Millennium Magazine_5th Ed

314 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine T hroughout his career, Dr. Frank W Maurer Jr. has remained dedicated to science, conservation and academia. He received a BA in biology from Antioch College in 1964 and PhD in vertebrate zoology and ecology from Cornell University in 1968. Dr. Maurer has served as the founding executive director and president of the Quail Ridge Wilderness Conservancy (QWRC), a landtrust, since 1989 and of the Environmental Education Farm Foundation since 1993. Since 1978, Dr. Maurer has worked as an organic farmers market producer. Dr. Maurer was a research associate at the Swedish University of Agriculture and a lecturer in Lesotho, Africa. In 2015, Dr. Maurer launched a children’s program centered on studying fluorescent rocks and some invertebrates using long and shortwave UV light. He also spent seven years placing conservation easements on 1,760 acres of elk/pronghorn/ sage grouse land in Wyoming. He received the Recognition Award from the University of California Natural Reserve Systems in 1989. Since 2006, he has been on the Conservation Committee of Deer Canyon Preserve in New Mexico. Dr. Maurer learned the art of hand carving stones as a result of a trip he made to Scotland and Ireland, where he was introduced to the historical Picts of Scotland, and who left standing stones in the northern area of Scotland. He then traced his genealogy back to these very people and was thus inspired to create the “Tartan Stone,” each of which was donated to 35 state archives or libraries. In addition to these stones, Dr. Maurer has created the National Tartan Stone for Washington, D.C. He is now working on stones for four additional states. Some of the other outcomes of his artistic ability are the many hundreds of stones that he hand-carved for admirers and followers throughout this country, as well as other stones that were presented to other countries, including the Scottish Parliament. Dr. Maurer was the recipient of the Presidents Volunteer Service Award (Silver), the John Muir Award (Davis California Farmers Market), and is a life member of the Society for Conservation Biology, Society for the Study of Evolution and American Society of Mammologists. FRANK W MAURER JR., PHD LAND TRUST ADMINISTRATOR Quail Ridge Wilderness Conservancy, Environmental Education Farm Foundation Davis, CA SCIENCES, PHARMACEUTICALS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY