George Wuerthner's "On the Range"
George Wuerthner
A blog about the West's public lands, ecology and public policy.
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George Wuerthner is an ecologist, writer, and photographer. He has a particular love for the western United States, having lived for varying periods of time in Missoula, Bozeman, Livingston, Boise, Challis, Grangeville, Sheridan, Anchorage, Tok, Beetles, San Bernardino, Santa Cruz, and Eugene. Wuerthner worked as a hunting guide, high school teacher, college instructor, and natural history/wilderness guide in Yellowstone and Alaska. He has also held a number of jobs with federal agencies including positions as surveyor, forestry technician, range technician, botanist, biologist, park ranger and river ranger. Since leaving graduate school, he has published 34 books on geography, national parks, wilderness, conservation history and environmental issues. In researching those books, he has traveled extensively throughout the western US and has been to every major mountain range in the West. He has a particular interest in public lands, and wildlands. At one time or another he has visited every major western national park unit, including all of the monuments, preserves and parks in Alaska, every national forest in the West and the majority of BLM lands, as well as more than 380 designated wilderness areas across the United States.
