Chris Clarke

Mojave National Preserve Conservancy Director

Chris Clarke is a natural history and environmental writer, editor and photographer. He has worked as an environmental journalist for two decades, with a focus on the arid landscapes of the American Southwest.

Chris began writing professionally in 1989 for Terrain, a small non-profit monthly environmental publication in Berkeley, CA. He took over the editor’s post there in 1992. By the time he left in 1997 Terrain had acquired a reputation for incisive, intelligent, and iconoclastic writing. Chris has since worked for a number of environmental news publications in print, online and radio, most prominent among them the Earth Island Journal. He’s also been a nationally syndicated garden writer with the Knight Ridder chain, his column generally appearing under the heading “The Irascible Gardener.” Chris’ writing has appeared in publications ranging from Camas and Orion to Bay Nature, California Wild, the New Internationalist, the East Bay Monthly, and about thirty daily papers nationwide.