Featured speakers

Stephen J. Pyne

Steve Pyne is currently a writer,  urban farmer, and emeritus professor at Arizona State University.  He has written major fire histories for America, Canada, Australia, Europe (including Russia), and the Earth, and most recently The Pyrocene. How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next.  Among books that deal with the Colorado Plateau are Grove Karl Gilbert, a biography of the explorer and geologist, and How the Canyon Became Grand.  In a former life he was a member of the North Rim Longshots for 15 seasons at Grand Canyon.