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rockybarker.com is the virtual manifestation of Rocky Barker
author of Scorched
Earth: How the Fires of Yellowstone Changed America. The Washington
Post says Scorched Earth, "conveys a powerful lesson about how
Americans have sought to manage the "cataclysmic forces" of forest
fires." The story has inspired a television movie, Firestorm:
Last Stand at Yellowstone that ran on A&E Network starring Scott
Foley and Richard Burgi and co-produced by Rocky.
Rocky, the environmental writer for the Idaho Statesman has a blog called Letters from the West in Boise. Bill Moyers,
included ’
Rocky in his PBS program "Is God Green?"
 Rocky used to live in Wisconsin.
Check out the pictures of the sinking house
on Lake Superior. Listen to Tim Chaney's
song, It Sunk. Dennis McCann writes about those connections in
the Milwaukee
Journal-Sentinel.
Read his take on media bias in from the Wallace
Stegner Report of the IJNR. "When you care about
education,you’re not accused of being pro-education or pro-children.
But when you care about the environment, you become a lightning rod."
Read about his unique Rockyboxes in in Sierra Magazine.
He writes about trout and salmon in the Fly Fisher's Guide to Idaho. 
Read an excerpt of Scorched Earth published in Forest Magazine or
read Todd Wilkinson's review at New West. Learn about Phil Sheridan's key role in the
birth of the conservation movement on the History News Network.
For more information on rockybarker.com, or to comment on this page write,
call, or e-mail Rocky at: Northwest Experience, 2875 Harmony, Boise, ID
83706
1-(208)-363-0259 rbarker@rockybarker.com
© Rocky Barker 2007
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