Our tongues may trip over the term "anthropocene," so let's make this statement: people have changed Earth, in profound ways. If we truly wanted to restore nature as we found it, how would we go about it?
That's one of the questions raised by Jordan Fisher Smith in his book Engineering Eden.
It begins with a man killed by a grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park, and continues to a court case that set two brilliant biologists against each other. The author appears at the Ashland library on Saturday (July 2nd); he visits by phone on the eve of his appearance.