Fierce Country: Heather Hansman in Conversation with Jody Cardamone at Explore Books

Explore Books hosts author Heather Hansman in conversation with Jody Cardamone, for a discussion of Heather's latest book, Fierce Country: The Untold Story of Three Women Who Ignited America's Love for the Wild.

Heather Hansman is an award-winning freelance writer and celebrated author of Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns, and the Future of Chasing Snow. She’s Outside magazine’s environmental columnist and a contributing editor at Backcountry Magazine. Her work has been included in The Best American Essays 2015. She once won a bag of pasta in an Italian big-mountain-skiing contest (tenth place out of eleven women). She lives in Southwest Colorado.

Jody Cardamone is an Aspen native, environmental education mentor, and life-long naturalist. She was hired in 1975, as the Founding Director of the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies and together with her husband Tom, nurtured ACES and the Hallam Lake preserve for nearly four decades. She continues to be a fierce defender of wildlands and wildlife.