Nabhan, Gary Paul

Gary Paul Nabhan is an ethnobiologist and co-founder of Native Seeds-Search. He won the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing in 1986 for his book Gathering the Desert.

Other books he's authored include The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country, Enduring Seeds, Counting Sheep, Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves: An American Naturalist in Italy, The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places, Desert Legends: Re-Storying the Sonoran Borderlands, Cultures of Habitat: On Nature, Culture, and Story, and Coming Home to Eat: The Sensual Pleasures and Global Politics of Local Foods.

He is the co-author of The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places (with Stephen Trimble), Canyons of Color: Utahs Slickrock Wildlands (with Caroline Wilson), The Forgotten Pollinators (with Stephen Buchmann), La Vida Nortena: Photographs of Sonora, Mexico (with David Burckhalter and Thomas Sheridan), State of the Desert Biome: Uniqueness, Biodiversity, Threats, and the Adequacy of Protection in the Sonoran Bioregion (with Andrew Holdsworth), and Efrain of the Sonoran Desert: A Lizards Life in the Sonoran Desert (with Amalia Astorga and Janet Miller).

Nablan has also published more than 60 technical journal articles in numerous fields, including regional studies literature, ecology, conservation biology, linguistics, anthropology, and education, and has authored more than 200 magazine articles, poems, essays, and short stories.