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Chris Maser

This week, Dr. Caldicott talks to Chris Maser, author and international consultant in forest ecology and sustainable forestry practices. Trained primarily as a vertebrate zoologist, Maser has spent over 25 years as a research scientist in natural history and ecology, including positions as a research ecologist with the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management for thirteen years from 1974 the last eight studying old-growth forests in western Oregon and a landscape ecologist with the Environmental Protection Agency for one year in 1990. Maser is the author of Resolving Environmental Conflicts and Decision-Making for a Sustainable Environment: A Systemic Approach (Social Environmental Sustainability). Some of the topics covered in this interview include Maser’s theories on adapting to change, relationships between men and women, women’s inequality in a patriarchal order, the prevalence of fear and greed, our connection or lack thereof to the environment, and America’s spiritual bankruptcy. Maser describes his childhood spent in a near-wilderness, and how that shaped his views.