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Richard Preston
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
In conversation with Judith Lewis, senior editor, L.A. Weekly

From the bestselling author of The Hot Zone, an amazing account of scientific and spiritual passion for the tallest trees in the world, the startling biosystem of "the canopy" and those who are committed to the preservation of this astonishing and largely unknown world.
Co-presented with the Institute of the Environment at UCLA

Richard Preston is regarded as one of the leading authors writing about science in our time. He's written five books, including The Hot Zone, The Cobra Event, and The Demon in the Freezer, which are his "Dark Biology" trio. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University, and he's won numerous awards for his writing, including the American Institute of Physics Award and the National Magazine Award. He's also the only non-physician ever to receive the Centers for Disease Control's Champion of Prevention Award for public health. An asteroid is named "Preston" in his honor. (Asteroid Preston travels on a wild orbit near Mars, and it may slam into Mars or the Earth some day, creating an explosion similar to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.)

Judith Lewis is a senior editor at the LA Weekly, where her writing on technology, the arts, natural resource issues, public health and the environment has appeared since 1991. Her work also appears in High Country News, WIRED, Salon, Sierra Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. She won a first-place Los Angeles Press Club award for her technology column, "Close to the Machine" and an Association of Alternative Newsweeklies award for her reporting on nuclear power and global warming. She is a member of the Society for Environmental Journalists, and is currently at work on a lay person's guide to nuclear energy.

The program is co-presented with the Institute of the Environment at UCLA.
The Institute of the Environment (IoE) is an innovative and vibrant intellectual community focused on the Environment. Its members and constituents represent every area of specialty that touches the environment, encompassing a broad array of academic disciplines, research interests, policy concerns and outreach avenues. All have one common passion: How to unite to bring about positive, sustainable change to preserve our complex and interdependent world for generations to come.

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