By
Robert Hudson Westover
My
love of the great outdoors was instilled in me many years ago when my parents
loaded up the car and took us kids on an epic camping trip to a pine covered area
of Northern California near the Shasta-Trinity
National Forest.
It
was here, surrounded by the splendor of the natural world, in a secluded
campsite near a stream that we sat around a campfire and Dad explained to us
how lucky we were to have this great outdoors wilderness—owned by all
Americas--that we can come to whenever we want.
I
never forgot that trip.
Later
in life I was further inspired by the tireless environmental conservation work
of HRH Prince Charles and tangibly
through my honorary Godmother, Olga C. Morgan and her work with Green Peace. So at an early age I began working on environmental
issues. However, this was on a voluntary basis and included things like urban
and wilderness area trash clean ups and informally educating inner city kids on
the importance of green areas.
I
didn’t start making my living in conservation until 2005 when I landed a job
with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and now the U.S. Forest Service.
Since
then I have been fortunate enough to be exposed to some of the most brilliant
minds in environmental conservation including several winners of the IPCC Noble Peace
Prize for climate change science.
Now
I blog and tweet regularly on environmental issues. Below are some of my blogs (and
articles) on climate change and sustainability dating back to 2006:
