About R. Newell Searle

R. Newell Searle is an  author, historian, and advocate and has held professional and executive level positions conducting public affairs in corporate, government, and nonprofit organizations. He is the author of Saving Quetico-Superior, A Land Set Apart, received the Frederick Weyerhaeuser Book Award. His articles about Minnesota’s natural and human history have appeared in Living Wilderness, Nature Conservancy News, Voices for the Land, Minnesota History, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune among others. He earned degrees in history from Macalester College and the University of Minnesota; he is bilingual and divides his time between Minnetonka and Mexico.