Christopher Ketcham is a freelance journalist and author who has spent over two decades writing about environmental issues in prominent US publications such as Harper’s, National Geographic, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and The New Republic, and in online journals. The author of My Land: how cowboys, capitalism, and corruption are ruining the American west, he is also a contributing editor at Harper’s and an editor of the progressive news website Truthdig. He lives in the Catskill Mountains of New York.