Poems and Thoughts    by Frank Maurer

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Frank Maurer Author Bio Page for Books. Frank W Maurer, jr. was born, 25 August 1941 in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Newton (North) High School with the National Honor Society award. Frank spent five years at Antioch College in the work- study program, graduating with a BS degree. Some of his study-jobs were at the Pioneer Forest in Missouri, the Boston Museum of Science, and as a government employee, working with the last US whaling stations in California. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and, upon graduation, immediately became biology chair at Robert College in Istanbul, Turkiye. After five years, he joined the biology staff of the University of Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland in Lesotho, Africa, and then after three more years, took a research job at the University in Uppsala, Sweden. After ten years abroad, he started the Environmental Education Farm Foundation, Davis, California, and ten years later, founded the Quail Ridge Wilderness Conservancy, a land trust, saving 2000 acres in Napa, California, and joined it to the University of California Natural Reserve System. He also spearheaded the preservation of two, 3000 acre parcels in Wyoming, giving shelter to wildlife and specifically the Greater Sage-Grouse. Frank wrote the legislation for the Official State California Native Grass. He went on to also pass the State Grass for Wyoming. Maurer became a stone carver, because of his Pictish ancestry, using only a hand-held chisel, and donated stones to several countries, including Ireland and Scotland, as well as Cornwall and Wales, districts. His stones are in 37 state archives throughout the US, named the State Tartan Stone. Frank created his 'Poems and Thoughts' in 2000 and to date has written over 700 prose-poem works, reflecting his very varied life experiences. This Volume I, My Youth, is the first of several pending volumes to be compiled. Maurer is now 84-years-old and has a sharp mind and uncanny memory. He is listed in Who's Who in America and in Who's Who in the World. Frank lost his brilliant wife, Prof. Lenora A. Timm, in November 2016, after 31 years of a symbiotic, productive marriage, and has two surviving sons, (Christine's and his offspring), Pierre (52) (his wife, Julia) and Basil (46) and grandchildren, Jayden and Rowan, Frank Maurer Dec 24, 2025 14:17 Hours.