Christine Peterson has covered wildlife, the environment and outdoor recreation as a journalist in Wyoming and across the West for almost 15 years, first at the Casper Star-Tribune then as a full-time freelancer. She has since written about grizzly bears, wolves, elk and insects for National Geographic, water law and persistence hunting for Outdoor Life and chronic wasting disease and wildlife migration for High Country News. Her byline has also appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic, Outside, the Cool Green Science web magazine and many other publications. She's the past president of the Outdoor Writers Association of America and has won numerous regional and national awards including the Kavli Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
She believes the most interesting stories are often where humans intersect with the natural world. When she's not reporting or writing from her home in southeast Wyoming, she's outside somewhere with her husband, young daughter and two yellow Labradors.