Kenyon Fields

At Wildlands Network: Kenyon Fields is Strategy Director for Wildlands Network, focusing his efforts on a long-term comprehensive strategy for the Western Wildlway Network Initiative. The Initiative is an international effort to employ the power of networks of people to protect a network of conservation lands from northern Alaska’s Brooks Range down through the Canadian and American Rockies into northern Mexico.

Kenyon conducts regional analyses of threats to wildlands and wildlife and seeks opportunities to protect places through coordinated conservation partnerships.
 
Off the Clock: When he’s not backpacking, paddling, or extreme sledding, Kenyon can usually be found lassoing songbirds with dental floss or riding bareback in caribou races.   

Background: Prior to joining the Wildlands Network, Fields worked with the U.S. Forest Service in Alaska and as Executive Director of Sitka Conservation Society, which advocated for new wilderness and stopped timber sales on the Tongass National Forest. Fields completed his undergraduate degree in natural history and ethnography of the Northwest coast from Western Washington University, with additional field studies in Montana, BC, and Alaska.  He received two graduate degrees, from Antioch Seattle and Schumacher Institute in England, in systems dynamics applied to ecology and with an emphasis on patterns in natural systems.