Ben A. Minteer is an environmental ethicist and conservation scholar at Arizona State University in Tempe. His work grapples with two big questions: What obligations do we have toward wildlife and wilderness in a rapidly changing and increasingly human-shaped environment? And how can a better understanding of the American conservation tradition enhance our efforts to secure a biologically rich and equitable environmental future? Minteer's writing is grounded in the tradition of American Pragmatism, especially its moral, scientific, and civic traditions. He holds the Arizona Zoological Society Endowed Chair at ASU, a position originally established by the Maytag family at the time it made possible the founding of the Phoenix Zoo.