Very cool to be a marine biologist AND a good writer. This lady hit the lotto.

I loved the book and all but it's glaring that she didn't mention the Indigenous people of this area. She does mention white settler colonialism ruining / affecting wildlife and urban sprawl, and mentions how animals reclaimed a little bit of what their lives used to be during 2020 lockdowns, but again, NO mention of the Tongva people. Very weird. Treehugging white liberals seem to always miss that. It's also more than just forgetting people were in LA before us, because she does mention what this beautiful Mediterranean-esque landscape used to look like, and then in the end says people need to learn that we cannot be removed from nature, but never mentions the people who already knew that. For a researcher she's missing a huge part of history.