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CONTACT MICHAEL
Phone: 970-527-4719
Email: msoule36@gmail.com
Mail: PO BOX 1808, Paonia, CO 81428
 
UPCOMING EVENTS AND TALKS
Talks for 2012 will be posted soon.
 
PUBLICATION ARCHIVE NEARLY COMPLETE
NOTE:
While articles are still being added to complete this archive, much of Michael's published work is available here.
 
Michael E. Soulé
Biographical Sketch

Michael Soulé is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. He was born, raised, and educated in California. After spending much of his youth in the canyons, deserts, and intertidal of San Diego and Baja California, and after graduating from San Diego State, he went to Stanford to study population biology and evolution under Paul Ehrlich.  
 
Michael's Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

View document here.
 
Big, Wild, and Connected
Formed a decade ago, the bold and visionary Wildlands Project has advanced conservation a critical step by imagining wilderness not simply as remote scenery or playgrounds for outdoor enthusiasts but as nurseries for life in its full variety and magnificence. A dozen vigorous, local ecosystem-conservation campaigns are now underway in the Americas, from A2A (Algonquins to Adirondacks) to Y2Y (Yellowstone to Yukon), from the Maine Woods National Park proposal to the Patagonia Land Trust's ambitious efforts in Argentina.

Each wildlands campaign has a regional base and scope, and each shares a common strategy: to connect large wilderness cores by wildlife corridors and to create buffer zones near settled areas to lessen human impact. Beyond these basics, strategies to acquire and preserve land vary according to need and circumstances.
 
Soulé Interviewed by Michelle Nijhuis
about the biology of Sin 'Sinners, repent! How our natural self-bias got us into this mess'
click here to read article in "Grist"
 
News Release - CONNECTING NATURAL LANDSCAPES
Using a Landscape Permeability Model to Prioritize Conservation Activities in the US
Article to be published in Conservation Letters in early February by David M. Theobald, Sarah E. Reed, Kenyon Fields, and Michael Soulé

Keywords:
climate change adaptation; habitat loss and fragmentation; gradients; graph theory; landscape connectivity

with the Abstract.  
 
Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth
A new paper Michael contributed to was just published in Science Magazine. By Estes, et. all.
view abstract here
 
Wildlands Network News
click here for information on Trek East link to John Davis' blog.
 
Interview in YES! Magazine
read interview on Connectivity in YES!
 
Cristina Eisenberg Interview about Wolves
click to listen here listen to this terrific interview on NPR affiliate with Cristina Eisenberg on wolves
 
Interview on Izilwane
Soule Interview

01 December 2010: Michael Soulé, Grandfather of Conservation Biology by Alexander Q. Gilbert

read online, here
 
Nature's Asprin
Download and listen to this talk by Michael Soulé on Nature's Asprin. Recorded August 11, 2010 at KVNF public radio. click here
 
Western Conservation Summit
Download NATURE’S ASPIRIN TEXT

Michael Soulé spoke at the Western Conservation Summit January 2009. Hosted by the Wildlands Network and Spine of the Continent Initiative Members.
 
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