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As the last book in the series was published in January , Donati is now on sabbatical. Barry Lopez is an essayist, author and naturalist who has lived in Oregon since He has traveled extensively in remote and populated parts of the world. Field Notes and Arctic Dreams were both honored with awards from the independent booksellers of the Northwest. His most recent book is Home Ground: Jim Lynch began writing as a reporter in an Alaskan fishing village.

As a journalist, he has received the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, among other national honors. Lynch lives with his wife and their daughter in Olympia, Washington. Richard Manning is an award-winning environmental author and journalist, with particular interest in the history and future of the American prairie, agriculture and poverty.

He is the author of eight books, including One Round River: The Curse of Gold and the Fight for the Big Blackfoot , which was honored in by the independent booksellers of the Northwest. His debut novel, Matterhorn , was written over the course of thirty years and has been widely hailed as the definitive Vietnam novel. Marlantes lives in rural Washington. She earned a teaching degree at the University of Alaska and taught in several rural schools, including one in the Tlingit village of Klukwan.

Brad Matsen is the author of Jacques Cousteau: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss , and many other books about the sea and its inhabitants. He was a creative producer for the television series The Shape of Life, and his articles on marine science and the environment have appeared in Mother Jones , Audubon , and Natural History , among other publications. Matsen lives on Vashon Island. She was a cloth doll designer before she became a writer. Matthews passed away in Olympia artist Nikki McClure is known for her painstakingly intricate and beautiful paper cuts. Armed with an X-acto knife, she cuts out her images from a single sheet of paper and creates a language that translates the complex poetry of motherhood, nature and activism into a simple and endearing picture.

She regularly produces her own posters, books, cards, T-shirts and a beloved yearly calendar as well as designs covers for countless records and books. McManus lives in Spokane and his wife, Darlene. They have four daughters, nine grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Deirdre McNamer grew up in small towns not far from the Canadian border. After working as a daily journalist for more than a decade, she studied at the University of Michigan as a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship.

Lydia Minatoya was born in Albany, New York in Her memoir, Talking to Monks in High Snow: Minatoya has a Ph.

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A textile business took Nicole Mones to China for the first time in As an individual she traded textiles with China for 18 years before she turned to writing. She is a member of the National Committee on U. A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier. His other books include Seattle and the Demons of Ambition: Moody and his wife, Anne, have three daughters and live on an island in the Puget Sound. Making Connections in a Disconnected World in Morgan lives with his wife, Barbara, an astronaut and teacher, and their two sons in McCall, Idaho.

He is currently a creative writing professor at Boise State University. Greg Mortenson was a humanitarian, a mountaineer and an author. Mortenson was the co-founder and director of the non-profit Central Asia Institute as well as founder of the educational charity, Pennies for Peace. As of , Mortenson had established or significantly supported schools in rural and often volatile regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Murphy was born in and was an attorney for most of his life. He retired from his law practice to write Half Interest in a Silver Dollar: The Saga of Charles E.

He lived in Kalispell, Montana until his death in Richard Nelson is a cultural anthropologist and creative nonfiction writer whose work focuses on human relationships to the natural world. Nelson has lived in Alaska since , where he has recorded the cultural traditions and intellectual achievements of Inupiaq Eskimo and Athabaskan Indian people. Nelson has also written more broadly about people and the environment, including The Island Within , honored in by the independent booksellers of the Northwest; Heart and Blood: He lives in Sitka, where he follows his passion for the outdoors and volunteers for a community conservation group.

Jack Nisbet is a teacher and naturalist whose book The Collector: He lives in Spokane. Born and raised in Minnesota, poet Sheryl Noethe now lives at the foot of Mt.

Jumbo in Missoula, Montana. She is the author of the short story collection The Necessary Grace to Fall , which was honored in by the independent booksellers of the Northwest, and the story collection People I Wanted to Be.

Both books received the Oregon Book Award. Jean Davies Okimoto is an author and playwright whose books and short stories have been translated into Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Korean, German and Hebrew. Jeanie began writing for adults when she and her husband Joe retired to Vashon Island in He lived on an island in Puget Sound and died in at the age of Her stories and poems have appeared in Ms. Magazine , Calyx , Women of Darkness and Fine Madness , among others, and she has written two nonfiction books.

She teaches fiction writing and composition at Shoreline Community College and also teaches fiction writing for the University of Washington Extension Program. Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Here, ideas and cultures meet and intermingle, and in that regard, I like to think of A Tale for the Time Being as being a particularly Pacific Northwest kind of book.

This success was followed by almost a book a year since , including Survivor , Invisible Monsters , Diary , Rant and Lullaby , which was honored in by the independent booksellers of the Northwest. He currently divides his time between two homes, one in Oregon and one in Washington, both of which he shares with his partner and their two dogs. First as a librarian, then as an author, reviewer, lecturer and radio and television personality, Nancy Pearl has spent her adult life championing the best books.

The former Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book, Pearl celebrates the written word by speaking at bookstores and libraries across the country and on her monthly television program Book Lust with Nancy Pearl on the Seattle Channel. In recognition of her books and efforts in support of books, booksellers, libraries and librarians, the independent booksellers of the Pacific Northwest honored her with a Lifetime Achievement Award in She lives in Seattle with her husband, Joe. Lucia Perillo published a collection of essays, a collection of stories and six books of poetry, including Luck is Luck , which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and Inseminating the Elephant , a Pulitzer finalist.

Perillo lived in Olympia. She died in Barbara Corrado Pope is the author of three historical novels set in lateth-century France. Pope has a Ph. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Pope now resides in Oregon. She is married and has one daughter. This novel is a difficult treasure. Prcic is a Sundance Screenwriting Labfellow. He lives in Portland with his wife. Cherie Priest is the author of more than a dozen novels, including six in her Clockwork Century Universe series. The first in the series, Boneshaker , won a award from the independent booksellers of the Northwest, was nominated for both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, and was a Locus Award finalist.

She lives in Seattle with her husband and a fat black cat. Prince-Hughes is also the author of Gorillas Among Us: She received her M. She is on the advisory board of ApeNet, a nonprofit organization. Robert Michael Pyle is the author of hundreds of papers, essays, stories and poems in many magazines and journals. Crossing the Dark Divide ; Chasing Monarchs: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place ; and Wintergreen: Pyle founded the Xerces Society for invertebrate conservation and later chaired its Monarch Project.

David Quammen is an award-winning science, nature and travel writer and author whose twelve books include The Song of the Dodo: His recent book, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic , about the science, history, and human impacts of emerging diseases, was short-listed for seven national and international awards.

He wrote a column, called Natural Acts, for Outside magazine for fifteen years. His book by the same name was honored in by the independent booksellers of the Northwest. Quammen lives in Bozeman, Montana. His books Bad Land , Passage to Juneau: Raban has lived in Seattle since She lives in Oregon with her husband, son and many animals.

The Rands picture books include the Salty Dog series. Rand also co-founded the long-running Graphic Studios and taught illustration at the University of Washington in Seattle before he died in at the age of For two decades, Relin focused on reporting about social issues and their effect on children, both in the United States, and around the world. His interviews with child soldiers including a profile of teenager Ishmael Beah, who would later write the bestseller A Long Way Gone have been included in Amnesty International reports.

His investigation into the way the INS abused children in its custody contributed to the reorganization of that agency. He died in In Search of a Lost Icon , which was honored by the independent booksellers of the Northwest in A native of Twin Lake, Michigan, he has an apartment in Brooklyn, New York, and a moldy fishing and hunting shack on an island in Alaska. A lifetime journalist beginning as a UCLA magazine staff member, JoAnn Roe writes features for magazines and newspapers worldwide on topics that range from western cowboys to city profiles. Roe has published 16 books, most recently The San Juan Islands: Into the 21st Century from Caxton Press.

Abbe Rolnick grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland. Her first major cultural jolt occurred at age 15 when her family moved to Miami Beach, Florida. In order to find perspective, she climbed the only non-palm tree at her condo-complex and wrote what she observed. Here history came alive with her exposure to the Cuban culture. Here she blends stories from island life with characters in Skagit Valley.

Presently she resides with her husband on twenty acres in Skagit Valley, Washington. Joanna Rose is the author of the award-winning novel Little Miss Strange , which was honored by the independent booksellers of the Pacific Northwest in She is also known to readers of The Oregonian as a regular reviewer on the books page. She and her teaching partner Stevan Allred host the regular Pinewood Table prose critique group, and she teaches in schools in Oregon and Washington. A Romance of Souls , which won an award from the independent booksellers of the Northwest in He lives with his wife, Lisa, a rare-book dealer, in Seattle.

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An Asahel Curtis Portfolio was honored by the independent booksellers of the Northwest in He died in at the age of Savage was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Migael Scherer is the author of four books and numerous essays that range from the literary to the practical. Her first book, Still Loved by the Sun: An experienced mariner, Scherer wrote the first comprehensive cruising guide to the Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands.

Scherer and her husband lived aboard a sailboat for more than thirty-five years, cruising the Pacific Northwest, Southeast Alaska and the 1,mile Inside Passage.

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Gift of the Ancestors, Gift of the Earth , which is based on a study of the distinctive baskets of the region and was honored by the independent booksellers of the Northwest in She lives in Mount Hood. Carlos Schwantes is the St. He holds a doctorate in American History from the University of Michigan. In total he has authored or edited fifteen books about various facets of the American West and transportation, including The Pacific Northwest: He is an avid landscape photographer and teaches at the University of Missouri-St.

Barbara Scot, a public school teacher for twenty-five years, began to write after a tour with the Peace Corps in Nepal in She has published five books: An avid fan of the outdoors, she has spent much of her life climbing mountains, backpacking, running, and bird watching. She and her husband live in a houseboat on the Willamette River. Lynda Sexson is Professor of Humanities at Montana State University in Bozeman and the co-director of Corona Productions, a series of projects and events promoting interdisciplinary events and reflections. Among her awards, honors and affiliations, Sexson received Humanities Montana grants for the planning and production of My Book and Heart Shall Never Part, a film she wrote and directed in Revital Shiri-Horowitz was born and raised in Israel.

She immigrated to the United States after her first son was born. Shiri-Horowitz has written two novels. Her second book, Hope to See You Soon , speaks about immigrants, always divided between two homelands. She lives in the Seattle area. Born in Brooklyn, he has been an Oregonian since He and his wife, Beverly, lived in a cedar yurt in rural Amity before moving back to Portland, where they currently live. He wrote Reading Mayhem: Diane Smith is a writer specializing in science and the environment.

Her first novel, Letters from Yellowstone , was honored with a award from the independent booksellers of the Northwest and was the One Book Montana book of The novel uses letters to tell the story of the lone woman on a botanical research expedition to Yellowstone National Park in Smith has lived most of her adult life in Montana, and in her free time, she visits national parks, volunteers on archaeological and paleontological digs, explores back roads and tries to learn all she can about the natural history of the West.

Roland Smith was born and raised in Portland, where he worked at a zoo until becoming a full-time writer. My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe , which was honored by the independent booksellers of the Northwest in Smith lives on a small farm south of Portland with his wife, Marie. Prose, Poetry and Translations ; No Nature: He lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and has taught at the University of California, Davis since Toby Sonneman is the author of Lemon: Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon.

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There are six extant subspecies of golden eagle that differ slightly in size and plumage. Individuals of any subspecies are somewhat variable and the differences between subspecies are clinal , especially in terms of body size. Other than these characteristics, there is little variation across the range of the species. Aquila chrysaetos chrysaetos including A. The larger Middle Pleistocene golden eagles of France and possibly elsewhere are referred to a paleosubspecies Aquila chrysaetos bonifacti , and the huge specimens of the Late Pleistocene of Liko Cave Crete have been named Aquila chrysaetos simurgh Weesie, Golden eagles are fairly adaptable in habitat but often reside in areas with a few shared ecological characteristics.

They are best suited to hunting in open or semi-open areas and search them out year-around. Native vegetation seems to be attractive to them and they typically avoid developed areas of any type from urban to agricultural as well as heavily forested regions. In desolate areas e. However, they are not solely tied to high elevations and can breed in lowlands if the local habitats are suitable. Below are more detailed description of habitats occupied by golden eagles in both continents where they occur. In the Arctic fringe of the great continent, golden eagles occur along the edge of the tundra and the taiga from the Kola peninsula to Anadyr in eastern Siberia , nesting in forests and hunting over nearby arctic heathland.

Typical vegetation is stunted, fragmented larch woodland merging into low birch - willow scrub and various heathland. In the rocky, wet, windy maritime countries of the British Isles and western Scandinavia , the golden eagle is a mountain-dwelling bird. These areas include upland grasslands , blanket bog and sub-Arctic heaths but also fragmented woodland and woodland edge , including boreal forests.

In Western Europe, golden eagle habitat is dominated by open, rough grassland, heath and bogs, in places enlivened by rocky ridges, spurs, crags , scree , slopes and grand plateaux. In Sweden , Finland , the Baltic States , Belarus and almost the entire distribution in Russia all the way to the Pacific Ocean , golden eagles occur sparsely in lowland taiga forest. These areas are dominated by stands of evergreens such as pine , larch and spruce , occasionally supplemented by birch and alder stands in southern Scandinavia and the Baltic States.

This is largely marginal country for golden eagles and they occur where tree cover is thin and abuts open habitat. Golden eagle taiga habitat usually consists of extensive peatland formations caused by poorly drained soils. In central Europe, golden eagles today occur almost exclusively in the grand mountain ranges, such as Pyrenees , Alps , Carpathians and the Caucasus.

Here, the species nests near the tree line and hunt subalpine and alpine pastures , grassland and heath above. Golden eagles also occur in moderately mountainous habitat along the Mediterranean Sea , from Iberia and the Atlas Mountains in Morocco , to Greece , Turkey and Kurdistan. This area is characterized by low mountains, Mediterranean maquis vegetation and sub-temperate open woodland in various stages of degradation.

The local pine - oak vegetation, with a huge variety of Sclerophyllous shrubs are well-adapted to prolonged summer draughts. From Kurdistan and the southern Caspian Sea to the foothills of the Hindu Kush Mountains in Afghanistan , the typical golden eagle habitat is temperate desert-like mountain ranges surrounded by steppe landscapes interspersed with forest. Here the climate is colder and more continental than around the Mediterranean.

Golden eagles occupy the alpine ranges from the Altai Mountains and the Pamir Mountains to Tibet , in the great Himalayan massif , and northwestern China , where they occupy the Tien Shan range.

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In Tibet, golden eagles inhabit high ridges and passes in the Lhasa River watershed , where it regularly joins groups of soaring Himalayan vultures Gyps himalayensis. The golden eagle occurs in mountains from the Adrar Plateau in Mauritania to northern Yemen and Oman where the desert habitat is largely bereft of vegetation but offers many rocky plateaus to support both the eagles and their prey.

In Israel , their habitat is mainly rocky slopes and wide wadi areas, chiefly in desert and to a lesser extent in semi-desert and Mediterranean climates, extending to open areas. In Ethiopia's Bale Mountains , where the vegetation is more lush and the climate is clearly less arid than in Northeastern Africa, the golden eagle occupies verdant mountains. The ecozones occupied by golden eagles are roughly concurrent with those of Eurasia. In western and northern Alaska and northern Canada to the Ungava Peninsula in Quebec , the eagles occupy the Arctic fringe of North America the species does not range into the true high Arctic tundra , where open canopy gives way to dwarf-shrub heathland with cottongrass and tussock tundra.

In land-locked areas of the sub-Arctic, golden eagles are by far the largest raptor.

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From the Alaska Range to Washington and Oregon , it is often found in high mountains above the tree line or on bluffs and cliffs along river valleys below the tree line. In the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in the United States are plains and prairies where golden eagles are widespread, especially where there's a low human presence.

Here, grassland on low rolling hills and flat plains are typical, interrupted only by cottonwood stands around river valleys and wetlands where the eagles may build their nests. In this habitat, trees are generally absent other than junipers with vegetation being dominated by sagebrush Artemisia and other low shrub species. Although the vegetation varies a bit more, similar habitat is occupied by golden eagles in Mexico.

The golden eagles here often nest in chaparral and oak woodland, oak savanna and grassland amongst low rolling hill typified by diverse vegetation. Until , a pair of golden eagles were still known to nest in Maine but they are now believed to be absent as a breeding bird from the Eastern United States.

Though they do regularly nest in the marsh-like peatland of the boreal forest, golden eagles are not generally associated with wetlands and, in fact, they can be found near some of the most arid spots on earth. In the wintering population of Eastern United States, however, they are often associated with steep river valleys, reservoirs, and marshes in inland areas as well as estuarine marshlands, barrier islands, managed wetlands, sounds, and mouths of major river systems in coastal areas.

These wetlands are attractive due to a dominance of open vegetation, large concentrations of prey, and the general absence of human disturbance. Golden eagles usually hunt during daylight hours, but were recorded hunting from one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset during the breeding season in southwestern Idaho. Despite the dramatic ways in which they attain food and interact with raptors of their own and other species, the daily life of golden eagles is often rather uneventful.

Although usually highly solitary outside of the bond between breeding pairs, exceptionally cold weather in winter may cause eagles to put their usual guard down and perch together. Most populations of golden eagles are sedentary, but the species is actually a partial migrant. Golden eagles are very hardy species, being well adapted to cold climates, however they cannot abide declining available food sources in the northern stretches of their range.

Further east, conditions are too harsh for even wintering territorial adults. The flat, relatively open landscapes in these regions hold relatively few resident breeding golden eagles. At Mount Lorette in Alberta , approximately 4, golden eagles may pass during the fall, the largest recorded migration of golden eagles on earth. Adults who bred in northeastern Hudson Bay area of Canada reached their wintering grounds, which range from central Michigan to southern Pennsylvania to northeastern Alabama , in 26 to 40 days, with arrival dates from November to early December.

In southwestern Canada, they leave their wintering grounds by 6 April to 8 May the mean being 21 April ; in southwestern Idaho, wintering birds leave from 20 March to 13 April mean of 29 March ; and in the Southwestern United States , wintering birds may depart by early March. Territoriality is believed to be the primary cause of interactions and confrontations between non-paired golden eagles. Golden eagles maintain some of the largest known home ranges or territories of any bird species but there is much variation of home range size across the range, possibly dictated by food abundance and habitat preference.

The invader often responds by rolling over and presenting talons to the aggressor. Rarely, the two eagles will lock talons and tumble through the air; sometimes fall several revolutions and in some cases even tumble to the ground before releasing their grip. They then often engage in a similar posture with wings spread wide and oriented toward the threat; sometimes rocking back on tail and even flopping over onto the back with talons extended upward as defense. Such behavior may be accompanied by wing slap against the threatening intruder. Golden eagles usually mate for life.

A breeding pair is formed in a courtship display. This courtship includes undulating displays by both in the pair, with the male bird picking up a piece of rock or a small stick, and dropping it only to enter into a steep dive and catch it in mid-air, repeating the maneuver 3 or more times. The female takes a clump of earth and drops and catches it in the same fashion. Their nesting areas are characterized by the extreme regularity of the nest spacing.

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Copulation normally lasts 10—20 seconds. Mating seems to occur around 40—46 days before the initial egg-laying. After the first chip is broken off of the egg, there is no activity for around 27 hours. After this period, the hatching activity accelerates and the shell is broken apart in 35 hours. The chick is completely free in 37 hours.

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Fledging occurs at 66 to 75 days of age in Idaho and 70 to 81 days in Scotland. The first attempted flight departure after fledging can be abrupt, with the young jumping off and using a series of short, stiff wing-beats to glide downward or being blown out of nest while wing-flapping. In Cumbria , young golden eagles were first seen hunting large prey 59 days after fledging.

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