Riley Black has been a fossil fanatic since the time she was knee-high to a Stegosaurus. Her evolution into a science writer and amateur paleontologist was only natural. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, right in the center of dinosaur country, she chases tales of vanished lives from museum collections to remote badlands....

Dan Flores is A. B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of Western History at the University of Montana. A distinguished writer about nature and environmental issues, he is the author of the New York Times bestseller "Coyote America" and the Amazon bestseller "American Serengeti....

Mike Stark is a former reporter for the Associated Press who comes to the festival with "Chasing the Ghost Bear," a story of the giant real-life creature that roamed North America until its extinction in the Ice Age....