CONTRIBUTORS 



A safari holiday to Africa persuaded STEVE BLOOM to swap his 

 career in graphic arts for the peripatetic life of a travel photog- 

 rapher. Nowadays he attempts, in photographs such as his 

 thrilling image of galloping horses in the Camargue ("The Nat- 

 ural Moment," page 4), to capture animals' spirits. Two new 

 books of his photographs will be published this year, Spirit oj the 

 Wild (Thames & Hudson) and Elephant! (Thames & Hudson). 

 More of his photos can be viewed on his Web site (www.stevebloom.com). 



JEFF GOODELL ("Cooking the Climate with Coal," page 36) be- 

 came interested in the coal industry in the spring of 2001, when 

 he began research on the topic for an article for The New York 

 Times Magazine. He is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone, and 

 the author of numerous books including The New York Times 

 bestseller, Our Story: 77 Hours That Tested Our Friendship and Our 

 Faith (Hyperion, 2002), based on the experiences of nine Que- 

 creek miners who were trapped underground, and Sunnyvale: The Rise and Fall 

 of a Silicon Valley Family (Villard, 2000). In June, Houghton Mifflin will publish 

 his latest book, Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future, from 

 which his article is adapted. 



As anthropologist EDMUND CARPENTER ("Decoding the Tribe," 

 page 42) explains, the independent scholar Carl Schuster 

 (1904—1969) devoted his life to documenting ancient and tribal 

 graphic designs. No less remarkable than Schuster's is Carpen- 

 ters career, which has ranged from collaborations with the mass- 

 media guru Marshall McLuhan, to ethnographic fieldwork in the 

 Arctic and New Guinea, to archaeological investigations in 

 Siberia. Carpenter is an officer of the Rock Foundation in New York, which 

 supports anthropological publications and films. His books include Oh, What a 

 Blow That Phantom Gave Me! (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972) and, with 

 Schuster, Patterns That Connect: Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art (Harry N. 

 Abrams Inc., 1996). 



W. GRAINGER HUNT ("Home 

 above the Range," page 48) and 

 his co-workers at the Chi- 

 huahuan Desert Research Insti- 

 tute near Fort Davis, Texas, be- 

 gan to work on aplomado re- 

 V- .1 covery in the late 1970s, when 

 Montoya t ]-, e y brought the first pairs of 

 aplomados to the United States from Mexico for captive breeding. He joined 

 the Peregrine Fund in 2001, as senior scientist for the California condor and 

 aplomado falcon restoration projects. TOM J. CADE is professor emeritus of or- 

 nithology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and founding chairman 

 of the Peregrine Fund. He has had a lifelong interest in birds of prey, particu- 

 larly falcons, and is the author of The Falcons of the World (Cornell University 

 Press, 1982). ANGEL B. MONTOYA s interest in aplomados began in 1991, while 

 he was a student intern at Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge in Rio 

 Hondo, Texas. There he learned that the last known nesting of the aplomado 

 in the U.S. was near his hometown of Deming, New Mexico, and he has mon- 

 itored and studied aplomados in the grasslands of Chihuahua, Mexico ever since. 

 He joined the Peregrine Fund as a research scientist in 1999. 



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