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Dave is responsible for overseeing the Society’s operations, including publishing The George Wright Forum and planning the Society's biennial conferences. A member of the GWS since 1985, Dave began working for the organization in 1990 and served as deputy executive director until being named executive director in 1998. A graduate of Grinnell College and the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources, he maintains an active research interest in the relationship between biological and cultural diversity, having co-founded the NGO Terralingua, which is devoted to that subject. Dave is the author of In Light of Our Differences: How Diversity in Nature and Culture Makes Us Human (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002) and co-edited (with Francis P. McManamon and Dwight T. Pitcaithley) The Antiquities Act: A Century of American Archaeology, Historic Preservation, and Nature Conservation (University of Arizona Press, 2006), and (with Allen D. Putney) The Full Value of Parks: From Economics to the Intangible (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and (with Graeme L. Worboys) Managing Mountain Protected Areas: Challenges and Responses for the 21st Century (Andromeda, 2004), among other books.