Geoff Kelley grew up in the canyon country of southern California, where he developed a lifelong love for the outdoors. He worked as a wildlife technician for various federal, state, and private resource management institutions before returning to school to pursue graduate studies. His master’s research took him to southern Mexico, where he examined the impacts of globalization on campesino communities and their natural environment. He later earned a PhD, focusing on access to, use of, and conservation of natural resources across the Big Bend region of the US–Mexico frontier.
