Rio de Dios

About the Author

139 About the Authors and the Artist Peter Bowler is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California,Irvine,where he has taught for 28 years.He took his BA at Bard and four years later received his doctorate in biological sciences from UC Irvine, after which he was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Museums of Canada in Ottawa.At present Bowler directs the UCIArboretum,is campus coordinator of UCI’s Natural System Reserves,and is the Co-Director of the Minor in Global Sustainability. He has published well over one hundred papers on topics ranging from ecological restoration of coastal sage scrub to lichen ecology and taxonomy to endangered freshwater snails in the Middle Snake River.He grew up in Bliss,Idaho,on the Snake River,and still enjoys the Snake River’s beauty and ecology,as well as rafting and fly-fishing.His research interests are diverse, encompassing habitat restoration, open space conservation, and mitigation as they relate to biodiversity loss, particularly in coastal sage scrub and wetlands; rare, threatened and endangered species, especially in wetland and sage scrub habitats; lotic and lentic freshwater ecology; the chemical ecology of lichens,particularly in the Ramalinaceae;and environmental ethics.This is his first appearance in a poetry book—and, he hopes, not his last. 140 Photograph by Bruce Bartrug ...