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Freelance writer; Contributing Editor, High Country News

Michelle Nijhuis is a freelance writer and a longtime contributing editor of High Country News. Her reporting on conservation and global change has appeared in Smithsonian, National Geographic, the Atlantic, and the anthologies Best American Science Writing and Best American Science and Nature Writing. In 2011, as an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow, she is researching radical measures to conserve critically endangered species. She lives off the grid in rural Colorado.