"Turning Back The Tide: Preserving the Beautiful and Fragile Elkhorn Slough"
High Country News 
July 2010
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"The Little Owls That Live Underground"
Smithsonian
May 2010
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"A Great Survival Story"
Outside Magazine
March 2010
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Returning Home to Stirling Castle
Stirling Castle Website
February 2010
Winner, Stirling Castle Writing Competition

Seeking a Vocation in No-Man’s Land: Iraq to Berkeley
High Country News
October 26, 2009
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Timothy Egan’s Western Odyssey:
A talk with the author of five books about the West
High Country News September 14, 2009
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A Rare Chance to View Nesting Condors
“Winging It” magazine, American Birding Association
August 2009
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So Many Species, So Little Time
Orion Magazine
January/February 2009
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Condors in a Coal Mine
Smithsonian
September 9, 2008
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(Grand Prize Winner, 2009 Writer’s Digest Writing Competition)

Get Up, Stand Up for Your Writing
Poets and Writers
September/October 2008
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Wingbeats of Hope in an Age of Loneliness
Henry Miller Library’s International Journal “Ping Pong”
August 2008
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(Honorable mention for Feature Article, 2009 Writer’s Digest Writing Competition)

The Face of Recovery
Birder’s World
October 18, 2007
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Get the Lead Out to Save the California Condor
San Francisco Chronicle
July 25, 2007
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It’s Not Where You Live, But Where Your Heart Is:
On a visit to the Scottish town of his ancestors, an American man comes ‘home’
Christian Science Monitor
July 9, 2007
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Bringing Back the Condor
Birding Magazine, American Birding Association
January 2005
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(First Place for Nonfiction, East of Eden Writing Conference at the National Steinbeck Center.)