Michael Paul Nelson is a Senior Fellow with the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word. From 2012 - 2022 he was lead Principal Investigator for the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest Long-Term Ecological Research Program. “Michael is different from most philosophers. He’s funny and irreverent and worried about the world, and especially about wolves.” – Kathleen Dean Moore, Great Tide Rising: Towards Clarity and Moral Courage in a time of Planetary Change