Edward Abbey (1927–1989)

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1. Edward Abbey

   Author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Fire on the Mountain, Good News: A Novel (Plume)
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2. John McPhee

   Author of Encounters with the Archdruid, Assembling California, Rising From The Plains

3. Aldo Leopold

   Author of A Sand County Almanac
   All: (2 members)

4. Wallace Stegner

   Author of Angle of Repose, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, The Spectator Bird
   All: (1 member)

5. Barry Lopez

   Author of Arctic Dreams, Of Wolves and Men, About this Life
   All: (1 member)

6. William Least Heat-Moon

   Author of Blue Highways: A Journey into America, PrairyErth, River-Horse

7. Wendell Berry

   Author of Jayber Crow, What Are People For?, The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
   All: (1 member)

8. Jim Harrison

   Author of The Road Home, True North, The Woman Lit By Fireflies

9. Peter Matthiessen

   Author of The Snow Leopard, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Far Tortuga
   All: (1 member)

10. Colin Fletcher

    Author of The Man Who Walked Through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon

11. Robert Wallace

    Author of The Grand Canyon, Hawaii

12. Norman Fitzroy Maclean

    Author of A River Runs through It and Other Stories, Young Men and Fire

13. Terry Tempest Williams

    Author of Refuge, An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field

14. Don Moser

    Author of Central American Jungles, The Snake River Country

15. Edmund Wilson

    Author of Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s: The Shores of Light / Axel's Castle / Uncollected Reviews, Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s: The Triple Thinkers, The Wound and the Bow, Classics and

16. Rachel Carson

    Author of Silent Spring, The Edge of the Sea, Under the Sea-Wind

17. John Steinbeck

    Author of Travels with Charley: In Search of America, John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley and Later Novels 1947-1962
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18. Annie Dillard

    Author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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19. Ted Widmer

    Author of American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War, American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton (Library of America)

20. John Wesley Powell

    Author of The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, Down the Colorado