Robert Michael Pyle (born July 19, 1947 in Denver, Colorado) is a lepidopterist and a professional writer who has published twelve books and hundreds of papers, essays, stories and poems. He has a Ph.D. from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. His acclaimed 1987 book Wintergreen describing the devastation caused by unrestrained logging in Washington’s Willapa Hills near his adopted home was the winner of the 1987 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing. His recent books include Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide, Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land, and Sky Time in Gray’s River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place. He won the 2007 National Outdoor Book Award.

http://www.cwu.edu/~geograph/pyle.html

Magpie Song

Beauty and wonder are always in the eye of the beholder—but the beholder has to choose to behold

Overseer of Butterflies

Why not allow your alter ego its own occupation? The benefits, if not monetary, may be many.

Pulling the Plug

Can a successful TV-totaler make the ultimate sacrifice of electrons?

License to Kill

Killing other creatures, whether direct or by proxy, are an inevitable part of being among the living.

Condo Picchu

Are those cozy coastal clusters of condos signs of social cohesion or extreme maladaptive behavior?

Book Tourist

An author with an offering ventures out into the world of readers.

Evolving, Swiftly

Animals can adapt to modified habitats, but can humans adapt to save both the animals and themselves?

The Territory of Tint

What constitutes a Kodak moment may range widely among humans, even wider among Fidos and fritillaries.

Las Monarcas

The monarch is beauty, delicacy, fragility, and hope; a symbol of international conservation, and a reminder to live in a way that will preserve the tiny wonders of our world.