Acknowledgments

For her tireless work on and enthusiasm for both the idea and the manuscript I would like to thank my editor, Antonia Fusco. Thanks to Art Cooley, one of the founders of the Environmental Defense Fund, who gave his time and energy to help me understand the EDF’s beginnings and how those beginnings intertwined with ospreys. For their help with my research I would like to thank Mary Sears of the Ernst Mayer Library at the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology, Kathy Tuxbury, Lee Baldwin, Gus Ben David, Joey Mason, Norton Nickerson, Bob Prescott, Dennis Murley, Laurel Duuda, Anders Price, and Pat Pratson. I leaned heavily on my great neighborhood resource, the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, where my thanks go out to Nancy Church, Fred Dunford, Eric Levy, Deborah Diamond, and, of course, the museum’s founder and inspiration, John Hay. Thanks to Peter Thombly for supplying fish, to Laura Moeckly and Glen Davis at the Cape May Observatory for helping me see the birds, to Eileen and Pres Bagley for keeping a roof over our heads. Also thanks to Mark Honerkamp, Don MacKenzie, and Briar Cook for lending me their stories. And to Brad Watson, Dave Rotman, Jon Kenton, Brady Udall, and Pat Bellanca. And many thanks to my agent, Lisa Bankoff.

This book would have been impossible without the help of Alan Poole.

Thanks to Heidi, Noah, and Addie for the summer visits that light up our year. And many thanks for the indispensable love and support of Georges and Carol de Gramont and Barbara Gessner.

Finally, as always, a thousand thanks to Nina.