Lansing Shepard

Lansing Shepard, a former writer for the Christian Science Monitor, specializes in conservation, environmental policy and natural history. A contributor to the Smithsonian Institution’s Guides to Natural America series, he has been the writer for several exhibitions for the U.S. National Park Service and the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum of Natural History, with which he is affiliated. He most recently coordinated research and writing for Minnesota: A History of the Land, a five-part public television series on the history of Minnesota’s landscapes, a joint project of the Bell Museum and Twin Cities Public Television.