Monica Bond, MS, is a wildlife biologist and biodiversity activist with 15 years of experience in ecology of wildlife in fire-affected forests. Her extensive research on the use of severely burned forest by Spotted Owls and Black-backed Woodpeckers has led to the protection of much of this habitat type from post-fire logging. As an advocate she has monitored public and private lands management activities to ensure adequate protection for imperiled species. She also studied space use by small mammals and Burrowing Owls in western grasslands, and demography of northern elephant seals and Hawaiian monk seals.