Environmental Journalist and Author

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Beavers

I’m the author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Chelsea Green Publishing), winner of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.

 
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Roads

My second book, Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, is out now from W.W. Norton & Co. The New York Times deemed it “fascinating and compassionate,” and the Wall Street Journal called it “well-paced and vivid.”

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Environmental Journalism

My writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Science, the Washington Post, the New York Times, National Geographic, Outside, High Country News, and many other publications, and has been anthologized in the Best American Science & Nature Writing.

 

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