Douglas Bevington
Forest Program Director

As director for the Forest Program, Douglas Bevington oversees Environment Now's programs to protect California's forests and end commercial logging on our public lands.

Dr. Bevington previously worked as the Regional Organizer for the John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute and as the Biodiversity Program Assistant for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He has also been active with the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, Center for Biological Diversity, Endangered Species Coalition, and Sierra Club, and serves on the Board of Advisors of the Student Environmental Center.

Dr. Bevington holds a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His dissertation, titled "The Rebirth of Environmentalism: Grassroots Activism and the New Conservation Movement, 1989-2004," examined the influence of grassroots forest and biodiversity protection groups on environmental policy implementation in the United States. While at the University of California, Dr. Bevington taught courses on social movement studies.

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