Robert Michael Pyle

Robert Michael Pyle, is a biologist and writer who has published twenty-four books and hundreds of papers, essays, stories and poems. His 1987 book Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land, describing the devastation caused by unrestrained logging in Washington’s Willapa Hills where he lives, won the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing. His books since then include  Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide, The Thunder Tree, Chasing Monarchs,  Sky Time in Gray’s River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place, and The Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year, as well as three collections of poems, a flight of well-known butterfly books, and the acclaimed novel Magdalena Mountain. They have won two National Outdoor Book Awards and three Washington Book Awards. Brand new is The Tidewater Reach, poems of the Lower Columbia River, and forthcoming in September 2020 is Nature Matrix: New and Selected Essays (Counterpoint). Pyle, who founded the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in 1971, has been named Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.