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An inside look at the underground economy of marijuana farming in northern California and Hawaii, documents the growers, corrupt law enforcement officials, poachers, dealers, gunslingers, and others that make up this expanding outlaw industry

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Award-winning author Steve Chapple has followed the wandering arc of his generation, covering sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, and babies, not necessarily in that order, as well as outdoor sport, the environment, intellectual capital, and now climate change and the future. Chapple has addressed these topics with Larry King, Charley Rose, and many others. Raised in Montana and La Jolla, educated at Yale, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, ) he holds the patent on the Geospatial News Engine, for the Internet. His national newspaper column, Intellectual Capital (TM, ) is anchored in the San Diego Union-Tribune, and covers game-changing people and ideas. KAYAKING THE FULL MOON: A Journey Down the Yellowstone River to the Soul of Montana (HarperCollins) was a New York Times Notable Book, and won a Lowell Thomas Award for best travel book of the year. A graceful writer with a journalist's sharp eye and a heart as big as his subject, wrote Hampton Sides in the Washington Post Book World. LET THE MOUNTAINS TALK, LET THE RIVERS RUN: A Call to those Who Would Save the Earth (HarperCollins) was written with David Brower, the poetically irascible former executive director of the Sierra Club, and savior of the Grand Canyon. This is the testament of one of the few authentic sages of our time. Brower's voice is passionate, perfectly cadenced, humorous, and very wise, --Edward O. Wilson. The path breaker, not given to easy answers or ruinous compromises, --President Jimmy Carter. Doubleday published his first novel, DON'T MIND DYING A Novel of Country Lust & Urban Decay. Sex in America, A report from the Field (Doubleday, ) written with Salon.com founder David Talbot, summed up the contradictory yet rollicking nature of American sexuality in the '90's. CONVERSATIONS WITH MR. BABY: A Celebration of New Life (Little Brown) is about new parents confronted by a wise-cracking baby who is at first reluctant to be born. Studs Terkel called ROCK 'N' ROLL IS HERE TO PAY: The History and Politics of the Music Industry, (co-author Reebee Garofalo, ) the definitive book on rock music as an industry. He contributes to National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, Outside, the New Yorker, Mother Jones, Conde Nast, and the New York Times. Though he has kayaked most of the Zambezi and all of the Yellowstone, his most daunting adventure, so far, has been an historic first descent of the Los Angeles River.

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