Brandon Breen is a writer and conservation biologist living in Ashland, Oregon. He has worked on numerous avian research projects throughout the U.S. and abroad, focusing on such species as the California and Andean condors, the turkey vulture, and the golden-cheeked warbler. Brandon started backpacking as a teenager and he has backpacked throughout the USA as well as in Canada, New Zealand, Scotland, China, Japan, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, and the Falkland Islands. Brandon has assisted on Sierra Club outings in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument as well as Kluane National Park, Yukon Territory.