Douglas Towne

A Denver native, Douglas Towne gravitated toward Environmental Studies at the University of Denver because of his love of the outdoors. While studying the relationship between soil and farmland retirement for his master’s thesis at the University of Arizona, he read “Meeting the Expectations of the Land: Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship,” which led him to The Land Institute in 1988. He was further intrigued by the prairie through his mother’s stories of growing up on a ranch in Nebraska’s Sand Hills. Doug has managed Arizona’s Ambient Groundwater Program for two decades and is a widely published author in the fields of science and history. While an intern at The Land Institute, Doug’s most significant accomplishment was writing about biodynamic agriculture, which he learned about while traveling in Australia.

My most perennial trait is Going the Extra Mile – always leads to fresh insight!

1988 Intern at The Land Institute