Author of a dozen books and several hundred other published works. 

Winner of awards including the James D. Phelan Award, the Commonwealth Club Medal in Californiana (twice), and the David R. Brower Award for Service in the Field of Conservation (American Alpine Club).

Editorial consultant on public involvement documents and reports in the planning and environmental fields.

Instructor in the craft.
 
 

. . . .about Legacy: Portraits of 50 Bay Area Environmental Elders (Sierra Club Books, 2006, with photographer Nancy Kittle):

"The San Francisco Bay Area is forever in debt to the far-seeing activists profiled in this book. Hart's text is alive with descriptions of what has been saved and how it was managed.  Kittle brings additional life to this tale with her extraordinary photographs."

            —Congressman Tom Lantos

 

. . . .about San Francisco Bay: Portrait of an Estuary (University of California, 2003, with photographer David Sanger):

"Hart and Sanger bring us a deft blend of very readable history, accessible science, and alluring photography."

            —Steven J. McCormick, President, The Nature Conservancy

 

. . . .about Walking Softly in the Wilderness: The Sierra Club Guide to Backpacking (fourth edition, 2005):

"On the greener side of the how-to Hall of Fame, this is the only comprehensive guidebook to thoroughly integrate minimum impact skills."  —Backpacker Magazine

 

 

. . . .about Storm Over Mono: The Mono Lake Battle and the California Water Future (University of California Press, 1996):

"John Hart intricately weaves the behind-the-scenes events and personalities of one of the great environmental parables  of our times into a compelling narrative."  —Galen Rowell

 

. . . .about The Climbers (University of Pittsburgh Poetry Series, 1978).

"The tough-mindedness and technical excellence of these poems demand and deserve discriminating readers."  —Library Journal

 

. . . .about Blue Unicorn magazine, the venerable poetry journal co-edited by Hart:

"It pushes back the encroachments of barbarism—never more evident than in our own years.”  —John Pairman Brown, professor at Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley

  

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