Steve Nash teaches journalism at the University of Richmond (VA). His reporting on environmental issues has appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, BioScience, The Scientist, and National Parks. In 1989 he received the John M. Collier Award of the Forest History Society for a magazine article on research on restoring the American Chestnut. In researching his most recent book, Blue Ridge 2020: An Owner's Manual (1999, University of North Carolina Press, $19.95 paperback), Nash's goal was to collect the myriad of current scientific information on the Blue Ridge ecosystem and make it accessible to the general reader. Nash consulted and read resource management plans, scientific investigators' annual reports, correspondence, and scholarly publications on the Blue Ridge ecosystem. He interviewed many of the scientists in person, drawing them out to further explain their work and what it portends for the region. He even accompanied some of them into the field in order to report on their efforts. Nash is currently arranging speaking engagements--that include a slide presentation on some of the research included in his newly published Blue Ridge 2020--with environmental and outdoor organizations.
For more information about the book, the author, and the Blue Ridge,
go to the author's website at http://blueridge2020.com
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