Gary Ferguson
American nature writer
Gary Ferguson is an American nature writer who explores ecology, conservation and how people relate to the natural world. He wrote The Eight Master Lessons of Nature.
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Born 1956
About Gary Ferguson
Gary Ferguson was born in 1956 and grew up in northern Indiana. He has written many nonfiction books on nature and science, and his articles have appeared in publications including Vanity Fair, the Chicago Tribune and Orion. His memoir The Carry Home was named best nature book of its year by the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute. Honours for his books have come from the Society of American Travel Writers, the High Plains Book Festival and the Montana Book Award committee. Hawks Rest was the first book to receive Book of the Year recognition from both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and the Mountains and Plains booksellers association. Ferguson was the 2002 Seigle Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis and has been a visiting writer at the University of Montana and the University of Idaho. With his wife, social scientist Dr. Mary M. Clare, he co-founded Full Ecology, an initiative that aims to help people close the gap between the human mind and the natural world. The couple live at the edge of the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem.