Eric Wagner is a staff writer with the Puget Sound Institute. He has a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Washington and is the author of Once and Future River: Reclaiming the Duwamish, Penguins in the Desert, and After the Blast: The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens. His essays and journalism have appeared in The Atlantic, High Country News, Orion, and Smithsonian, among other places.