Robert B WeedenRobert W. Weeden has loved birds and the green world that produces them since his boyhood in New England. He received a Ph.D. in ecology from the University of British Columbia, then put the skills he learned there into practice during his decade wit the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. He spent a further two decades teaching and developing courses on resource management practices, policies, and politics, as well as the premises and ethics underlying management of nature, at the University of Alaska.

An avid explorer of every corner of the vast library of writings about prehistory, the spread of civilization, and the uneasy relations between people and Gaia, Weeden now spends his retirement years caring for his own patch of field, orchard, and wild land.
He lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, with his wife, Judy. Small Forays into Big Spaces is his fourth book. Read More Read Less