first, dyana furmansky. her book on northwestern west has appeared in many publications, including odd dough bon magazine, high country news, and american heritage. she co-authored these american lands, parks, wilderness and be public lands. but her latest book is, rosalie, automobile of mercy, the activist who saved nature from the conservationists. she received a nature award as the 2010 colorado book award. secondly, next to me, i'd like to introduce chris mooney, a science and political journalist, blogger and trainer of scientists in the art of communication. i hope to learn some lessans from him. i league his blog in the houghing ton post. the latestes whether universities create liberals or liberals create university. his books include a book been hurricanes and global warming, and the republican war on science. he has a new book coming out in a few weeks with the uncontroversial title: the republican brain, the science of why they deny science and reality. [laughter] >> finally, at the end of the tab

. >> let's start with dyana. tell us about rosalie edge. >> it's good that chris is here because he educates us about how to talk to the public and what he probably doesn't know and probably most of you don't know is that may be the inventor of that in the environmental movement was a boreman named rosalie edge. if you are not at my talk yesterday, you probably have not heard rosalie edge. okay. i don't see a huge swell of recognition. rosalie edge was born in 1877, she was a new york socialite, she was a child of the gilded age, very prominent family. her family hobnob with the vanderbilts and carnegie and had a very finite life and certainly none of these prepared her to be the godmother of the environmental movement which she did become leader in her life. nothing prepared her. she was a complete dilettante, amateur in dilettante and had a very cushing safe life until certain things happened to her that changed everything. you probably heard of racial carson, you've probably heard of david brower and the wilde