Bruce Barcott is an American editor, environmental journalist and author. He is a contributing editor of ''

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'' and others. He has also written a number of books, including '' The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier'' (1997) and ''The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird'' (2008). In 2009 he was named a Guggenheim Fellow in nonfiction. Barcott was born in

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, and raised in Alaska, California and Washington. After graduating from the

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, he worked for ''

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'' for ten years as a writer and editor. He and his ex-wife, writer Claire Dederer, have two children. He was a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the

University of Colorado at Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a Public university, public research university in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a Federated state, state, it is the fla ...

. In 2004 his cover story about the Bush Administration's changes to the Clean Air Act for ''

'' was judged the year's best piece of explanatory reporting by the

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. He is also a co-host of Leafly's news podcast "The Roll-Up".

Bibliography

*''Northwest Passages: A Literary Anthology of the Pacific Northwest from Coyote Tales to Roadside Attractions'' (1994), Sasquatch Books, *''The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier'' (1997), Random House, *''The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird'' (2008), Random House, *

References

External links

Bruce Barcott
personal home page.

profile at ''Outside'' magazine.

by Elizabeth Royte, ''

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