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Ron Arnold has been Executive Vice
President of the Center since 1984. Honored as the "Father of the Wise Use
Movement," Ron has gained wide recognition as an effective fighter for
individual liberties, property rights and limited government. His projects have
been covered by all major media and the magazines of every major environmental
group. His writings have been quoted by other authors in more than 100 books, he
has been profiled in various popular magazines such as People,
Playboy, and Outside. He has appeared as a character in several
adventure-fiction novels and was portrayed in Todd Jefferson Moore's one-man
play, In the Heart of the Wood.
Ron is a veteran journalist who has
turned in more than 300 assignments for dozens of trade magazines. His 8-part
series The Environmental Battle in Logging Management magazine earned the
American Business Press
Editorial Achievement Award for best magazine series of 1980. Ron wrote the
authorized biography of James Watt and his tenure as Secretary of the Interior, At the Eye of the Storm: James Watt and
the Environmentalists (1982). His 1983
investigative report for Reason magazine on EcoTerrorism remains the
classic in the field. His 1997 book EcoTerror: The Violent Agenda to Save
Nature was voted one of the 100 most important non-fiction books of the 20th
Century in a Random House/Modern Library reader poll completed in late 1999. His
1999 book Undue Influence spurred a congressional subcommittee hearing on
abuses in the environmental movement. Ron is the author of 7 books, has edited 8 others,
and founded The Free Enterprise Press in 1987 to create an outlet for important
free enterprise authors.
Ron is listed in Who's Who in America.
He is the owner of a consulting firm, Northwoods Studio. Ron resides with his
wife Janet in Bellevue, Washington. They have three married daughters.
Stories about Ron may be found by following
these links:
Ron is author of:
Ecology Wars
James Watt and the Environmentalists
The Grand Prairie Years (historical novel)
Trashing the Economy
Politically Correct Environment
EcoTerror
Undue Influence
Ron Arnold, Executive Vice President, may be reached at
ron@cdfe.org
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