e-mail: ww@oregonwild.org
phone: call main office for contact 503.283.6343

With a degree in wildlife management and biology, this former biology teacher worked for Oregon Wild in its earliest days, laboring for years, sometimes without pay, to help get it running. Over time, he’s been a volunteer, a member of the board of directors, a staffer (starting in 1981) with changing titles and duties, and an invaluable resource of organizational memory and conservation expertise.

He is Wildlands Interpreter Wendell Wood, and he has worked on a variety of Oregon Wild projects, including Klamath Basin issues, roadless-area campaigns, and old-growth forest preservation. Although Wendell’s home base is in northern California, he is our expert at large, traveling through Oregon as needed to work on conservation projects. Wendell is also a skilled naturalist well known for leading fun and educational hikes for the public. His hikes help people identify what they’re seeing, be it wild mushrooms, native plants, or wildflowers. Wendell enjoys returning to his favorite areas each year to see treasured wildlife. “It’s like coming back and seeing your friends,” he says.

Wendell’s interests include natural history, research and identification of plants and animals, and hiking.