Totem Magic: Going MAD 

John Griffith has just released his first book, Totem Magic: Going MAD, published by Wheatmark and available on Amazon.com or on John's website: www.totemmagic.com.

Proceeds from the book will be donated to the California Conservation Corps Foundation and other charities.

"Totem Magic: Going MAD is dedicated to all those who love nature, young and old wildlife guardians, and all current and former California Conservation Corps and AmeriCorps members. I am so thankful for your efforts to help preserve and protect our wildlife that I am going to donate 100% of my profits from Totem Magic: Going MAD." John Griffith

For more about the story click here: http://www.totemmagic.com/totem-magic/about-the-book/

About the Author: John Griffith spent his childhood along the creeks and rivers of Northern California catching and releasing turtles, tadpoles, crawdads, and frogs. He has spent his adult life working to keep those creeks and rivers healthy so future generations can enjoy the same discoveries.

When he turned eleven, John began his career as a naturalist. He volunteered at the Suisun Wildlife Care Center near Fairfield, California, where he cleaned the cages of injured animals, fed baby birds, and assisted older volunteers in general care-giving to the furred, feathered, and sometimes scaled patients. Caring for wildlife that was injured and/or orphaned due to human activities opened John's eyes to the plight of animals and their habitats and eventually inspired him to write Totem Magic: Going MAD.

For the past twenty-two years he has held a variety of jobs: working seasonally as a field biologist collecting information on bird, fish, plant, and amphibian populations; planting trees along the Sacramento River for the Nature Conservancy; and building trails for California State Parks in Humboldt County. He has been a wildland firefighter, a farmer, environmental educator for teenagers and young adults, and has worked on a fishing boat in Alaska. John regularly writes and publishes short stories and articles for outdoor adventure magazines and environmental organizations' newsletters. He created his own BS degree at California State University at Chico, combining the disciplines of botany, agriculture, and Latin American studies. Today he is a crew supervisor for the California Conservation Corps, a state youth program that employs young people to plant trees, create salmon habitat, and build trails in the wilderness.

When he's not working, reading, or writing, John can be found snorkeling

  

Luis Alejo: Tri-county area rich in Conservation Corps tradition

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 http://www.thecalifornian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201112130505/OPINION04/112130311  

Jim Nielsen: Conservation Corps fulfills its promise

Jim Nielsen

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Over the years we have been quite critical of wasteful government spending on programs that either did not work or were not necessary in the first place. But one program stands out as an example of a program that fulfills its promise - the California Conservation Corps. ...