John Moir at Cody's Books January 10, 2007

JOHN MOIR looks at the RETURN OF THE CONDOR: The Race to Save Our Largest Bird from Extinction. The California condor’s power and endurance were not enough to save it from near-extinction. Human greed and ignorance caused the great bird’s decline – but human ingenuity and insight saved it. The condor owes its survival and recovery to a remarkable team of scientists who flouted conventional wisdom and pursued the most controversial means to save it. Theirs is a story of passion, courage, and bitter controversy, and John Moir, a naturalist and science educator, chronicles the epic story in RETURN OF THE CONDOR, from the moment when the last wild condor was captured to the triumphant morning in 1992 when the first birds raised in captivity were released. Today more than 125 California condors fly free. But as Moir shows, their environment is fraught with dangers still. Moir’s articles have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The San Jose Mercury News, and The Sacramento Bee. 7:00 PM at Cody’s Stockton Street, San Francisco

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