Jordan Fisher Smith

Jordan Fisher Smith spent 21 years as a park and wilderness ranger in California, Wyoming, Idaho, and Alaska. He is the author of the memoir Nature Noir: A Park Ranger’s Patrol in the Sierra and Engineering Eden: A Violent Death, a Federal Trial, and the Struggle to Restore Nature in Our National Parks, which won a California Book Award and was long-listed for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing. He lives in the northern Sierra Nevada.