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Meet
Jack Laws |
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 Jack
Laws' early interest in natural history, botany and sketching
guided him to his greatest current passion, field journaling.
In high school he started birding and keeping detailed illustrated
journals. He began working in environmental education while
in high school and college. While earning his B.S. at UC Berkeley
in Conservation and Resource Studies, he worked as an interpretive
aid at a regional park in Berkeley, worked summers at the
Teton Science School and started leading adult education classes
at the California Academy of Sciences. He then served as a
naturalist at Walker Creek environmental education center,
where he refined his techniques for incorporating field journaling
into the science curriculum. After getting his Masters in
Wildlife Biology at University of Montana, he returned to
California Academy of Sciences as an environmental educator,
then manager of field studies. A few years ago, after deciding
he wanted to create a truly portable and accessible field
guide to the Sierra, he left the California Academy of Sciences
to earn a scientific illustration degree at UC Santa Cruz.
He then headed off into the mountains to create a fully illustrated
naturalists' field guide to the Sierra. In addition to working
on his field guides, he also leads monthly field sketching
groups from the Bay area, teacher-training workshops, and
contributes regularly to Bay Nature magazine with his "Naturalists
Notebook" column. |
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