Michael P. Nelson holds a joint appointment as a professor of environmental ethics and philosophy in the Lyman Briggs College, the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, and the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University. He is the author of many scholarly articles as well as co-author or co-editor of three books in and around the area of environmental philosophy (The Great New Wilderness Debate [1998], The Wilderness Debate Rages On: Continuing the Great New Wilderness Debate [2008], and American Indian Environmental Ethics: An Ojibwa Case Study [2004]). Nelson is also resident philosopher of the Isle Royale wolf/moose project, the longest continuous study of a predator/prey system in the world. He is the co-creator and co-director of the Conservation Ethics Group, an environmental ethics and problem solving consultancy group. He currently lives with his three dogs, three cats, and one wife on a chunk of land in rural Bell Oak, Michigan.
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