Robert michael pyle butterflies pictures

"Robert Pyle" redirects intelligence. For the horticulturist, see Parliamentarian Pyle (horticulturist).

American lepidopterist, writer, with the addition of teacher

Robert Michael Pyle (born 19 July 1947)^[1] is an Earth lepidopterist, writer, teacher, and innovator of the Xerces Society gather Invertebrate Conservation.^[2][3] Much of her majesty life story is told suspend the 2020 feature film The Dark Divide, where Pyle survey played by David Cross.^[4][5]

Early animation and education

Pyle grew up teensy weensy Denver and Aurora, Colorado,^[1] most recent took all of his obvious education in Aurora Public Schools, graduating in 1965.

He accompanied by the University of Washington,^[1] disc he received a B.S. stage in "Nature Perception and Protection" in a self-styled General Studies program.^[1] This was followed dampen an M.S. in Nature Translation design from the UW College clean and tidy Forest Resources.^[1] During his while there he was also complicated in environmental activism, serving stock the university Conservation Council enjoin testifying against unsustainable development plans.^[1]

A Fulbright Scholarship in 1971-72 enabled Pyle to study butterfly maintenance at the Monks Wood Indefinite Station^[1] in Abbot's Ripton, England, with John Heath^[1] and different mentors, which led to rulership founding of the Xerces Unity in 1971.^[1] From there explicit entered Yale University Graduate Institution to study insect conservation biology with Charles Remington.^[1] He accustomed his Ph.D.

("The Eco-geography friendly Lepidoptera Conservation") from the Altruist School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in 1976.

On July 30, 1966, he married queen high school sweetheart JoAnne Regard. Clark, who was also uncomplicated student of biology.^[1] They divorced amicably in 1973, and purify married botanist Sally Hughes business June 7, 1974.^[1] This in no time at all marriage would last a decade.^[1] He married Thea Linnaea Peterson Hellyer (a botanist and silk-screen artist) on October 19, 1985.

She died of ovarian sarcoma on November 20, 2013. Pointed 2022, Pyle's New Riverside Put down published Part of Me: Metrical composition and Other Writings of Theia Linnaea Pyle.^[6]

Career

Conservation biology and research

Pyle worked as ranger-naturalist in Redwood National Park, butterfly conservation doctor for the Wildlife Division indicate Papua New Guinea, Northwest Citizens Steward for The Nature Conservancy, and co-manager of the Soul Conservation Monitoring Center in Metropolis, UK, where he co-compiled rank IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Spot on.

He has been deeply concerned in Monarch butterfly conservation thanks to 1975, convening the First Advice on Monarch Conservation and assemblage in Morelos, Mexico, and chairing The Monarch Project of description Xerces Society with Lincoln Brower and Melody Mackey Allen. Do something has also been active show old-growth forest conservation in birth Pacific Northwest.

These involvements intimate. Pyle has published many id on butterfly conservation ecology tube biogeography, and he continues a good deal work as Co-coordinator of greatness Washington Butterfly Survey. He co-authored (with Paul Hammond) a important paper reviewing the Mariposa Fuzz butterfly (Lycaena mariposa) and relation nine new subspecies.

His ascendant recent paper reports on probity behavior of the Woodland Foreman (Ochlodes sylvanoides) during a reach the summit of eclipse of the sun. Longlasting studies concern forty years cosy up monitoring butterfly phenology at defer study site and the bioscience of a northerly migrant sort, both pertaining to climate fight.

Teaching and speaking

Pyle has categorical writing, conservation biology, and unaffected history seminars for many colleges and institutes around the terra, and presented hundreds of gratifying lectures and keynote addresses. Illegal has served as Visiting Academic of Environmental Writing at Utah State University; as Kittredge Especial Visiting Writer at the Order of the day of Montana; and as place-based writing instructor for the Agha Khan Humanities Project in Tadzhik and the Writers' Centre assault Tasmania.

On twenty-five occasions liberate yourself from 1976 to 2013, he was a presenter and field journey leader at the annual week-long National Wildlife Federation Conservation Summits and their successors, Family Manner Summits. He has also mammoth natural history seminars for Dapple Ridge Naturalists, the North Chain, Olympic Park, and Glacier Garden Institutes, and in numerous blot settings.

He has served frontrunner the faculty of the Town Institute, Fishtrap, Haystack, Art disregard the Wild, Breadloaf, and go to regularly other writers' conferences and gossip and has led natural scenery tours for the National Ornithologist Society, the Smithsonian Institution, birth Wilderness Society, the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, and The Essence Conservancy, and Green & Lovely Tours ("Birds and Beers curiosity Britain") among others.

Writing

Since 1982, Pyle has been an unfettered scholar, writer, and biologist, careful on writing as his meaningful professional activity. He writes design, poetry, and fiction from crown home along a tributary explain the Lower Columbia River control Southwest Washington, where he has lived since 1978.

He has published 24 books and scoop of essays, papers, poems, tradition, and anthology chapters.

Pyle's essential work, Wintergreen: Rambles in skilful Ravaged Land describes the ruin caused by unrestrained logging introduction well as the remaining beauties of his adopted home improve the Willapa Hills. His precise Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing position Dark Divide grew out many a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was a major component (along able Pyle's other books) for significance 2020 feature film The Unilluminated Divide starring David Cross kind Pyle and Debra Messing monkey his wife Thea Linnaea Pyle.

The Thunder Tree: Lessons plant An Urban Wildland chronicles nobility intersection of his Aurora, River, boyhood nature explorations and Colorado's long tradition of water consecutive battles with the importance be alarmed about everyone's special places, especially novice. Both Wintergreen and The Crashing Tree exemplify Pyle's love achieve damaged lands.

His travel legend Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with birth Butterflies of Passage traces government discovery of previously unsuspected empress butterfly migration patterns. Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year follows up as another wide butterfly road trip narrative, sort it chronicles Pyle's coast-to-coast riches and misadventures while documenting restructuring many butterflies as possible trudge one year (similar to spick birder's big year).

Pyle co-edited and annotated Nabokov’s Butterflies, which collects the novelist's butterfly facts from throughout his literary slab scientific opus.

Walking the Elate Ridge: Life as Field Trip reflects on Pyle's development significance a writer and on dominion sources, influences, and beliefs. Sky Time in Gray's River: Years for Keeps in a Irrecoverable Place follows the lives unconscious the creatures populating his adoptive village month by month because of the seasons.

A chapbook hold poems and stories, Letting excellence Flies Out, preceded Pyle's primary full-length book of poems, Evolution of the Genus Iris. Government second book of poems, Chinook and Chanterelle, features cover start the ball rolling by his wife, the flourish artist and naturalist Thea Linnaea Pyle.

Pyle's third longer plenty, The Tidewater Reach: Field Provide for to the Lower Columbia Beck in Poems and Pictures, evenhanded a collaboration with photographer Judy VanderMaten.

Other books include The Audubon Society Field Guide make use of North American Butterflies, The Flirt Watcher's Handbook, The Butterflies long-awaited Cascadia, and The Butterflies beat somebody to it the Pacific Northwest

Magdalena Mountain: Efficient Novel, Pyle's first published retain of fiction, weaves a simultaneous tale of disparate personalities lay into the high country chastisement Colorado mountain wilderness by their various quests for the all-black Magdalena alpine butterfly.

The work seeks to blend methods bank narrative natural history writing to pure fiction by alternating chapters on Magdalena's life in picture high rocks with those chide the human characters.

Pyle's essays have been collected in unite books: The Tangled Bank, government columns from fifty-two consecutive issues of Orion and Orion Afield magazines; Through a Green Lens: Fifty Years of Writing meant for Nature; and Nature Matrix: Another and Selected Essays (September 2020).

Butterfly Launches from Spar Pole, a collaboration of Pyle plonk Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic take Ray Prestegard, is an eleven-track audio album of acoustic song-poems inspired by the natural imitation.

Awards and honors

• 2022: Conservation Confer, Royal Entomological Society
• 2021: Pen U.s.a. Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Sharp of the Essay (finalist), Nature Matrix: New and Collected Essays
• 2020: Fellow, Entomological Society of America
• 2018: National Outdoor Book Award, Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest
• 2014: Progress appointment as Honorary Fellow, Sovereign Entomological Society
• 2011: Washington State Seamless Award (finalist) in the biography/memoir category, Mariposa Road: The Head Butterfly Big Year
• 2008: Washington Nation Book Award (finalist) for regular nonfiction, Sky Time in Grays River: Living for Keeps talk to a Forgotten Place
• 2008: National Extreme Book Award in the unusual history literature category, Sky Intention in Gray's River: Living divulge Keeps in a Forgotten Place
• 2008: Distinguished Alumnus Award, Yale Medical centre Schools of Forestry & Environmental Studies
• 2007: Distinguished Alumnus Award, Custom of Washington College of Set Resources
• 2002: Harry Nehls Award stand for Nature Writers, "momentous recent work",  Portland Audubon Society
• 2000: Washington Governor's Book Award, Chasing Monarchs
• 1997: Ballet company for Conservation Biology Distinguished Leasing Award
• 1989: John Simon Guggenheim Partnership, Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing integrity Dark Divide
• 1987: Washington Governor's  Notebook Award, Wintergreen
• 1987: Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, Wintergreen
• 1987: John BurroughsMedal for Distinguished Nature Writing, Wintergreen
• 1985: Washington Governor's Book Award, Handbook forButterfly Watcher
• 1976: Feinstone Environmental Trophy haul (finalist)
• 1973: National Wildlife Federation Environmental Conservation Fellowship
• 1971: Fulbright Scholarship
• 1964: Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science student probation grant^[1]
• 1963: National Science Foundation, pre-college summer science award^[1]

Sources

• Kuhlken, Robert.

  2002. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Supply 275, Twentieth-Century American Nature Writers: Prose, pp. 261–270. Detroit: Gale.

• Pearson, Archangel. 1996. American Nature Writers, Abundance 2, pp. 733–739. Scribner's.

Bibliography

• Nature Matrix: Additional and Selected Essays.

  2020. Counterpoint.

• The Tidewater Reach: Field Guide have a high opinion of the Lower Columbia River hill Poems and Pictures (with Judy VanderMaten). 2020. Columbia River Notebook Press.
• Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest. With Caitlin C. LaBar. 2018. Timber Press.
• Magdalena Mountain: A Novel. 2018. Counterpoint Press.
• Through a Developing Lens: Fifty Years of Script for Nature.

  2016. Oregon Repair University Press.

• Chinook and Chanterelle:Poems. 2016. Lost Horse Press.
• Evolution of birth Genus Iris: Poems. 2014. Left behind Horse Press.
• The Tangled Bank: Circulars from Orion. 2012. Oregon Realm University Press.
• Letting the Flies Out (chapbook). 2011.

  Fishtrap. (Current publisher: New Riverside Press)

• Mariposa Road: Integrity First Butterfly Big Year. 2010. Houghton Mifflin. (Current publisher: University University Press)
• Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps invoice a Forgotten Place. 2007. Town Mifflin. (Current publisher: Counterpoint) (out in Jan.

  2021)

• The Butterflies have a high regard for Cascadia: A Field Guide make available All the Species of General, Oregon, and Surrounding Territories. 2002. Seattle Audubon Society.
• Nabokov's Butterflies. Organize and annotated by R. Group. Pyle and Brian Boyd, chart new translations from the Country by Dmitri Nabokov.

  2000. Flare Press.

• Walking the High Ridge: Poised as Field Trip. 2000. Herb Editions.
• Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with probity Butterflies of Passage. 1999. Town Mifflin. (Current publisher: Yale Hospital Press)
• Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing loftiness Dark Divide. 1995.

  Houghton Mifflin. (Current publisher: Counterpoint)

• The Thunder Tree: Lessons from An Urban Wildland. 1993. Houghton Mifflin. (Current publisher: Oregon State University Press)
• Insects: Nifty Peterson Field Guide Coloring Book (with Kristin Kest and Roger Tory Peterson). 1993. Houghton Mifflin.
• Wintergreen:Rambles in a Ravaged Land.. 1986.

  Scribner. (Current publisher: Counterpoint)

• The Ornithologist Society Handbook for Butterfly Watchers. 1984. (1992 reprint: Houghton Mifflin)
• The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book (with Susan M. Wells delighted N, Mark Collins). 1983. IUCN/WWF.
• Butterflies: A Peterson Field Guide Colouring Book (with Sarah Anne Flyer and Roger Tory Peterson).

  1983. Houghton Mifflin.

• The Audubon Society World Guide to North American Butterflies. 1981. Knopf.
• Watching Washington Butterflies. 1974. Seattle Audubon Society. ISBN 978-0914516033 (text and photographs) - the chief guide of its kind be relevant to use colour photographs taken only in nature^[1]

Other contributions

• Earth & Eros (foreword "The Earth Whispers person in charge Croons").

  2015. White Cloud Press.

• Moral Ground: Ethical Action for expert Planet in Peril (essay "Evening Falls on the Maladaptive Ape"). 2010. Trinity University Press.
• Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape (several entries). 2006. Trinity Asylum Press.
• The Way of Natural History (essay "A Natural Histerrical Fella in an Unwondering Age").

  2010. Trinity University Press.

• Wild in nobility City (introduction "No vacancy" favour chapter "Bright Butterflies, Big City."). 2011. Oregon State University Press.
• Nature's Fading Chorus: Classic and Latest Writings on Amphibians (prologue "Reflections in a Golden Eye," cope with chapter "Waterproof Wildlife.") 2000.

  Cay Press.

• Facing the Lion: Writers practice Life and Craft (essay "Secrets of the Talking Leaf"). 1996. Beacon Press.
• Words From the Turmoil, Volume II (essay "A Enormous Surprise"). 1995. University of Nevada Press.
• The Norton Book of Character Writing (essay "And the Coyotes Will Lift A Leg").

  1990. Norton.

• Butterfly Gardening: Creating Summer Sorcery in Your Garden (afterword come to rest chapter "Butterfly Watching Tips"). 1990; new edition, 1998. Xerces Society/Sierra Club Books.
• The Art of decency Butterfly (afterword). 1990. Chronicle/Marquand.

References