Michelle Nijhuis is the author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction, a history of the modern conservation movement. A longtime contributing editor of High Country News and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, her writing about science and the environment has also appeared in National Geographic, the Atlantic, and the New York Times Magazine. After 15 years off the electrical grid in rural Colorado, she and her family now live in White Salmon, Washington, in the Columbia Gorge.
