Profiles written by Courtney White, originally published in Headwaters News.
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Much of the Southwest's de facto wilderness needs work, including with chainsaws; or natural landscapes will disappear.

Excerpt:
"Craig Allen is trying hard to make ecology relevant.

"This effort is not only evident in the many articles he has written for scientific journals, the many lectures he has given on forests and fire to a wide variety of audiences, and in the elegant experiments in ecological restoration he is conducting, but also in the energy he puts into a conversation about forests while just hiking to a project site.

"Clearly, Allen loves what he does.

"And what Allen does is try to understand fundamental ecological processes in the woodlands and forests of the Jemez Mountains, west of Santa Fe, N.M. Employed by the US Geological Survey and stationed at Bandelier National Monument, Allen has devoted nearly 20 years of his professional life to gaining a comprehensive understanding of landscape health and sickness, and what constitutes appropriate cures...."