Amanda Karst
Amanda Karst is a research associate with the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources in Winnipeg where, among other projects, she has investigated the impact of climate change on traditional foods and medicines. She has a B.Sc. with Honors in Biology from the University of Regina and a Master's degree in Biology from the University of Victoria.

Linda Kershaw
LINDA KERSHAW is the best-selling author of a number of nature books published by Lone Pine. She is a career botanist who has consulted and done research for national governments, the World Wildlife Fund and universities. Her extensive field work has taken her into the vast Canadian boreal forest as well as above the treeline in the Rocky Mountains, on Ellesmere Island and in New Zealand. Linda now works as a writer and editor when not pursuing two of her favourite pastimes--photography and illustration.