Waterston – Charles Hood

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Finalist Charles Hood proposed a project titled Desert Fire, which would look at the past, present and future interactions between wildland fire and the desert ecosystems. It includes Native perspectives as one of the central parts of this conversation.

Hood has spent a career living and working in the Mojave Desert of Southern California, though his nature study has taken him around the world and to the South Pole. He has published 22 books, including Wild L.A., now in its fourth printing. His collection of essays, A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature, won the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award. His most recent books are Nature at Night: The Hidden World That Comes Alive after Dark and Double Hyenas and Lazarus Birds.