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Joseph Taylor lives in Oregon and teaches environmental and western history at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. His first book, Making Salmon (University of Washington Press, 1999), on the history of the Pacific Northwest salmon crisis, won the George Perkins Marsh Prize in 2000. His latest book, Pilgrims of the Vertical (Harvard University Press, 2010) won the National Outdoor Book Award for history and biography. He is currently finishing a book on the role of historical analysis in environmental advocacy and management.