"My purpose is to be a gentle, peaceful, and healing force –
                both among people and within our collective relationship with the earth."

Through education, personal experience and exploration, and numerous special assignments,
    Zane has a highly developed ability to integrate complex, dynamic, and seemingly disparate
    concepts into a cohesive whole – working comfortably in both technical and organizational/
    individual contexts. His experience working in interagency and “varied interest” situations is
    extensive. The arenas in which Zane has significant experience are: ecosystem management;
    organizational change and leadership; management of resource information in the context of
    decision making; ethics, both professional and "land ethics"; natural resource policy 
    development; and natural resource management "on the ground”. He has received numerous
    professional awards, completed NLC’s Facilitator Training Program and earned six Certificates
    of Continuing Forestry Education.

Selected Special Assignments Prior to forming Integrations

Forest Service team writing new national policy language for sale and distribution of resource
information. 1995.

Forest Service ad hoc team developing a national conflict management program. 1995.

Policy analysis assignment to the Forest Service Washington Office to develop papers on sustainability,
communities of interest, and ethics and professionalism. 1995.

Consultant to NASA project with the University of Minnesota and Minnesota DNR, integrating remote
sensing imagery, GIS, and ecosystem management into tactical applications in DNR field offices –
within the context of DNR moving from hierarchical to team-based management. 1994.

Forest Service representative on the interagency Prince William Sound Ecosystem Management initiative.
1994 - 1996.

Core Committee, SUNY environmental ethics curriculum development program. 1993 - 1995.

Forest Service representative on the Alaska Geographic Data Committee. 1993 - 1996.

Policy analysis assignment to the Forest Service Washington Office to develop a white paper on
why ecosystem management is an appropriate management philosophy. 1993.

USDA (Forest Service) representative on the Exxon Valdez Oilspill Ecosystem Management
Steering Committee. 1993.

Grey Towers Conservation Fellow. In residence at Grey Towers studying the relationships between
land ethics and leadership in natural resource management. 1992.

USDA (Forest Service) representative on the Exxon Valdez Oilspill Geographic Data Committee.
1989-1990.
 

Selected Publications

    The Courage to Say “Not Yet” to the Proposed Code of Ethics. Journal of Forestry, August 2000.

Ethics and Moral Choices. Western Forester, Jan/Feb 1999.

Integrity as Professionalism: Ethics and Leadership in Practice. In The Land Ethic, Society of American
Foresters. 1998. Senior author, with Jack Ward Thomas.

Leadership and Integrity in Natural Resource Management: Ethics in Practice.  Rangelands, August 1996.
Senior author, with Jack Ward Thomas.

Birch Seeds, Leadership, and a Relationship with the Land. Journal of Forestry, September 1995.

GIS as a Catalyst for Effective Public Involvement in Ecosystem Management.  In Remote Sensing and
GIS in Ecosystem Management, Island Press, 1994.

A Definition of Sustainability for Ecosystem Management.   Eco-Watch, July 1994. With David Iverson.

Ecosystem Management: Why Now? Ecosystem Management Newsletter, Vol 1, No 14,  June 1994.

Take Another Look.   Western Forester, Guest Editorial, May 1994.

There is no "They"!   Western Forester, February 1994.

The Poetry Within.   Journal of Forestry, December 1993.  (Also reprinted as "The Poetry Within Us”
in The Conservation Legacy, December 1993.)

Desire and Loyalty.   Eco-Watch, October 1993.

The Ethics of Forest Stewardship.   Journal of Forestry, April 1993. With James Coufal.

Organizing to Care for the Land and Serve People.   Eco-Watch, March 1993.

Recapturing Our Passion.   Journal of Forestry, October 1990.

Zane's photographs have also been published numerous times in national publications.

Selected Professional Presentations (all invited):

    Leadership and Land Ethics.  The Wildlife Society Annual Meeting. Spokane, Washington. April, 2002.

Ethics Consultant to the Program Without Walls, and Land Ethics Dialogue. Soil and Water
Conservation Society’s Annual Meeting, Keystone, Colorado, July 1996.

Sustainability: In Practice and Policy.  Natural Resource Policy and Law Seminar, University of
Washington, Seattle, January 1995.

Conference synthesis/wrap-up.  Landscape Management Across Diverse Ownerships,  Oregon and
Washington Societies of American Foresters, Beaverton, Oregon, November 1993.

Ecosystem Management: An Overview  and  Participatory Decision Making.   Ecosystem Management
Seminar, Alaska Society of American Foresters, Anchorage, October 1993.

GIS and Public Involvement in the NEPA Process.  National Land Management Planning Analysis
Workshop,  USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, Colorado, June 1993.

The Use and Abuse of Resource Information. Canadian Institute of Forestry Annual Meeting,
Vancouver, British Columbia, September 1992.

Wholeness and Leadership in Natural Resource Management.   Project Learning Tree International
Conference, Keystone, Colorado, May 1992.

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