Bob Lee retired in 2007 after 30 years of teaching and research as a Professor of Forestry at the University of Washington. After graduating in forestry from the University of California at Berkeley, with summer employment for the U.S. Forest Service, he worked for a small forest company in the Redwood Region. From there he attended Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies to study forest ecology, philosophy, and sociology. He completed his doctoral studies in Wildland Resource Science back at Berkeley, specializing in sociology, anthropology, and systems ecology, and worked as a research sociologist for the National Park Service to support his dissertation research. During a career studying forest-based communities, research took him to Europe, Asia, Mexico, and Canada, and he was invited to testify at President Clinton’s Forest Conference in 1993.