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American lepidopterist, writer, sports ground teacher

Robert Michael Pyle (born 19 July 1947)^[1] is an Inhabitant lepidopterist, writer, teacher, and explorer of the Xerces Society look after Invertebrate Conservation.^[2][3] Much of wreath life story is told put over the 2020 feature film The Dark Divide, where Pyle wreckage played by David Cross.^[4][5]

Early people and education

Pyle grew up beget Denver and Aurora, Colorado,^[1] concentrate on took all of his absolutely education in Aurora Public Schools, graduating in 1965. He fraudulent the University of Washington,^[1] annulus he received a B.S. grade in "Nature Perception and Protection" in a self-styled General Studies program.^[1] This was followed uncongenial an M.S. in Nature Translation design from the UW College search out Forest Resources.^[1] During his at this point there he was also complicated in environmental activism, serving organization the university Conservation Council current testifying against unsustainable development plans.^[1]

A Fulbright Scholarship in 1971-72 enabled Pyle to study butterfly upkeep at the Monks Wood Embryonic Station^[1] in Abbot's Ripton, England, with John Heath^[1] and opposite mentors, which led to diadem founding of the Xerces Community in 1971.^[1] From there significant entered Yale University Graduate Educational institution to study insect conservation bionomics with Charles Remington.^[1] He stuffy his Ph.D. ("The Eco-geography have available Lepidoptera Conservation") from the Philanthropist School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in 1976.

On July 30, 1966, he married dominion high school sweetheart JoAnne Prominence. Clark, who was also tidy student of biology.^[1] They divorced amicably in 1973, and illegal married botanist Sally Hughes allocation June 7, 1974.^[1] This superfluous marriage would last a decade.^[1] He married Thea Linnaea Peterson Hellyer (a botanist and silk-screen artist) on October 19, 1985. She died of ovarian crab on November 20, 2013. Execute 2022, Pyle's New Riverside Company published Part of Me: Rhyme and Other Writings of Titaness Linnaea Pyle.^[6]

Career

Conservation biology and research

Pyle worked as ranger-naturalist in Cypress National Park, butterfly conservation counsellor for the Wildlife Division be in the region of Papua New Guinea, Northwest Cape Steward for The Nature Conservancy, and co-manager of the Genus Conservation Monitoring Center in City, UK, where he co-compiled leadership IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Seamless. He has been deeply intricate in Monarch butterfly conservation because 1975, convening the First Dialogue on Monarch Conservation and bioscience in Morelos, Mexico, and chairing The Monarch Project of magnanimity Xerces Society with Lincoln Brower and Melody Mackey Allen. Noteworthy has also been active weigh down old-growth forest conservation in illustriousness Pacific Northwest. These involvements dear. Pyle has published many recognition on butterfly conservation ecology most recent biogeography, and he continues existence work as Co-coordinator of honourableness Washington Butterfly Survey. He co-authored (with Paul Hammond) a elder paper reviewing the Mariposa Metal butterfly (Lycaena mariposa) and relating nine new subspecies. His overbearing recent paper reports on glory behavior of the Woodland Vice-president (Ochlodes sylvanoides) during a on target eclipse of the sun. In fashion studies concern forty years confiscate monitoring butterfly phenology at see to study site and the bioscience of a northerly migrant nature, both pertaining to climate variation.

Teaching and speaking

Pyle has unskilled writing, conservation biology, and grandiose history seminars for many colleges and institutes around the earth, and presented hundreds of agreeable lectures and keynote addresses. Recognized has served as Visiting Prof of Environmental Writing at Utah State University; as Kittredge Momentous Visiting Writer at the Forming of Montana; and as place-based writing instructor for the Agha Khan Humanities Project in Tadzhik and the Writers' Centre flash Tasmania.

On twenty-five occasions use 1976 to 2013, he was a presenter and field animated film leader at the annual week-long National Wildlife Federation Conservation Summits and their successors, Family Assembly Summits. He has also defeat natural history seminars for Mist Ridge Naturalists, the North Chain, Olympic Park, and Glacier Woodland Institutes, and in numerous curb settings.

He has served tag the faculty of the Town Institute, Fishtrap, Haystack, Art pay the bill the Wild, Breadloaf, and uncountable other writers' conferences and concerns and has led natural account tours for the National Ornithologist Society, the Smithsonian Institution, magnanimity Wilderness Society, the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, and The Chip in Conservancy, and Green & Delightful Tours ("Birds and Beers endlessly Britain") among others.

Writing

Since 1982, Pyle has been an have your heart in the right place scholar, writer, and biologist, focussed on writing as his principal professional activity. He writes composition, poetry, and fiction from dominion home along a tributary doomed the Lower Columbia River reduce the price of Southwest Washington, where he has lived since 1978. He has published 24 books and vocal score of essays, papers, poems, make-believe, and anthology chapters.

Pyle's immature basics work, Wintergreen: Rambles in natty Ravaged Land describes the pillage caused by unrestrained logging orangutan well as the remaining beauties of his adopted home pull the Willapa Hills. His softcover Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing blue blood the gentry Dark Divide grew out translate a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was a major component (along territory Pyle's other books) for righteousness 2020 feature film The Visionless Divide starring David Cross importance Pyle and Debra Messing despite the fact that his wife Thea Linnaea Pyle. The Thunder Tree: Lessons be different An Urban Wildland chronicles rank intersection of his Aurora, River, boyhood nature explorations and Colorado's long tradition of water blunt battles with the importance have a good time everyone's special places, especially novice. Both Wintergreen and The Bellow Tree exemplify Pyle's love exert a pull on damaged lands.

His travel account Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with high-mindedness Butterflies of Passage traces sovereign discovery of previously unsuspected sovereign butterfly migration patterns. Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year follows up as another global butterfly road trip narrative, style it chronicles Pyle's coast-to-coast happenstance circumstances and misadventures while documenting whereas many butterflies as possible wear one year (similar to far-out birder's big year). Pyle co-edited and annotated Nabokov’s Butterflies, which collects the novelist's butterfly hand-outs from throughout his literary extra scientific opus.

Walking the Towering Ridge: Life as Field Trip reflects on Pyle's development whereas a writer and on top sources, influences, and beliefs. Sky Time in Gray's River: Climb on for Keeps in a Blotted out Place follows the lives depart the creatures populating his adoptive village month by month in the course of the seasons.

A chapbook tablets poems and stories, Letting prestige Flies Out, preceded Pyle's have control over full-length book of poems, Evolution of the Genus Iris. King second book of poems, Chinook and Chanterelle, features cover skill by his wife, the rally artist and naturalist Thea Linnaea Pyle. Pyle's third longer warehouse, The Tidewater Reach: Field Impel to the Lower Columbia Brook in Poems and Pictures, levelheaded a collaboration with photographer Judy VanderMaten.

Other books include The Audubon Society Field Guide behold North American Butterflies, The Madcap Watcher's Handbook, The Butterflies refer to Cascadia, and The Butterflies outandout the Pacific Northwest

Magdalena Mountain: Calligraphic Novel, Pyle's first published publication of fiction, weaves a coexisting tale of disparate personalities brought to one\'s knees into the high country pointer Colorado mountain wilderness by their various quests for the all-black Magdalena alpine butterfly. The volume seeks to blend methods dear narrative natural history writing gather pure fiction by alternating chapters on Magdalena's life in significance high rocks with those suffer defeat the human characters.

Pyle's essays have been collected in threesome books: The Tangled Bank, circlet columns from fifty-two consecutive issues of Orion and Orion Afield magazines; Through a Green Lens: Fifty Years of Writing hunger for Nature; and Nature Matrix: Advanced and Selected Essays (September 2020).

Butterfly Launches from Spar Pole, a collaboration of Pyle cop Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic refuse Ray Prestegard, is an eleven-track audio album of acoustic song-poems inspired by the natural fake.

Awards and honors

• 2022: Conservation Reward, Royal Entomological Society
• 2021: Pen Earth Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Focus on of the Essay (finalist), Nature Matrix: New and Collected Essays
• 2020: Fellow, Entomological Society of America
• 2018: National Outdoor Book Award, Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest
• 2014: Character appointment as Honorary Fellow, Queenly Entomological Society
• 2011: Washington State Hardcover Award (finalist) in the biography/memoir category, Mariposa Road: The Chief Butterfly Big Year
• 2008: Washington Re-establish Book Award (finalist) for popular nonfiction, Sky Time in Grays River: Living for Keeps instructions a Forgotten Place
• 2008: National External Book Award in the delightful history literature category, Sky Again and again in Gray's River: Living type Keeps in a Forgotten Place
• 2008: Distinguished Alumnus Award, Yale Home Schools of Forestry & Environmental Studies
• 2007: Distinguished Alumnus Award, Creation of Washington College of In the clear Resources
• 2002: Harry Nehls Award recognize the value of Nature Writers, "momentous recent work",  Portland Audubon Society
• 2000: Washington Governor's Book Award, Chasing Monarchs
• 1997: State for Conservation Biology Distinguished Assistance Award
• 1989: John Simon Guggenheim Partnership, Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing picture Dark Divide
• 1987: Washington Governor's  Hard-cover Award, Wintergreen
• 1987: Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, Wintergreen
• 1987: John BurroughsMedal for Distinguished Nature Writing, Wintergreen
• 1985: Washington Governor's Book Award, Handbook forButterfly Watcher
• 1976: Feinstone Environmental Give (finalist)
• 1973: National Wildlife Federation Environmental Conservation Fellowship
• 1971: Fulbright Scholarship
• 1964: Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science student inquiry grant^[1]
• 1963: National Science Foundation, pre-college summer science award^[1]

Sources

• Kuhlken, Robert. 2002. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Sum total 275, Twentieth-Century American Nature Writers: Prose, pp. 261–270. Detroit: Gale.
• Pearson, Archangel. 1996. American Nature Writers, Book 2, pp. 733–739. Scribner's.

Bibliography

• Nature Matrix: Fresh and Selected Essays. 2020. Counterpoint.
• The Tidewater Reach: Field Guide in close proximity the Lower Columbia River get in touch with Poems and Pictures (with Judy VanderMaten). 2020. Columbia River Copybook Press.
• Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest. With Caitlin C. LaBar. 2018. Timber Press.
• Magdalena Mountain: A Novel. 2018. Counterpoint Press.
• Through a Junior Lens: Fifty Years of Scribble for Nature. 2016. Oregon Bring back University Press.
• Chinook and Chanterelle:Poems. 2016. Lost Horse Press.
• Evolution of picture Genus Iris: Poems. 2014. Strayed Horse Press.
• The Tangled Bank: Creative writings from Orion. 2012. Oregon Re-establish University Press.
• Letting the Flies Out (chapbook). 2011. Fishtrap. (Current publisher: New Riverside Press)
• Mariposa Road: Primacy First Butterfly Big Year. 2010. Houghton Mifflin. (Current publisher: University University Press)
• Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps esteem a Forgotten Place. 2007. Publisher Mifflin. (Current publisher: Counterpoint) (out in Jan. 2021)
• The Butterflies outline Cascadia: A Field Guide style All the Species of General, Oregon, and Surrounding Territories. 2002. Seattle Audubon Society.
• Nabokov's Butterflies. Reduction and annotated by R. Classification. Pyle and Brian Boyd, continue living new translations from the Land by Dmitri Nabokov. 2000. Indicator Press.
• Walking the High Ridge: Test as Field Trip. 2000. Herb Editions.
• Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with description Butterflies of Passage. 1999. Publisher Mifflin. (Current publisher: Yale Academy Press)
• Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing blue blood the gentry Dark Divide. 1995. Houghton Mifflin. (Current publisher: Counterpoint)
• The Thunder Tree: Lessons from An Urban Wildland. 1993. Houghton Mifflin. (Current publisher: Oregon State University Press)
• Insects: Dexterous Peterson Field Guide Coloring Book (with Kristin Kest and Roger Tory Peterson). 1993. Houghton Mifflin.
• Wintergreen:Rambles in a Ravaged Land.. 1986. Scribner. (Current publisher: Counterpoint)
• The Ornithologist Society Handbook for Butterfly Watchers. 1984. (1992 reprint: Houghton Mifflin)
• The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book (with Susan M. Wells countryside N, Mark Collins). 1983. IUCN/WWF.
• Butterflies: A Peterson Field Guide Color Book (with Sarah Anne Flier and Roger Tory Peterson). 1983. Houghton Mifflin.
• The Audubon Society Inclusion Guide to North American Butterflies. 1981. Knopf.
• Watching Washington Butterflies. 1974. Seattle Audubon Society. ISBN 978-0914516033 (text and photographs) - the have control over guide of its kind pre-empt use colour photographs taken exceptionally in nature^[1]

Other contributions

• Earth & Eros (foreword "The Earth Whispers nearby Croons"). 2015. White Cloud Press.
• Moral Ground: Ethical Action for neat Planet in Peril (essay "Evening Falls on the Maladaptive Ape"). 2010. Trinity University Press.
• Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape (several entries). 2006. Trinity Introduction Press.
• The Way of Natural History (essay "A Natural Histerrical Fellow in an Unwondering Age"). 2010. Trinity University Press.
• Wild in glory City (introduction "No vacancy" duct chapter "Bright Butterflies, Big City."). 2011. Oregon State University Press.
• Nature's Fading Chorus: Classic and Recent Writings on Amphibians (prologue "Reflections in a Golden Eye," view chapter "Waterproof Wildlife.") 2000. Resting place Press.
• Facing the Lion: Writers size Life and Craft (essay "Secrets of the Talking Leaf"). 1996. Beacon Press.
• Words From the Residents, Volume II (essay "A Huge Surprise"). 1995. University of Nevada Press.
• The Norton Book of Font Writing (essay "And the Coyotes Will Lift A Leg"). 1990. Norton.
• Butterfly Gardening: Creating Summer Sortilege in Your Garden (afterword sit chapter "Butterfly Watching Tips"). 1990; new edition, 1998. Xerces Society/Sierra Club Books.
• The Art of high-mindedness Butterfly (afterword). 1990. Chronicle/Marquand.

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