Sally Bolger

Sally Bolger is a writer, an explorer, and a conservationist. Her energies have always been focused on efforts to protect the environment. She has managed non-profit partners of national parks, including serving as manager of the Giacomini Wetlands Restoration Project, which restored more than 550 acres of wetland habitat at the southern end of Tomales Bay in the Point Reyes National Seashore. Through telling the tale of the people involved, the difficulties overcome, and the successful species recovery that has been experienced, Sally used her time at the Mesa Refuge to develop a feature-length article to engage a general audience and encourage individuals, communities, non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies to have similar courage to undertake environmentally necessary, but daunting projects.

She joined a rafting expedition into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to collect photos that would dispel the belief that the Refuge was a wasteland just waiting to be drilled for oil. She joined efforts to monitor the dolphin population off the pacific coast of Costa Rica, catalogue the health of the coral reefs off southwest Madagascar, support the Cabo Pulmo marine protected area in Baja California, help the tribes of the Amazon defend their territories and their cultures from destruction, and learn earth-saving wisdom from the Kogi tribe in Colombia—all the while, writing the stories of the people, places and insights she experienced along the way.

Her recent book, Fun in the Mud – a slyly educational fairy tale about the web of life in wetlands – is being published by Roundtree Press, an imprint of Cameron and Company.