About Julie

Julie grew up in California. Early on, she earned teasing from her family for wearing out the knees of her supposedly indestructible Sears Extra-Tuff jeans climbing on rocks in the Sierra Nevada mountains. A proud tomboy, she refused to wear a skirt until well into her teen years. Childhood summers were spent swimming in the icy-cold Merced River and hiking ever farther up the Bridalveil Falls trail in Yosemite. During backpacking and horse camping trips with her dad, she honed her negotiating skills by talking her best friend Wendy into various ill-advised peak-bagging adventures.

After earning a degree in conservation and resource studies from the University of California, Berkeley, Julie worked in California and Alaska as a land use planner and a public information officer. She has traveled as far north as Barrow, Alaska and as far south as Costa Rica, with many more spots on the list of "places to see" than "places seen." She has sea-kayaked here and there along the west coast of North America and wants to paddle all seven continents before she dies.

As the associate editor of Arizona Wildlife Views magazine since 2005, Julie has frequent opportunities to write about nature and wildlife conservation. In 2009, TV producer Carol Lynde interviewed her for a segment about the magazine. Watch it online:

Arizona Wildlife Views TV segment

Thank you for visiting! Enjoy the journey.

"The life of a nature writer isn't all fun and games ... though it seems that way sometimes. Fellow traveler Steve Abbey snapped this photo while I was on assignment at the Southwestern Research Station in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona."
~Julie