Ben A. Minteer

Ben A. Minteer is a professor of environmental history, philosophy, and conservation in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. He writes about wilderness, wildlife conservation, and the development of environmental thought, especially in the American West. Minteer is an author or editor of more than a dozen books, including The Heart of the Wild: Essays on Nature, Conservation, and the Human Future (2024), Wild Visions: Wilderness as Image and Idea (2022), The Fall of the Wild: Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation (2018), After Preservation: Preserving American Nature in the Age of Humans (2015), and The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America (2006). He lives in Tempe, AZ, with his wife and daughter.