Bruce A. Byers

Bruce A. Byers is an ecologist, writer and international environmental consultant whose work aims to inform and inspire a more ecologically sustainable, equitable, and resilient relationship between humans and the biosphere. His research, writing, and consulting have taken him to more than forty countries. Bruce is the author of The View from Cascade Head: Lessons for the Biosphere from the Oregon Coast, published in 2020, and Nature on the Edge: Lessons for the Biosphere from the California Coast, published in 2024. These books of interdisciplinary creative nonfiction essays explore three internationally recognized biosphere reserves on the US Pacific Coast—Golden Gate, Channel Islands, and Cascade Head—from ecological, evolutionary, human cultural, political, and philosophical perspectives. His writing has also appeared in Ecotone (the blog of the Ecological Society of America), Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, The Ecological Citizen, and Patagon Journal. Bruce’s blog, Ecologia, with almost 150 entries since 2011, describes his travel, research, consulting, and ecological adventures in the US and around the world.