Hillary Rosner in Conversation with Joseph O’Connor

Join us on Thursday, May 28 at 7pm as we welcome award-winning science journalist Hillary Rosner, author of , in conversation with Mountain Journal Managing Editor Joseph T. O’Connor.

In ROAM, Rosner asks urgent questions: Where will we be in 20 years if we don’t begin reconnecting the natural world? Can we stitch ecosystems back together before it’s too late? And what if rebuilding these ecological connections could also help heal our fractured relationships—with one another and with the planet?

Drawing on more than 200 interviews and reporting from landscapes across the U.S., Central America, Europe and Africa, Rosner introduces scientists, farmers, dedicated volunteers, and others working to restore wildlife corridors and reimagine human infrastructure. Her global reporting underscores the importance of wild animals being able to move freely—and how manmade barriers like roads, fences, farms and sprawl have gotten in the way.

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Books can be purchased at the event or preordered in advance on our website or by calling Country Bookshelf at (406) 587-0166 during regular business hours.

The event at a glance:

• On May 28, please arrive early to secure your seat. Seating is general admission, first come, first served.
• At 7:00pm, the event will begin. The author will take audience questions following the program.
• After the talk, the author will sign books.
• Can't attend in person? Order signed copies on our website or by calling (406) 587-0166. Signing requests must be placed 24 hours before the event and can only be taken for books we currently have on our shelves.

ABOUT ROAM: WILD ANIMALS AND THE RACE TO REPAIR OUR FRACTURED WORLD

What if saving our home planet starts with giving other species space to roam? How can we re-shape our human-built landscapes to serve both people and wildlife?

These are the questions that Hillary Rosner attempts to answer in Roam, an urgent quest to figure out how to stitch our fragmented planet back together. It's about the people trying to reconstruct landscapes where animals can once again move freely, as they did for millennia. It's about reconnecting Earth so that wild species and natural systems have room to adapt and thrive. It's about seeing wildlife as the guides we need to lead us to adapt to climate change.

Humans have always altered the landscapes around us; in some ways it's part of what defines us as a species. But since the middle of the last century, we've changed the Earth on an overwhelming scale. Our infrastructure, our hunger for resources, our methods of farming and traveling and living--all these have rendered our planet inhospitable for the other species that live here. As a result, all over the globe, animals are stranded--by roads, fences, drainage systems, industrial farms, cities. They simply cannot move around to access their daily needs. Yet as climate change reshapes the planet in its own ways, many creatures will, increasingly, have to move in order to survive.

This book illustrates a massive and underreported problem: how a completely human-centered view of the world has impacted the ability of other species to move around. But it's also about solutions, and hope: How we can forge new links between landscapes that have become isolated pieces. How we can stitch ecosystems back together, so that the processes still work, and the systems can evolve as they need to. How we can build a world in which humans recognize their interconnectedness with the rest of the planet, and view other species with empathy and compassion.

ABOUT HILLARY ROSNER

Hillary Rosner is a science journalist and editor. She has reported on the environment from across the U.S. and around the world for publications including National Geographic, the New York Times, and the Atlantic. Her work has won two AAAS-Kavli Awards and others from the Society of Environmental Journalists and the National Association of Science Writers. She's been a Ted Scripps Fellow, a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and an Alicia Patterson Fellow. She's a frequent speaker at workshops and seminars on science communication and loves teaching scientists how to write about their own work. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

ABOUT JOSEPH T. O'CONNOR

Joseph T. O’Connor is Mountain Journal’s Managing Editor. He has an extensive background in multimedia storytelling including writing, editing, video broadcast and investigative journalism. Joe most recently served as Editor-in-Chief for Mountain Outlaw magazine and the Explore Big Sky newspaper in Big Sky, Montana. He has published work in several publications from the East Coast to California, including Newsweek, CNN, and Skiing magazine, among others.

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