Award-winning author Gary Ferguson has written for a variety of national publications, including Vanity Fair and Outside, and is the author of twenty-seven books on nature and science. His memoir The Carry Home, which the Los Angeles Times called "gorgeous, with beauty on every page," was awarded "Best Nature Book of the Year" by the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute. Hawks Rest--described as "dazzling" by The San Francisco Chronicle--was the first title to win the Best Book award from both the Mountains and Plains and the Pacific Northwest booksellers associations. Decade of the Wolf, meanwhile, written with Yellowstone wolf project director Doug Smith, was Montana Book of the Year. Gary's 2016 article "A Deeper Boom," for Orion magazine, was chosen "Best Essay of the Year" by the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

Gary is a frequent keynote speaker on a variety of conservation issues, as well as a former member of the National Geographic Lecture Series.