Douglas Bevington

Douglas Bevington is Forest Program Director for Environment Now and the writer of the book The Rebirth of Environmentalism: Grassroots activism from the Spotted Owl to the Polar Bear.
Background
Doug Bevington is the current Forest Program Director for Environment Now (a grant-making foundation based in CA). He looks over Environment Now's programs to protect California's forests and commercial logging on our public lands.
He received his PhD sociology from UC Santa Cruz, and his dissertation was titled "The Rebirth of Environmentalism: Grassroots Activism and the New Conservation Movement, 1989-2004". In it, he examined the influence of grassroots forest and biodiversity protection groups on environmental policy implementation in the United States. At USSC, he also taught courses on social movement studies.
Bevington has been heavily involved in wildlife protection for more than 20 years.<ref name="EIJ"/> He used to work as the Regional Organizer for the John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute. He was also the Biodiversity Program Assistant for the Foundation for Deep Ecology, as has been active with the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Endangered Species Coalition, the Sierra Club, and the Board of Advisors of the Student Environmental Center.
He is married to Shaye Wolf, who received her bachelor's degree from Yale and master's degree from UCSC.

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