Spring Creek Project

Deirdre Hyde (Visiting Artist) is a British painter who graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Reading. She has lived in Costa Rica for the past 40 years, where she has collaborated in conservation efforts throughout the region. Her work ranges from illustrations and large-format canvases to educational materials for National Parks, and she explores themes such as climate change and human threats to natural spaces. Her work can be found in private and public collections throughout the world, including at the Smithsonian Institution, National Geographic Society, Frank Gehry’s Biomuseo in Panama, and Canning House. In fall of 2019, she is exhibiting her work at PreCOP25, an international meeting preceding the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. She has also been an artist-in-residence at Abruzzo National Park in Italy, Schumacher College in the UK, and Wilson Botanical Garden in Costa Rica.

Minal Hajratwala (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is a poet, prose writer, and writing coach. She is the author of the award-winning epic Leaving India: My Family’s Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents, called "incomparable" by Alice Walker and "searingly honest" by the Washington Post. The book won the PEN USA Award and the Lambda Literary Award, among other honors. She is also the author of Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment (poetry) and the Moon Fiji travel guidebook. She edited Out! Stories from the New Queer India (2013) and co-founded The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective. She graduated from Stanford, was a fellow at Columbia, was a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar, and attended the Clarion West workshop in 2019. Her Granta essay “A Brief Guide to Gender in India” was named one of the 10 best pieces of writing on the web for 2015.

Gavin Van Horn (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) works at the Center for Humans and Nature as the Director of Cultures of Conservation. He is the co-editor of City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and Wildness: Relations of People and Place (University of Chicago Press, 2017). He edits, curates, and writes for the City Creatures Blog and has published works of creative nonfiction in Orion, Emergence, Undark, Belt magazine, Red Savina Review, and Zoomorphic, among others. His most recent book is The Way of Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds (University of Chicago Press, 2018).

Matthew Battles (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is a non-fiction writer and the associate director of Harvard's metaLAB. His writing and research explores the long-term elements of cultural memory in the form of libraries and archives, and, more recently, the natural world. His most recent book, Tree, explores human relations with arborescent forms of life—not only as sources of shelter, fuel, and food, but as objects of aesthetic interest, metaphors, and companions of uncanny otherness. His writing has appeared in Orion, The American Scholar, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and The New York Times.

Ann T. Rosenthal (Visiting Artist) brings to communities over 30 years’ experience as an artist, educator, and writer. Her work examines the intersections of nature and culture through timely issues, including climate change, toxins in water and food, biodiversity, and biophilia. Ann’s essays on eco/community art have been published in several journals and anthologies, including “Redefining Beauty in the Context of Sustainability” in Regenerative Infrastructures (New York: Prestel, 2013). Her work has been exhibited across the U.S., in Germany and Japan. In 2018, she participated in several group exhibitions and was featured in a solo show at the School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In May, she co-chaired with Judith Li and presented her work on the panel “At the Confluence of Freshwater Science and the Humanities” for the Society for Freshwater Science annual conference in Detroit. Ann teaches art and art history courses through Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Pittsburgh. In 2016, Ann initiated LUNA (Learning Urban Nature through Art), a community-focused art and nature program, partnering with public schools and environmental and community organizations. She received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999.

Callum Angus (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is a trans and queer writer who has received fellowships from Lambda Literary and Signal Fire Foundation for the Arts. His work has appeared in Catapult, The Common, The Offing, BuzzFeed, The Normal School, them, The Millions, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and has taught writing at both UMass Amherst and Smith College. Read more of his work on his website.

Holly J. Hughes (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) traded in Minnesota corn fields for open waters, spending her early adult years gillnetting for salmon and running tenders in Alaska, returning later to skipper the 65-foot schooner Crusader and work as a naturalist on ships. For the last two decades, she taught interdisciplinary writing courses that focused on natural history and sustainability at a community college in Washington and was a member of the steering committee for the Curriculum for the Bioregion project through Evergreen State College. She’s the author of several books of poetry, including Sailing by Ravens (University of Alaska Press, 2014) and Passings (Expedition Press, 2016), and she co-authored The Pen and The Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World (Skinner House Press, 2012). She also co-edited Contemplative Approaches to Sustainability in Higher Education: Theory & Practice (Routledge, 2016). She currently divides her time between the Chimacum creek watershed and the Indianola beach, consulting as a writing coach and teaching writing and mindfulness workshops throughout the Northwest. View her work online.

Adelheid Fischer (Visiting Writer) is the co-director of InnovationSpace, a sustainable product-development program at Arizona State University. She also leads ASU's biomimicry initiative, which introduces students to the use of biology as a means of sustainable innovation in design, business, and engineering. She serves as assistant director of ASU’s Biomimicry Center. As a writer, Fischer focuses on natural history, ecology, and environmental history. She has written for many publications, including Orion, Conservation, Places, and Arizona Highways. She is the co-author of Valley of Grass: Tallgrass Prairie and Parkland of the Red River Region, winner of a Minnesota Book Award for Nature Writing. With Minnesota ecologist Chel Anderson, she has co-authored North Shore: A Natural History of Minnesota’s Superior Coast. In 2014 she received the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award.

Tom Montgomery Fate (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is the author of five books of nonfiction, including Beyond the White Noise, a collection of essays, Steady and Trembling, a spiritual memoir, and Cabin Fever, a nature memoir. His essays have appeared in The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, Orion, Iowa Review, Sojourners, and many other journals and anthologies, and his writings regularly air on National Public Radio and Chicago Public Radio. A graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and of Chicago Theological Seminary, he is currently a professor of English at College of DuPage, in suburban Chicago, where he also lives.

Courtney Carlson (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is a writer and Assistant Professor at the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources. She has studied at both Boston College and Mansfield College, and currently resides in Laramie, Wyoming. 

Nancy Lord (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is passionate about place, history, and the natural environment. From her many years of commercial salmon fishing and, later, work as a naturalist and historian on adventure cruise ships, she’s explored in both fiction and nonfiction the myths and realities of life in the north. Among her published books are three collections of short stories and five works of literary nonfiction, including the memoir Fishcamp, the cautionary Beluga Days, and the front-lines story of climate change, Early Warming. She most recently (2016) edited the anthology Made of Salmon: Alaska Stories From The Salmon Project.  Her novel, The Pteropod Gang, is forthcoming (2017) from Graphic Arts/Alaska Northwest Books. View her selected work on her website.

Ellen Waterston (Blue River Fellow) is a poet, author and literary arts advocate. She is the author of Vía Láctea: A Woman of a Certain Age Walks the Camino, Where the Crooked River Rises, and a memoir, Then There Was No Mountain, which was rated one of the top 10 books of 2003 by the Oregonian and a WILLA finalist. After 11 years as founder/director of The Nature of Words, a literary arts nonprofit, she passed the baton in 2012 to focus on the Writing Ranch, the Waterston Desert Writing Prize, and her own writing. Founded by Waterston in 2000, the Writing Ranch offers writing workshops and retreats. The Waterston Desert Writing Prize, established in 2014, is awarded annually each June to nonfiction projects concerning deserts anywhere in the world. Waterston is completing a fourth collection of poetry, and is at work on nonfiction examining land use issues in the high desert.

Gretel Van Wieren (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University where her courses focus on religion, ethics, and the environment. She is author of the book Restored to Earth: Christianity, Environmental Ethics, and Ecological Restoration. Van Wieren is a participant in the Values Roundtable of the New Academy for Nature and Culture, an informal coalition of scholars who have come together to explore a new theory of values for environmental thinking.

Justin Ralls (Visiting Musician) is a composer, conductor, and writer, hailing from the Pacific Northwest, who believes in the transformative and communal power of music. Tree Ride, a piece for large orchestra inspired by conservationist John Muir, recently won the James Highsmith Composition Award, receiving its premiere by the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra in the Fall of 2013. In addition, Ralls’ works have been performed by a variety of orchestras, soloists, and ensembles both nationally and internationally. He has personally conducted his work on numerous national and international stages. Visit Justin online.

David Gessner (Blue River Fellow) is a writer, editor, and cartoonist. His books include All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West; Sick of Nature; and Return of the Osprey. Gessner has published essays in many magazines, including Outside Magazine and the New York Times Magazine, and he has won the John Burroughs Award for Best Nature Essay, a Pushcart Prize, and inclusion in Best American Nonrequired Reading. Visit David online.

John Bates (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is the author of seven books on the Northwoods and Upper Midwest, and a contributor to four others. He has worked as a state forest naturalist for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and owns Trails North, a naturalist guide service. He also conducts outdoor classes for Nicolet College, the University of Wisconsin Extension, and the North Lakeland Discovery Center. For twenty years he has written a biweekly column, "A Northwoods Almanac," for the Lakeland Times in Minocqua, Wisconsin. Visit John online. 

Erin Halcomb (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is the program manager of the Taft-Nicholson Center, which works to bridge the arts and humanities with the sciences at University of Utah. She has worked in fire suppression, forest restoration, and wildlife biology. But her simultaneous passion for writing, as a unique method for sharing the beauty and value of nature, brought her to the University of Utah. She recently graduated from the Environmental Humanities master's program. In the Centennial Valley, she shares her delight for birds and her desire to protect wide-open spaces.

Ian Boyden (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) works across multiple media including painting, sculpture, artist's books, photography, site-specific installations, and land art. His work is interdisciplinary, and he often collaborates with a variety of scientists, poets, composers, and other visual artists. His books and paintings are found in many public collections including Reed College, Stanford University, the Portland Art Museum, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Boyden is also a speaker, writer, and curator. He currently serves as the executive director of the San Juan Islands Museum of Art. Visit Ian online.

Frederick H. Swanson (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is the author of Where Roads Will Never Reach: Wilderness and Its Visionaries in the Northern Rockies (University of Utah Press, 2015) and The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg: Clearcutting and the Struggle for Sustainable Forestry in the Northern Rockies (University of Utah Press, 2011), among others. His books and articles deal with the history, use, and misuse of public lands during the twentieth century, with particular focus on wilderness areas, national parks, and national forests. An editor and publications designer for twenty-five years, he now writes full-time in the foothills of Utah’s Wasatch Range.

Bob Keefer (Visiting Artist) grew up in the woods of Alabama, Minnesota, and South Carolina before his family moved to the concrete expanses of Los Angeles when he was eight. As a photographer and artist, he may be trying to recapture the mystery of those childhood forests through a historic art form, hand-colored black and white photography, which combines the cool Modernist process of photography and the more personal art of painting. Along the way he studied history of religion at Harvard and spent three decades as a newspaper arts writer before retiring to spend more time photographing the Northwest. His work has been shown at galleries in Eugene, Corvallis, and Portland, and is in the Art About Agriculture Permanent Collection at Oregon State University's College of Agricultural Sciences. He was an artist in residence at Andrews Forest in 2014, and his works grace the cover and interior of the book Forest Under Story with writings from the Long-Term Ecological Reflections program.

Michael G. Smith (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is a very-early retired chemist whose poems are forthcoming or have been published in many literary journals. He has published three poetry books, No Small Things, The Dark is Different in Reverse, and The Dippers Do Their Part, co-authored with Laura Young from their residency at the Spring Creek Project’s Shotpouch Cabin. He conducts workshops on the intersections of poetry, science, mathematics and Nature, and lives in Santa Fe, NM. 

Charlotte Austin (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is an adventure writer, world traveler, and mountaineering specialist. She walks the walk when she talks the talk in her poems, short stories, articles, and vignettes. She is a certified and experienced Wilderness EMT, International Mountain Guide, and holds a Level 2 certification from the American Institute for Avalanche Education and Training. Widely published, she has contributed articles to many regional and national magazines. In 2013 she co-edited a writers anthology, The Better Bombshell: Writers and Artists Redefine the Female Role Model. Visit Charlotte online.   

Kristine Zeigler (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) has spent the past 16 years as a professional fundraiser finding financial resources to safeguard animals and nature. Her books include The Bark, The Peregrine, and Harvard’s Charles River Review. As Director of Philanthropy at The Nature Conservancy in California, Kristine works for the world’s largest environmental nonprofit and raises more than $30 million annually for land and water conservation globally. Visit Kristine online.

Andrew C. Gottlieb (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) writes book reviews, essays, fiction, interviews, memoir, and poetry. His work has appeared in many literary journals and online magazines, including the American Literary Review, Arts & Letters, Bellevue Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, Ecotone, Flyfish Journal, ISLE, Mississippi Review, Orion, Poets & Writers, Sierra Nevada Review, Sugar House Review, and Tampa Review. He’s the author of two chapbooks of poems, Flow Variations (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and Halflives (New Michigan Press, 2005). In 2010 he won an American Fiction Prize for his short story “Stickmen.” He has taught composition and short story writing at Iowa State University and at the University of Washington, where he received his MA and MFA. He’s currently on the editorial board for Terrain.org and was the reviews editor for five years. Gottlieb has been awarded grants from the Seattle Arts Commission and the Seattle-based Artist Trust Foundation, has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize, and has been writer-in-residence at six different, often wilderness, locations. He completed his first Andrews Forest Writing Residency in 2012 and visited again in 2014.

Leah Wilson (Long-Term Artist-in-Residence with Continuing Engagement) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Art Institute of Southern California. After earning an Master of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute, she moved to Nevada City in the Sierra Nevada foothills to pursue making art and teaching whitewater kayaking. In 2008, Wilson moved to Eugene, Oregon. A 2012 artist residency at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest introduced her to ecologists working on long-term studies in the forest. That experience, and her interactions with the scientists, relates to her current work. Wilson’s interaction with the forest and its associated ecologists led her to realize that science in general, and ecology in particular, seeks to identify patterns (and changes in patterns) over time. Often, in terms of process and product, the most evident element of her work is repetition, rhythm, and pattern related to water in general, and rivers and streams in particular. Leah is a founding member of Gray Space, a group of Oregon artists, based in the Corvallis, Eugene and Roseburg areas, that fosters creative strength, exchange and exploration. Gray Space explores how art influences place and place influences art. Leah Wilson’s artwork has been exhibited at galleries throughout the West Coast including the Hult Center Plaza in Eugene, Oregon, the Roger W. Rogers Gallery at Willamette University, Cascade Gallery at Portland Community College and Guardino Gallery in Portland, Oregon, the Arts Center in Corvallis, Oregon, and Julie Baker Fine Art in Nevada City, California. Her work is in the collections of Oregon State University, Umpqua Community College, Adobe Systems Inc., eBay, Inc., and other corporate and private collections.

Carla Wise (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is an environmental and science writer based in western Oregon. She has written on a variety of topics, including forest management, endangered species protection, agriculture, the local foods movement, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and biomimicry. Most of her writing currently focuses on agriculture and climate change. Wise has a Ph.D. in biology and has worked in natural resource policy, environmental consulting, and plant conservation research. Her writing has appeared in publications including The Oregonian, High Country News, The Huffington Post, and The Utne Reader. Visit Carla online.

Brenda Peterson (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) has a curiosity about and respect for nature that radiates through her 17 books, which range from her first memoir, Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals, chosen as a "Best Spiritual Book of 2001," to three novels, one of which, Duck and Cover, was chosen by New York Times as Notable Book of the Year. Her memoir, I Want To Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth, was selected by The Christian Science Monitor among the Top Ten Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010. Visit Brenda online. 

Todd Gilens (Visiting Artist) works in landscape and art, using writing, drawing and photography, and creating site-integrated projects for urban audiences. Developing around existing physical structures, the artworks become metaphors for broader themes such as sunlight and shade, handwriting, population dynamics or water systems. Todd has created projects for transit systems, botanical gardens, arts and conference centers, factories and wilderness areas among others. His work has been acknowledged through residencies, commissions and grants, including from Dumbarton Oaks Library, the National Forest Foundation, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Zellerbach, Warhol and Adobe Foundations. He holds a master’s degree in landscape architecture, teaches workshops, and designs private garden spaces. His website is www.toddgilens.com.

John Calderazzo (Visiting Writer) recently retired from 30 years of teaching creative nonfiction workshops at Colorado State University. Mentoring students, many of whom have become friends and fellow writers, has been one of the major joys of his life.  A former full time freelance writer, John has written three nonfiction books, a poetry chapbook, co-edited a nature anthology, and published essays, stories, and poems in venues such as Audubon, Orion, High Country News, Best American Nature Writing, and elsewhere.

Chris Norment (Visiting Scholar) is a professor of environmental science and biology at The College at Brockport, State University of New York. His book Return to Warden's Grove: Science, Desire and the Lives of Sparrows was nominated for the John Burroughs Medal. Norment earned his PhD in systematics and ecology from the University of Kansas. He has published extensively in ecology, avian breeding biology, grassland ecology, and the ecology of arctic and alpine environments.

Elizabeth Farnsworth (Visiting Scholar) is a senior research ecologist and scientific illustrator at the New England Wild Flower Society in Massachusetts, a research associate at Harvard Forest, and senior editor of Rhodora. She has completed hundreds of technical drawings for the award-winning web application, Go Botany. 

Aaron Ellison (Visiting Scholar) is the Senior Research Fellow in Ecology at the Harvard Forest, and an Adjunct Research Professor in the departments of Biology and Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific papers, dozens of book reviews and software reviews, and the books A Primer of Ecological Statistics (2004) and A Field Guide to the Ants of New England (2012). Visit Aaron online.

Gary Paul Nabhan (Blue River Fellow) is an internationally-celebrated nature writer, food and farming activist, and proponent of conserving the links between biodiversity and cultural diversity. He has been honored as a pioneer and creative force in the "local food movement" and seed saving community by Utne Reader, Mother Earth News, New York Times, Bioneers and Time magazine. Visit Gary online.

Jim Dodge (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is an American novelist and poet whose works combine themes of folklore and fantasy, set in a timeless present. He has published three novels, Fup, Not Fade Away and Stone Junction, and a collection of poetry and prose, Rain on the River.

Scott Russell Sanders (Blue River Fellow) is the author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including A Private History of Awe and A Conservationist Manifesto. The best of his essays from the past thirty years, plus nine new essays, are collected in Earth Works, published in 2012 by Indiana University Press. Among his honors are the Lannan Literary Award, the John Burroughs Essay Award, the Mark Twain Award, the Cecil Woods Award for Nonfiction, the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2012 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University, where he taught from 1971 to 2009. Visit Scott online. 

John Elder (Blue River Fellow) is known for his wonderful teaching and for his critical work on nature writing. He is the author most recently of Reading the Mountains of Home and has edited an encyclopedia, American Nature Writers, and (with Robert Finch) The Norton Anthology of Nature Writing. Elder lives in the Green Mountain village of Bristol with his wife Rita. He retired from Middlebury College after teaching English and Environmental Studies there for 37 years. While continuing to sugar in the nearby uplands of Starksboro, he has recently begun to write about the landscape and history of Ireland and about their affinities with those of Vermont.  

Elizabeth Bernays (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is a professor of Entomology at the University of Arizona. She is a biologist turned writer. After growing up in Australia, she received her PhD in 1970 at the University of London, England, and had a career as an academic entomologist (most recently as a professor in UC Berkeley and then University of Arizona) before obtaining an MFA at the University of Arizona where she is currently a Regents' Professor Emerita. Bernays has published more than 200 scientific papers and books and several popular biology articles, as well as a children's book. She has published poems and essays in a variety of literary journals. Visit Elizabeth online.

Laird Christensen (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) teaches writing and environmental studies at Prescott College, where he directs both the MS in Environmental Studies and the MS in Resilient and Sustainable Communities. His poems and essays have appeared in a variety of anthologies and magazines, including Wild Earth, Northwest Review, Whole Terrain, Northern Woodlands, and Utne Reader. His books include Teaching about Place and Teaching North American Environmental Literature.

Cristina Eisenberg (Visiting Scholar in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014) is an ecologist, research scientist, and writer whose books include The Carnivore Way and The Wolf’s Tooth. She serves as a lead scientist with Earthwatch Institute, as an instructor at Oregon State University and Yellowstone Association, a Smithsonian Research Associate, and on the editorial boards of the Ecological Society of America and Oregon State University Press.  Visit Cristina online.

Mary Evelyn Tucker (Blue River Fellow) is a Senior Lecturer and Senior Scholar at Yale University where she has appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies as well as the Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies. She is a co-founder and co-director with John Grim of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. Together they organized a series of ten conferences on World Religions and Ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Open Court Press, 2003), Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism (SUNY, 1989) and The Philosophy of Qi (Columbia University Press, 2007).

Christina Lovin (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is the author of What We Burned for Warmth (Finishing Line Press). Further publication credits include: Harvard Summer Review, Diner, Hunger Mountain,The Bark, Missing Mountains, Coal: An Anthology, and other journals and anthologies. She is the recipient of several artists' grants from the Kentucky Arts Council. Visit Christina online.

Kevin McKelvey (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is a poet and essayist who teaches writing, editing, and publishing at the University of Indianapolis. He has held residencies at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, and Isle Royale National Park. Part of his book-length sequence inspired by the Charles C. Deam Wilderness Area in Indiana were published in Dream Wilderness, a chapbook. The Indiana Arts Commission awarded him a grant to write poems about Indiana's Wabash River. He lives with his wife and two children in Indianapolis in a house built in 1890. Visit Kevin online. 

Vicki Graham (Andrews Forest Writing Resident) is the author of three collections of poetry, The Hummingbird's Tongue, The Tenderness of Bees, and Alembic, teaches English, Creative Writing, and Environmental Studies at the University of Minnesota, Morris. She divides her time between the Minnesota prairie and the southern coast of Oregon. Her poems and articles have appeared in Poetry, The Midwest Quarterly, ISLE, EarthLines Magazine, and Seneca Review, among others.

Scott Slovic (Blue River fellow) is professor of literature and environment and chair of the graduate program in literature and environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. The founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) from 1992 to 1995, he has edited ASLE's journal, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, since 1995. Scott is the author of nearly 100 articles on environmental literature and eco-criticism and is author, editor, or co-editor of thirteen books, including Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing (1992), Getting Over the Color Green (2001), The ISLE Reader (2003), What's Nature Worth? (2004), and Wild Nevada (2005), among others. Much of his work these days explores the connection between narrative language and the expression of environmental values.

Robert Michael Pyle (Blue River Fellow) was the first Andrews Forest Resident. An independent scholar, biologist, and writer, he dwells along a tributary of the Lower Columbia. His 24 books include Wintergreen, The Thunder Tree, Where Bigfoot Walks, Walking the High Ridge, and Mariposa Road, as well as the novel Magdalena Mountain, three collections of poetry, and a flight of butterfly books. He is an Honorary Life Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and the founder of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.