America Armed and Free, Etc.
One of the real privileges of having written a book is getting to talk to people I wouldn’t ordinarily have the occasion to meet, and...
Queen of Conservation and Knight of the Green Order
This morning Minneapolis Public Radio interviewed me and Kenyon Fields about The Spine of the Continent. Saving ‘The Spine of the...
Burn This
I spent the last few days at a “controlled burn” conference in Lake Tahoe, and it was pretty fascinating. First of all, fire is cool. Or...
Moving On
It’s fun to win awards, of course, but beyond that they do serve an important purpose. A few days ago I found out that with Emeline...
Take Note
The connections between art, science, and detective work are no more apparent than in the field journal. Through the mostly hand-written...
Red-Tails in Coffins
When I first visited the Bay Area more than 25 years ago, my future husband, a San Francisco native, took me around to the sacred spots....
The Elephant and Everything Else, in Room After Room After Room
Even though I have written a book about evolution, I confess to kneeling in awe at the concept. And indeed, having read literally...
Home on the Range
When I started researching The Spine of the Continent, there were a couple of topics I REALLY didn’t want to have to get into — one was...
Trophic Thunder
Here is an excerpt from The Spine of the Continent that provides some background to the trophic cascade idea. It picks up as a young...
Groping
In post-modern fashion, Michel Houllebecq’s novel The Map and the Territory includes a character named Michel Houllebecq. The character...
