Book contributor wins 2008 National Book Award

Peter Matthiessen, one of the writers in Wildlands CPR's anthology, A Road Runs Through It, has won the 2008 National Book Award for fiction.

His piece in A Road Runs Through It, "The High Country," is an engaging description of Matthiessen's steep hike with tribal members in the northern California Siskiyous, sacred "high country" for the Yurok, Karuk, Tolowa and Hupa Indians. But it is also where Simpson Timber Company wanted to log, creating access roads that "...totaled 265 miles, far more than enough to undercut all of these steep mountainsides and bring down a whole rare world into the creeks."

This is Matthiessen's second National Book award; he also won in 1979 for his well-known nonfiction book, The Snow Leopard.