From recycled products to organic food, the movement to be "environmentally friendly" is now expanding into the forestry field. Recognizing this impact, Home Depot has committed to giving preference to selling "certified wood," proven to come from forests that meet certain biological and social sustainablility standards. Retailers and vendors can offer certified wood through the international Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and FSC accredited organizations like SmartWood, recently featured in People magazine.
I spent over 25 years as a research scientist in natural history and ecology in forest, shrub steppe, subarctic, desert, coastal, and agricultural settings. Trained primarily as a vertebrate zoologist, I was a research mammalogist in Nubia, Egypt, (1963-1964) with the Yale University Peabody Museum Prehistoric Expedition and a research mammalogist in Nepal (1966-1967), where I participated in a study of tick-borne diseases for the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit #3 based in Cairo, Egypt. I conducted a three-year (1970-1973) ecological survey of the Oregon Coast for the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington. I was a research ecologist with the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management for thirteen years (1974-1987)--the last eight studying old-growth forests in western Oregon--and a landscape ecologist with the Environmental Protection Agency for one year (1990-1991).
Today I am an independent author as well as an international lecturer, facilitator, and consultant in resolving environmental conflicts, vision statements, sustainable community development, as well as forest ecology and sustainable forestry practices.
I have written over 285 publications, including 34 books I have either written or coauthored in the last 20 years. My books are in libraries in 74 countries, including the United States and Canada.
I have lived, worked, consulted, and/or Lectured in: Austria * Canada * Chile * Egypt * France * Germany * Japan * Malaysia * Mexico * Nepal * Slovakia * Switzerland * and various settings in the United States.
If you want to know more or contact me, you can visit my website at "chrismaser.com"
If you want to watch a presentation I gave at Missouri State University, go to my website and click on "essays," scroll down to "Environmental" on the left side, and then click on "The Law of Cosmic Unification," which is the first essay under this topic. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, and you will see the link.
