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The authors of The Astonishing, Astounding, Amazing Sonoran Desert will present their latest book, Magnificent Majestic Mono Lake. This book is an entertaining introduction to the simple ecosystem and fascinating wildlife of California’s Mono Lake and its basin, and it tells the inspiring story of the fifty-year effort to save Mono Lake from being drained dry by the City of Los Angeles. The book will be available for purchase.

Andrew Smith is President's Professor Emeritus and a Distinguished Sustainability Scientist in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. He is a conservation biologist whose work includes the behavioral ecology of mammals, effects of habitat fragmentation, and ecosystem services provided by small mammals. Smith served as Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Lagomorph Specialist Group from 1991 - 2021. Books include: A Guide to the Mammals of China (2008) and Lagomorphs: Pikas, Rabbits, and Hares of the World (2018). In 2015 Smith received the Aldo Leopold Conservation Award from the American Society of Mammalogists. He has studied American pikas in the Sierra Nevada since 1969 and Plateau pikas on the Tibetan plateau since 1984.

Harriet Smith is a retired clinical psychologist and published author (Parenting for Primates, 2006) with an avid interest in the ecology and conservation of wild places. She hopes that writing about threatened ecosystems will help contribute to their conservation.