Dr. Dominick A. DellaSala is President and Chief Scientist of the Geos Institute in Ashland, Oregon and President of the Society for Conservation Biology, North America Section. He is an internationally renowned author of over 150 technical papers on forest and fire ecology, conservation biology, endangered species management, and landscape ecology. Dominick has given plenary and keynote talks ranging from academic conferences to the United Nations Earth Summit. He has appeared in National Geographic, Science Digest, Science Magazine, Time Magazine, Audubon Magazine, National Wildlife Magazine, High Country News, Terrain Magazine, NY Times, LA Times, USA Today, Jim Lehrer News Hour, CNN, MSNBC, “Living on Earth (NPR),” several PBS documentaries and even Fox News! His recent book “Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World: Ecology and Conservation” (Island Press) received an academic excellence award in 2012 from Choice magazine, one of the nation's premier book review journals. Dominick cofounded the Geos Institute in July 2006. He is motivated by his work to leave a living planet for his daughter and all those that follow.