Mark Dowie is up next at the Inkwell, with his new book entitled, "Conservation Refugees: the Hundred Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples."

Mark Dowie is an investigative historian. His previous work has included histories of organ transplantation, land use, the environmental movement and philanthropic foundations. He is a former editor at large of InterNation, a transnational feature syndicate based in Paris and a former publisher and editor of Mother Jones magazine. He lives in Point Reyes Station California.

Leading this conversation is WELL member Anne Boyd.

Anne is a project manager at a landscape architecture firm in Los Angeles, specializing in parks and public work. Her professional interests include the expression of narrative, history and the arts in landscape; memorial landscapes and cemeteries; urban wildlife habitats; and ecoregionally appropriate landscape design. She first read William Cronon, Alfred Crosby, and Donald Worster as an undergraduate at Brown University, and has maintained an interest in environmental history ever since. She blogs about landscape architecture, urbanism, nature, and the ethics of being a design professional at http://theparsley.wordpress.com/

Thank you for joining us here, Anne and Mark! [Read entire topic]