FIRST PLACE: David Quammen
SECOND PLACE: Kent Davis
THIRD PLACE: Todd Wilkinson

This year certainly belongs to Bozeman local and preeminent nature writer David Quammen, who became the only author to ever write a whole issue of National Geographic. The magazine was devoted solely to Yellowstone as a celebration of the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary and was expanded into a book to go along with many others on the author’s shelf, such as “Spillover” and “The Song of the Dodo.’