ADIRONDACK COUNCIL
HIRES NEW CONSERVATION DIRECTOR,
JOHN DAVIS OF ESSEX BEGINS WORK THIS WEEK
Davis is Editor &
Noted Champlain Valley Conservationist Honored in 2003 for His
Independent Projects
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John F. Sheehan
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Released: Thursday, November 3, 2005
ELIZABETHTOWN, NY - The Adirondack
Council today announced that it has hired John Davis to serve
as its new Conservation Director. Davis is a writer, editor,
land steward and ardent conservationist, with more than two decades
of experience in land preservation.
"We are thrilled that John Davis has agreed to join our
team," said Adirondack Council Executive Director Brian
L. Houseal. "We have gotten to know him well over the past
15 years, through his work at Wild Earth Magazine and the Foundation
for Deep Ecology. He has the right kind of experience and expertise
to fill one of our most important positions."
"Our conservation director is the hub around which all of
our efforts in the Park revolve," said Adirondack Council
Chairwoman Patricia Winterer. "John will be our eyes and
ears and our primary point of contact with state agencies. He'll
have his hands full, but the job will be in good hands."
"We were fortunate to have so many outstanding candidates
for this position," Houseal said. "It is rare that
we have a job opening like this one. This is one of the best
conservation jobs in the country. Not only do you get to be an
effective advocate for the Park's ecology and wildness, but you
get to live in the Adirondacks and work for an organization with
members in all 50 states and four continents. The competition
was intense."
Davis began his conservation career in the early 1980s with various
grassroots conservation groups, including Kentucky Rivers Coalition,
Appalachia-Science in the Public Interest, the Mt. Graham Coalition,
and Preserve Appalachian Wilderness. From 1990 to 1996, he was
cofounder and editor of Wild Earth magazine. He has served as
the editor of various conservation books, including Old Growth
in the East: Prospects for Rediscovery & Recovery, The Big
Outside, A Conspiracy of Optimism (a history of the US Forest
Service), and Defining Vermont.
From 1997 through 2003, Davis was the biodiversity and wilderness
program officer for the Foundation for Deep Ecology, based in
Sausalito, California, where he helped identify conservation
projects deserving of the foundation's financial support.
For the past few years, Davis has served as land steward for
the Eddy Foundation.
In August of 2003, Davis won an award from the Adirondack Council
for "Distinguished Achievement in Open Space Protection."
The award was based on his work at the Split Rock Wildway.
Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Davis spent much of his youth in
New Hampshire. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from St. Olaf College
in Minnesota in 1985.
Davis replaces former Conservation Director Jaime Ethier, who
left in August for a position with the Hudson River Greenway
Council.
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