M. Kat Anderson is a lecturer in the department of plant sciences at the University of California, Davis; associate ecologist at the Agricultural Experimental Station at the University of California, Davis; and a faculty member in the graduate group in ecology at the University of California, Davis. She is coeditor, with T. C. Blackburn, of Before the Wilderness: Native Californians as Environmental Managers and coeditor, with Henry T. Lewis, of Forgotten Fires: Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness by Omer C. Stewart.
