About the Author

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Jon Kohl has published over 255 academic, professional, and popular articles, including a sci-fi romance novella, a book on holistic planning (with Steve McCool), a textbook on heritage interpretation in Spanish (with Marisol Mayorga), and this Field Guide. NAI has published some 40 of these works. Jon also works as an interpretive writer, translator, planner, blogger, and trainer with the PUP Global Heritage Consortium, a global non-profit he founded and directs to promote a holistic focus to natural and cultural heritage management. He earned a Master s in Environmental Management from Yale University School of the Environment and a Bachelor s in Ecology and Political Science from Dartmouth College. He served as an environmental educator and interpreter in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica, where he now lives with his family.