Natural Resource Specialist, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Previously, Adriaana served as Fire Prevention Technician with the US Forest Service in the Cascade Mountains of central Oregon. Worked 10 years in outdoor education/interpretation and natural resource management in State and National Parks. Her Masters studies examined the social factors that shape a fire adapted community and those that impact the development of effective community wildfire protection plans.

For the Autumn 2024 issue, Adrianna recommended Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water, Marc Reisner, Penguin Books, 1993, 582 pages

For the Summer 2024 issue, Adrianna recommended The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History, Manjula Martin, Pantheon, 2024, 354 pages.

For the Spring 2024 issue, Adrianna recommended Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration, Sara Dykman, Timber Press, (paperback) 2023, 280 pages.

For the Winter 2023-2024 issue, Adrianna recommended The River: A Novel, Peter Heller, Knopf, 2019, 272 pages.

For the Summer 2023 issue, Adrianna recommended The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Robert F. Griggs/National Geographic Society, Legare Street Press 2022 (reprint), 1922 (original), 348 pages.

For the Spring 2023 issue, Adrianna recommended Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis, Annie Proulx, 2022, 208 pages.

For the Winter 2022-2023 issue, Adrianna recommended Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, Susan Simard, Knopf, 2021, 337 pages.

For the Autumn 2022 issue, Adrianna recommended The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks, by Terry Tempest Williams 2016, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 389 pages.