लेखक: Peggy L. Fiedler

Peggy L. Fiedler is the systemwide director of the UC Natural Reserve System. She was Professor of Biology at California State University, San Francisco, from 1989—2000, and founder of San Francisco State’s graduate program in conservation biology. She is the lead co-editor of Conservation Biology: The Theory and Practice of Nature Conservation, Preservation, and Management, Conservation Biology: For the Coming Decade, and the author of Rare Lilies of California. Susan Gee Rumsey joined the UC NRS in 1987 and was its principal publications coordinator until her retirement in 2011. She was responsible for more than twenty years of the NRS Transect newsletter, as well as the 2010 publication of Mountain Time: Reflections on the Wild World and Our Place In It, the final book written by NRS founder Kenneth S. Norris.Kathleen M. Wong is the principal publications coordinator of the UC NRS. Formerly editor for California Wild, the magazine of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco until 2006, she has written for such widely read environmental publications as Bay Nature and Nature. She is the co-author, along with Ariel Rubissow Okamoto, of Natural History of San Francisco Bay, a California Natural History Guide published by UC Press.