Lynda V. Mapes

Lynda V. Mapes is the environmental reporter for the Seattle Times. She researched and wrote Witness Tree while a Knight Fellow in science journalism at MIT and a Bullard Fellow in forest research in residence with her oak at the Harvard Forest.

She is a newspaper reporter and author, an explorer and reveler in the natural world, native plants, and species of every sort.

Her photos, journalism, and books are the result of a lifelong fascination with the natural world and our connection to it. She works from all five senses—and especially, the critical sixth: a sense of wonder.

She lives in Seattle.