Kris Millgate Author Talk - My Place Among Birds

Rediscovered Books is pleased to host Idaho author, journalist, and naturalist Kris Millgate for the release of My Place Among Birds. Kris is a wonderful storyteller, speaker, presenter and film maker, always armed with amazing photographs and visuals.

Books will be for sale at the event and Kris will be signing afterwards.

About the book:

Find the largest grouse in North America with Emmy-winning outdoor journalist Kris Millgate. In the fourth installment of her My Place collection, Millgate follows disappearing sage grouse through the high deserts of the American West for the wildlife film . Her journey through the brushlands of Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Wyoming reveals the challenges people and wildlife encounter as the presence of this upland bird shrinks.

With the loss of sagebrush comes the loss of greater sage grouse. The wild bird’s population has declined by eighty percent since 1965. To save what’s left, we must save what we’ve overlooked for a century. The West’s dominant landscape, sagebrush steppe, is evolving from perceived wasteland to cherished wild land.

My Place Among Birds is the story of how one woman, sometimes crawling and sometimes crying, goes looking for feathers only to discover it is the desert that heals all hurts.

About the author:

Millgate is an Emmy-winning multimedia journalist who spent a decade in TV news before starting Tight Line Media in 2006. She hosted Time OUT, an outdoor TV news segment, for seven years then created East Idaho Outdoors Magazine in 2014. Her first book, , published in 2019. The sequel, , published in 2021 with the debut of her salmon film Ocean to Idaho. Her third book, My Place Among Beasts published with her wildlife film, On Grizzly Ground, in 2023. Her newest production, Sage Wisdom West, premieres in 2026 along with its backstory book, .

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