The World is in My Garden: Using Gardening Issues to Illuminate Universal Concerns - Softcover

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Chris Maser spent over twenty-five years as a research scientist in natural history and ecology in forest, shrub steppe, sub-arctic, desert and coastal settings. Trained primarily as a vertebrate zoologist, he was a research mammalogist in Nubia, Egypt (1963-1964), with the Yale University Peabody Museum Prehistoric Expedition and was a research mammalogist in Nepal (1966-1967) for the U. S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3 based in Cairo, Egypt, where he participated in a study of tick-borne diseases. He conducted a three-year (1970-1973) ecological survey of the Oregon Coast for the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington. He was a research ecologist with the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management for twelve years (1975-1987)--the last eight studying old-growth forests in western Oregon, and a landscape ecologist with the Environmental Protection Agency for one year (1990-1991). Today he is an independent author of some twenty books, as well as an international lecturer, facilitator in resolving environmental disputes, vision statements, and sustainable community development. He is also an international consultant in forest ecology and sustainable forestry practices. Although he has worked in Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Slovakia, and Switzerland, he calls Corvallis, Oregon, home. For more information, visit his web site: www.chrismaser.com Zane Maser, with a M.S. in Counselling, has been involved for many years with the spiritual healing work of the White Eagle Lodge, which originated in England in the 1930s. She currently assists with the animal healing correspondence for the White Eagle Lodge in Montgomery, Texas, and contributes to the worldwide White Eagle magazine Stella Polaris and its journal of astrology, Altair. She is also an avid student of astrology, healing, and the Ancient Wisdom as taught by her spiritual teacher, White Eagle. Her interests include gardening, especially her large number of old garden and antique roses; hiking; writing; reading about the lives of the Masters and Saints; and enjoying a contented life with the three cats she and Chris have.