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Gordy Slack Editor & Author

Gordy Slack writes about history and the environment for Pacific Discovery, a natural science magazine published by the California Academy Sciences. He is the author Ferdinand Marcos, a biography of the Philippine dictator, Here Today: Portraits of Our Vanishing Species, and co-author of Witness: Endangered Species of North America. Gordy lives in Oakland, California, with his wife Adriana and son Jonah. C. Buck Reynolds has contributed illustrations to numerous science textbooks. She lives in Berkeley, California.