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Robert Michael Pyle

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born

July 23, 1947 in Denver, Colorado, The United States

gender

male

genre

Outdoors & Nature, Poetry

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Robert Michael Pyle is a lepidopterist and a professional writer who has published twelve books and hundreds of papers, essays, stories and poems. He has a Ph.D. from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. He founded the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in 1974. His acclaimed 1987 book Wintergreen describing the devastation caused by unrestrained logging in Washington's Willapa Hills near his adopted home was the winner of the 1987 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing. His 1995 book Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide was the subject of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Books by Robert Michael Pyle

Average rating: 3.90 · 274 ratings · 59 reviews · 25 distinct works

	Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide 3.82 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies by Robert Michael Pyle, National Audubon Society 4.17 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place 3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage 3.38 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Thunder Tree: Lessons from an Urban Wildland 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Walking the High Ridge: Life as a Field Trip 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Handbook for Butterfly Watchers by Robert Michael Pyle, Sarah A. Hughes, Sarah Anne Hughes (Illustrator) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	Butterflies of Cascadia: A Field Guide to All the Species of Washington, Oregon, and Surrounding Territories 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2002	My rating: