Lisa Densmore Ballard, who has been hiking the Green Mountains for more than thirty years, is the Emmy-winning host of Wildlife Journal (PBS) and a writer and nature photographer whose work has appeared in Backpacker, Her Sports, Vermont Life, and Vermont Magazine. James Buchanan is a journalist, writing coach, and outdoors writer living in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire with his family. He has worked for the Forest Service and traveled extensively throughout the United States.