Book Readings/Events for The Street-Smart Naturalist

Seattle's Wild Side: Natural History in the City - June 29, 2008 - North Cascades Institute - $95 - We'll spend the day exploring earthquakes, mammoths, glaciers, and the new Olympic Sculpture Park on a tour with NCI. It should be fun and informative.

Custom Tours - I am happy to put together custom tours for people based on my book. My favorite tour is an exploration of downtown building stones. It takes about 1.5 hours and covers about 1.5 miles. We will see rocks that range in age from 3.5 billion years to 125,000 years old, plus fossils ranging from bryozoans (which look like RiceChex cereal) to five-inch wide ammonites (which look like cinnamon rolls). It's a pretty nifty walk. Please email me if you are interested.

Past excerpts from The Street-Smart Naturalist

Seattle Times Sunday Magazine - An excerpt from the chapter on Canada geese ran in the July 17, 2005 edition of the newspaper.

Open Spaces magazine - An excerpt from the chapter on Invasive Species is in the Spring 2005 issue. The magazine is available in bookstores and magazine shops around the country.

The Seattle Weekly - An excerpt from the chapter titled The Plants, which focuses on what Seattle looked like botanically in 1850, appears in the February 16, 2005 issue of the paper.

Reviews and Interviews

June 2, 2007 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Hey, I made the front page of the P-I, along with that nice Mr. Obama. The story about me focuses on urban nature in Seattle and even includes a sort of funny photo of me.

January/February 2006 - Sierra Magazine - A nice review in their Green Life section. Here is little sample:

“Former park ranger David B. Williams discovers a salmon sanctuary in the shadow of a shopping mall, watches a pair of bald eagles build a nest in a well-trafficked Seattle park, and traces his drinking water "from forest to faucet." Just as nature has created unlikely urban niches, Williams's keen observations allow him to make a place in city life for his wild heart.”

November/December 2005 - Orion Magazine - A nice review by Seth Zuckerman. Unfortunately, it isn't online.

September 08, 2005 - The Ledger review - All the way from Lakeland, Florida, a nifty review.

August 3, 2005 - The Seattle Weekly called me the "Best Urban Nature Writer" in their annual "Best of Issue."

June 10, 2005 - Seattle Times review of The Street-Smart Naturalist by Barbara Lloyd McMichael

May 31, 2005 - Weekday with Steve Scher - on KUOW - 94.9 FM - To access the show archive, please go to this web site. http://www.kuow.org/defaultProgram.asp?ID=8869