This ongoing collection explores who northwest naturalists are, how they attend to the natural world and why that matters. Above all, it celebrates a rooted community of people who seek greater understanding of the place where they live. The naturalists we profile are photographers, professors and poets, activists, lepidopterists and fathers. They practice natural history on ambulance calls, weekend trips and rare plant surveys. It is this combination of voices that ultimately defines what a naturalist is, and as the biosphere and humanity itself face destabilization, we must broaden that definition to include us all.

Interviews with Robert Michael Pyle, Libby Mills, Tim McNulty, Pat Buller, Paula Ogden Muse, Dana Visalli, and others, edited by Sara Joy Steele.

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© 2006 Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele