Allyson Jayne Miller

Allyson Jayne Miller is a compassionate conservation bioregionalist who started an educational foundation to protect Oregon's cougar and wolf populations. She grew up on her family's seven-thousand-acre cattle ranch, often making up songs about protecting the earth as she and her father rode over the open range on horseback. Miller paid her way through college by joining the military. After graduation, she worked for the timber industry and the Saudi oil cartel, but quickly grew disillusioned...See more

Allyson Jayne Miller is a compassionate conservation bioregionalist who started an educational foundation to protect Oregon's cougar and wolf populations. She grew up on her family's seven-thousand-acre cattle ranch, often making up songs about protecting the earth as she and her father rode over the open range on horseback. Miller paid her way through college by joining the military. After graduation, she worked for the timber industry and the Saudi oil cartel, but quickly grew disillusioned with corporate life, moved home, and began farming. Miller farms in Oregon's Willamette Valley. She inherited a farm owned by her family since 1915, and home to Oregon's indigenous for millennia. She has succeeded to change the homestead's ancient indigenous and early Euro-American farm history, into a permaculture holistic coexistence with nature. Her farm is a miniature version of the vast ranch of her childhood, and she carries in her soul the seeds of conservationist Aldo Leopold-planted by her father so many years ago. In addition to writing, she is a gifted artist who expresses her heart's feelings through her fingertips. See less