides ecological consulting services to U.S. government agencies and international and domestic non-governmental organizations on forest management, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, and environmental communication and behavior change. He writes about his consulting and research in academic journals, reports for consulting clients, and his blog Ecologia. He was the Fall 2018 Howard L. McKee Ecology Resident at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Otis, Oregon, where he researched and wrote a book of creative nonfiction essays on the Cascade Head Biosphere Reserve, titled The View from Cascade Head: Lessons for the Biosphere from the Oregon Coast (Oregon State University Press, 2020).