Don Gayton is a grasslands ecologist and the author o Landscapes of the Interior: A Re-exploration of Nature and the Human Spirit and The Wheatgrass Mechanism, among others.

He reads from the opening of his book which includes his dog Spud, the hunter of dandelions. Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden, nominated for a B.C. Book Prize and published by Thistledown Press. The music is Tom Waits.

Topics: from journal to prose, book covers, narrative arc in nature writing, discussion of the term "nature writing" as a genre and classification, his editor at Thistledown, Sean Virgo, with whom he had "a wonderful, extended conversation...a rich, rewarding editorial experience."

At the thirty-minute mark, well-known birder Dick Cannings is on for approximately eight minutes, then the conversation with Don Gayton continues.