Jenny Price, a freelance writer and environmental historian, is the author of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America. She has published in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and LA Weekly, and in Audubon, Good, and Believer, and is a regular contributor to the "Native Intelligence" column on LA Observed. She has a Ph.D. in history from Yale University, and is currently living on Venice Beach and writing a new book, Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.