Ron Arnold's Personal Profile  Ron Arnold has been Executive Vice President of the Center since 1984. Honored as the "Father of the Wise Use Movement," Ron has gained wide recognition as an effective fighter for individual liberties, property rights and limited government. His projects have been covered by all major media and the magazines of every major environmental group. His writings have been quoted by other authors in more than 100 books, he has been profiled in various popular magazines such as People, Playboy, and Outside. He has appeared as a character in several adventure-fiction novels and was portrayed in Todd Jefferson Moore's one-man play, In the Heart of the Wood. Ron is a veteran journalist who has turned in more than 300 assignments for dozens of trade magazines. His 8-part series The Environmental Battle in Logging Management magazine earned the American Business Press Editorial Achievement Award for best magazine series of 1980. Ron wrote the authorized biography of James Watt and his tenure as Secretary of the Interior, At the Eye of the Storm: James Watt and the Environmentalists (1982). His 1983 investigative report for Reason magazine on EcoTerrorism remains the classic in the field. His 1997 book EcoTerror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature was voted one of the 100 most important non-fiction books of the 20th Century in a Random House/Modern Library reader poll completed in late 1999. His 1999 book Undue Influence spurred a congressional subcommittee hearing on abuses in the environmental movement. Ron is the author of 8 books, has edited 9 others, and founded The Free Enterprise Press in 1987 to create an outlet for important free enterprise authors.Ron is listed in Who's Who in America. He is the owner of a consulting firm, Northwoods Studio. Ron resides with his wife Janet in Bellevue, Washington. They have three married daughters. Stories about Ron may be found by following these links:
Ecology Wars James Watt and the Environmentalists The Grand Prairie Years (historical novel) Trashing the Economy Politically Correct Environment EcoTerror Undue Influence Freezing in the Dark Ron Arnold, Executive Vice President, may be reached at ron@cdfe.org |
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