The Author

John Hart’s first byline appeared in Marin County’s weekly Pacific Sun in August of 1970. Since then, he has ranged over a vast landscape of environmental issues in 16 books and several hundred articles. Frequently, though, the Marin resident circles back to home turf. Four of his titles, including the award-winning Farming on the Edge (Univ. of California Press, 1991), have focused squarely on local affairs. His books were drawn on for the noted TV documentary Rebels with a Cause, which tells how a vast coastal greenbelt, stretching north from the Golden Gate, came to be.