Curt Stager is a professor of biology at Paul Smith's College of Arts and Sciences in the northern Adirondacks. He is cohost of the nationally syndicated public radio program Natural Selections and his writing has appeared in National Geographic, Science, Wild Earth, and Adirondac, among others. Anne E. Lacy is an artist based in Lake Placid, New York. Her illustrations have appeared in many publications and books, including The Adirondack Wildguide. Her work has also been featured in exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution.