Conversation with Michelle Nijhuis

This brief conversation accompanied web publication of Ms. Nijhuis’s article “Taking Wildness in Hand” (published in the May/June 2008 Orion magazine), which explored the idea of re-introducing species to new habitats as a result of the changing climate. Michelle Nijhuis’s writing has recently won a Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She lives in rural western Colorado.