Development by Design
Nels Johnson is Deputy State Director for The Nature Conservancy’s Pennsylvania Chapter. He has worked on biodiversity and forest conservation projects in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and North America. Johnson’s work has focused on forest management, conservation priority setting, ecosystem services, and minimizing ecological impacts from climate change and energy development. He has published articles in Science, the Journal of Forestry, and Conservation Biology and is author/editor of several books on forest management, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services. Johnson serves as a trustee for the Pinchot Institute for Conservation and sits on several advisory committees to state agencies and non-governmental organizations. He was Deputy Director of the Biological Resources Program at the World Resources Institute before joining The Nature Conservancy. Johnson received a B.A. (biology) at Reed College and an M.F.S. (forest ecology) at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Additional Resource Materials (pdf): Johnson-Gagnolet_TNC PPT presentation.pdf
