Yosemite Wildlife: The Wonder of Animal Life in California’s Sierra Nevada

＂The first comprehensive book in more than a century devoted to wildlife in Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Nevada region, since publication of Grinnell and Storer’s 1924 work, ＂Animal Life in the Yosemite.＂＂-- Provided by publisher.

Beth Pratt, wildlife advocate and author, has worked in environmental leadership roles for over thirty years, and in two of the country’s largest national parks: Yosemite and Yellowstone. Pratt leads the National Wildlife Federation’s #SaveLACougars campaign to build the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing outside of Los Angeles. Her innovative conservation work has been featured by the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, BBC World Service, CNN, CBS This Morning, the Los Angeles Times, Men’s Journal, the Guardian, NPR, AP News, and more. She is also the author of I Heart Wildlife and When Mountain Lions are Neighbors. Beth makes her home outside of Yosemite, her ＂north star,＂ with her dogs and cats, and the mountain lions, bears, foxes, frogs, and other wildlife that frequent her backyard. Robb Hirsch studied ecology and worked as a field biologist for the California State Parks, USGS, and private biology firms prior to his nature photography career. He publishes his images in books, calendars and magazines and leads photography workshops throughout the Sierra Nevada. His primary focus is using quality imagery for outreach, education and conservation, facilitating a deeper appreciation of the natural world. Robb is the author/photographer of The Nature of Yosemite: A Visual Journey. He and his wife, Regina, own Mountain Sage, a gallery-café-plant nursery in the Yosemite gateway community of Groveland, CA, where he lives.