About the Author

Lorraine Anderson is a freelance writer, editor, and teacher whose work focuses on encouraging a way of life in tune with nature. She is the editor of Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature and other works on nature. She lives in Corvallis, OR. Bruce Hodge is a fine art photographer who has exhibited at various venues around the San Francisco Bay Area, where he has lived since 1979. Hodge is a computer scientist and a leader in the production of software for the visual arts industry, and he is the founder of Carbon-Free Palo Alto. Robert Michael Pyle is author of 12 books and hundreds of papers, essays, stories and poems. He has a Ph.D. from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. His 1987 book Wintergreen describes the devastation caused by unrestrained logging in Washington's Willapa Hills, near his home.