Traver, Tim 1954-

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Traver, Tim 1954-

PERSONAL:

Born 1954; married; children: three. Education: Yale University, M.S.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Taftsville, VT.

CAREER:

Has worked as executive director for the Vermont Institute of Natural Science, and the Upper Valley Land Trust, and as the director of the Norman Bird Sanctuary; freelance writer.

WRITINGS:

Sippewissett; or, Life on a Salt Marsh, illustrations by Bobbi Angell, Chelsea Green Publishing (White River Junction, VT), 2006.

Former columnist for the Providence Journal and the Falmouth Enterprise.

SIDELIGHTS:

Tim Traver is a freelance writer and environmentalist who writes frequently about both travel and science. He works on and writes about issues of land usage, management of wildlife, and the protection of the environment. In his Sippewissett; or, Life on a Salt Marsh, Traver revisits the marshlands of Cape Cod, where he spent his childhood, providing readers with a look at the local ecology and a history of the area that, in part, was responsible for his interest in environmental work. He also includes information and a history of the nearby Woods Hole Oceanic Institute, which fits in well with the narrative. Susan E. Brazer, in a review for Library Journal, called Traver's book "educational, touching, and highly relevant in today's changing ecological world." Booklist contributor Colleen Mondor wrote that "Sippewissett is a rare book, as it both informs and entrances. A delight from beginning to end." In a second review, for Bookslut, Mondor remarked that "clearly, Traver has an environmental message with his book," but went on to note: "It is so much more than a political attack on big business, or government or anything else that all too often furious conservationists find themselves railing against. Traver has written something truly lovely here."