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Birds, Bees, and STDs

Natural History, Feb, 1999 by Yvonne Baskin

Yvonne Baskin ("Birds, Bees, and STDs") hopes her recent articles for Natural History will not brand her as a specialist in fungal diseases (see "Trouble at Timberline," November 1998, in which she profiled the effect of a blister rust on whitebark pines). A freelance writer who divides her time between Montana and California, Baskin started out in 1969 as a reporter covering fires, floods, and politics in North Carolina.

A craving to explore complex subjects in depth led her to specialize in science writing. Her latest book is The Work of Nature: How the Diversity of Life Sustains Us (Island Press, 1998).

COPYRIGHT 1999 Natural History Magazine, Inc.

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