About Author

An associate professor at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, Zachary Michael Jack is a member of the environmental studies faculty and a specialist teaching courses in place and rural studies. The great-grandson of conservation writer Walter Thomas Jack, Zachary is a former writer-in-residence at the Blue Mountain Center in the Adirondacks and the author or editor of many books on outdoor life, including several previous collections on conservation, the environment, and agrarianism, including Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings.