Mary Ellen Hannibal

As climate change encroaches, animals and plants around the globe are having their habitats pulled out from under them. At the same time, human development has made islands out of even our largest nature reserves, stranding the biodiversity other lives within them. The Spine of the Continent introduces readers to the most ambitious wildlife conservation effort ever undertaken: to create linked protected areas extending from the Yukon to Mexico, the...

" ... In search of vanishing species, [Mary Ellen Hannibal] wades into tide pools, follows hawks, and scours mountains. The data she collects will help environmental research--but her most precious discovery might be her fellow citizen scientists: a heroic cast of volunteers devoting long hours to helping scientists measure--and even slow-today's unprecedented mass extinction. ... Hannibal digs into the origins of the tech-savvy citizen science movement--tracing...