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William Wallace Covington
William Wallace (Wally) Covington (1947, Oklahoma) is a Regent's Professor of Forest Ecology at Northern Arizona University (NAU), and the Director of the Ecological Restoration Institute at NAU. Covington is known for his research and outreach activities on forest health and ecological restoration, drawn from his research since 1970 on the Ponderosa pine, aspen, dry mixed conifer, and pinyon-juniper forests and woodlands of the West, particularly those that surround Flagstaff, Arizona. He has been called perhaps the nation's most visible forest scientist, by Science magazine.〔Malakoff, David. 2002. Arizona ecologist puts stamp on forest restoration debate. Science 297:2194-2196〕
==Biography==
Covington spent his youth in Oklahoma and Texas. His father, who died when Covington was young, instilled in his son a love and respect of nature. They spent every other weekend out of doors, living off the land. He also introduced his son to the teachings of restoration pioneer Aldo Leopold, who became a major influence on Covington. Covington's mother was a schoolteacher, and encouraged his scholastic nature. Covington excelled at school, and received his B.A. (honors) in Biology at the University of North Texas in 1969. He enrolled directly in medical school, with the intention of studying pediatric oncology. The emotional nature of the work took its toll, however, and he took a year's leave to teach school in Gallup, New Mexico. He never returned to medical school. Instead, inspired by ecology classes taken as an undergraduate, he enrolled in the graduate program at the University of New Mexico, where he earned an M.S. in ecology in 1972. Covington continued on to earn a Ph.D. in 1976 from Yale University's Forestry Department, where Leopold studied. Covington joined the faculty at Northern Arizona University in 1975, and began researching the ponderosa pine forests in the area. In 1996 Covington became the founder and director of the new Ecological Restoration Program, established with funding provided by the Arizona legislature to NAU. Researchers from the program began to work with land managers to design, implement, and monitor restoration treatments at a variety of sites in the West. In 2004 Congress passed PL 108-317 establishing the Ecological Restoration Institute (ERI) at NAU and sister institutes in New Mexico (the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute at Colorado State University) and New Mexico (the New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute at New Mexico Highlands University). The ERI, along with its sister institutes provides ecological restoration research, development, and outreach throughout the West, as well as work experience, formal course work, and thesis opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Covington has been recognized as Outstanding Teaching Scholar by NAU for his dedication to involving undergraduates in his applied research projects, and bringing research results into the classroom and the field. Covington also presents invited testimony before congressional and state natural resource committees, gives presentations, and provides field trips for leaders of conservation agencies, such as the United States Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, and Washington Offices of agencies, such as the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Agriculture.
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