Down the River Expedition Friend Rod Nash, Ph. D.

Roderick F. Nash, Ph. D.

Professor of History and the Environmental Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara
Education:
B.A. Harvard University
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin

Roderick Nash is considered America's foremost wilderness historian. He is regarded as a national leader in the field of environmental history and management and environmental education. Among his numerous books and over 150 essays, Professor Roderick Frazier Nash is best known for Wilderness and the American Mind, which has received many reprintings, revised editions, and foreign translations. Nash, a past Lindbergh Fellow, has served on the board of directors of the Yosemite Institute and as a member of the advisory committee to the U.S. National Park Service.