About Steve Jones and Great Blue Heron: Speaking, Writing, and Land Legacy Story development

About

Steve Jones (Great Blue Heron)

My Mission

Steve Jones (author, applied ecologist, and Nature enthusiast) operates under the moniker of Great Blue Heron.

Mission: Employ writing and speaking to educate, inspire, and enable readers and listeners to understand, appreciate, and enjoy Nature… and accept and practice Earth Stewardship.

Vision:

People of all ages will pay greater attention to and engage more regularly with Nature… and will accept and practice informed and responsible Earth Stewardship.
Great Blue Heron affiliates will see their relationship to our natural world with new eyes… and will understand more clearly their Earth home.

Steve (Great Blue Heron) encourages and seeks a better tomorrow through Nature-Inspired Living!

Philosophical Tenets

Reflections

“When one tugs at a single thing in Nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

— John Miur

Capitalize on the wisdom of the natural world with the lessons in Nature-Inspired Learning and Leading.

Lessons

Sharing Nature’s Wisdom

Great Blue Heron shares and applies Nature’s wisdom and inspiration in service to you and your organization. GBH’s CEO brings unique knowledge and experience to you, including:

Doctoral degree in Applied Ecology
Former direct responsibility for 500 square miles of intensively managed industrial forestland in Alabama
Hundreds of articles in journals and general audience outlets on forest management and forestry
Two books on Nature-Inspired Learning and Leading; two others in preparation
President of four universities
Secured >$250 million in gifts, grants, and donations for university research, demonstration, and instruction
Led the governing board of the University of the Arctic, a consortium of 110 colleges and universities across the circumpolar north
Leading GBH, a firm dedicated to you and your organization. Great Blue Heron’s product is sharing and applying Nature’s wisdom and inspiration in service to you and your organization through specialized, focused, and informed writing and speaking.