About the Author

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MICHAEL K. STEINBERG is a professor of geography at the University of Alabama in the department of geography at New College, where he is the director of the environmental studies minor and coeditor of FOCUS on Geography. His research has been published in numerous professional and general-interest journals, including Conservation and Society, Conservation Biology, Economic Botany, Environmental Biology of Fishes, Geographical Review, and Professional Geographer. His other books include Dangerous Harvest: Drug Plants and the Transformation of Indigenous Landscapes and Stalking the Ghost Bird: The Elusive Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in Louisiana. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama.