Name
Dr. John Carter

WWP Affiliation
Board member, Utah Director

Residence
Mendon, Utah

Family
Akitas Kiesha, Toqi and Niki. ("No humans measure up.")

Occupations (former and current)
Consulting engineer; research and applied ecologist. Work focused on determining physical, chemical and biological relationships in arid ecosystems in order to apply appropriate restoration strategies; cleaning up Superfund sites; investigating abandoned uranium mining and milling sites for continuing contamination; assisting industry with environmental compliance.

Other Conservation Affiliations
Audubon, Center for Biological Diversity, Committee for the High Desert, Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, Oregon Natural Desert Association, Sierra Club National Grazing Committee, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Wildlands Center for Preventing Roads, Wildlands Project.

Memorable Conservation Experience
As chairman of Logan chapter of the Sierra Club in 1970s, helped get wilderness designation for the Wellsville Wilderness next to my home in Mendon by obtaining support from local city councils for wilderness designation.

Spectacular Wildlife Encounters
Every time I am able to observe wildlife in a natural, undisturbed setting, whether it is a jackrabbit, weasel, goshawk, bear, coyote or chickadee. I am waiting to see wolves on my place in Paris Canyon, Idaho. That will be the top!

Other Interests
Preserving my land in Bear Lake County, Idaho, for wildlife; music; backpacking and camping with my dogs; watching and photographing wildlife when the opportunity arises.

Favorite Place(s) in the West
Uinta Wilderness, Utah; southern Utah desert; Wind Rivers until they became overrun with people.

Conservation Hero(es)
Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Sigurd E Olsen and Edward Abbey.

Book Recently Read
"Runes of the North" (Sigurd Olson), "Singing Stone: A Natural History of the Escalante Canyons" (Tom Fleischner), "First Man in Rome" (Colleen McCullough), "Desert Solitaire" (Edward Abbey, 10th time).

Quotes to Live By
Thoreau: "In wildness is the preservation of the world"; Aldo Leopold: "One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." Leopold: "I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river who wields the brush, and it is the same river who, before I can bring my friends to view his work, erases it forever from human view. After that it exists only in my mind's eye."

Three Wishes for the Planet
That humans become less self centered and more carefully considerate of the environment that sustains us physically and spiritually That the human population declines to a self sustaining balance with nature, and that wild places are left wild. That we are able to preserve enough of the wild places and wild things for that time when humans are gone and the rest can live as nature intended for the remainder of time - without our exploitation, meddling and destruction.