William Wallace Covington

Who is William Wallace Covington?

William Wallace Covington is a Regent's Professor of Forest Ecology at Northern Arizona University, and the Director of the Ecological Restoration Institute at NAU. Covington is known for his research and outreach activities on forest health and ecological restoration, drawn from his research since 1970 on the Ponderosa pine, aspen, dry mixed conifer, and pinyon-juniper forests and woodlands of the West, particularly those that surround Flagstaff, Arizona. He has been called perhaps the nation's most visible forest scientist, by Science magazine.