Conserving America's National Parks (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781515062547)

Scott Abella has a B.S. in Natural Resources Management and an Environmental Chemistry minor from Grand Valley State University, a M.S. in Forest Resources from Clemson University, and a Ph.D. in Forest Science with an emphasis in Restoration Ecology from Northern Arizona University. Since 2004, he has been qualified as a wildland firefighter. He has conducted research and conservation projects across the United States in eastern forests, Midwestern prairies and oak savannas, western forests, and southwestern arid lands. He has worked in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Saguaro National Park, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Death Valley National Park, Mojave National Preserve, Joshua Tree National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, and Pecos National Historical Park. In 2012 and 2013, he worked with the Biological Resource Management Division of the Washington, D.C., office of the National Park Service. He is currently on the faculty of the School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas. He also owns Natural Resource Conservation LLC, an international company dedicated to providing applied science supporting conservation actions. Work for this book brought him to see conservation projects in familiar and less-familiar parks of Olympic, Crater Lake, Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree, Wupatki, Klondike Gold Rush, and many others.