Melanie Choukas-Bradley
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Melanie Choukas-Bradley

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Melanie Choukas-Bradley is an award-winning nature book author and Certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide (Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs). Melanie leads forest bathing walks and tree tours for the Audubon Naturalist Society, the United States Botanic Garden, Smithsonian Associates, the Rock Creek Conservancy, the Nature Conservancy, Casey Trees, Politics & Prose, the Aspen Institute, Aspen Center for Environmental Studies and other organizations. Melanie’s most recent book is Finding Solace at Theodore Roosevelt Island (September, 2020), winner of multiple awards. She is also author of Resilience--Connecting With Nature in a Time of Crisis (May 2020) and The Joy of Forest Bathing—Reconnect with Wild Places & Rejuvenate Your Life (2018). She is the author of the IPPY award-winning book, A Year in Rock Creek Park—The Wild, Wooded Heart of Washington, DC (2014); City of Trees—the Complete Field Guide to the Trees of Washington, DC (2008); An Illustrated Guide to Eastern Woodland Wildflowers & Trees—350 Plants Observed at Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland (2007); and Sugarloaf—the Mountain’s History, Geology and Natural Lore (2003). Melanie has traveled throughout Japan, participating in forest bathing walks led by shinrin-yoku guides. Melanie’s forest bathing walks have been featured on NPR, on the Travel Channel website, in National Parks magazine and many other print and online publications. She is a frequent guest on NPR’s Washington, DC affiliate, WAMU, and she is a long-time contributor to The Washington Post and many other publications. Finding Solace at Theodore Roosevelt Island awards: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, 2020 Best Book in the category of Environmental (given by the National Association of Book Entrepreneurs) 2021 Book Excellence Awards, Finalist 2021 Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize, Finalist eLit Book Awards, 2021 Gold Medal for Environment/Ecology/Nature Royal Dragonfly Book Award, 2020 1st Place for e-book in the category Letters/Journals/Diaries Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2021 Finalist Nature/Environment Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2020 Finalist
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