BEI Emeritus fellow, Brenda Peterson recently appeared on New Dimensions Radio, a station that promotes “Activism, art, education, science, psychology, philosophy, health, spirituality… all these things and more.” In this segment, entitled, “The Benefit of Restoring Wildlife into the Ecosystem,” Peterson lends her expert knowledge on wolves, and ecosystems as a whole. Brenda Peterson is a novelist, nature writer, and writing teacher. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Orion Magazine, and O: The Oprah Magazine. She’s a regular commentator for Seattle NPR and the Huffington Post. She is the author of eighteen books, including Build Me an Arc: A Life with Animals and the novel Duck and Cover (Backinprint.com 2004), Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves (De Capo 2017) and I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth (Da Capo Press 2010) She is the Co-author of Wolf Haven: Sanctuary and the Future of Wolves in North  America( co-author Annie Marie Musselman) (Sasquatch Books 2016)