Pam Hendrickson calls New Mexico's Gila Forest the place of her soul. From her hilltop home at Lake Roberts, her daily routine includes a lot of "critter" watching. Her subjects' antics often end up in her weekly Silver City Daily Press column, "Mountain Views." Recently one of her articles about a local Mimbres Indian ruin was picked up by the Associated Press and reprinted in newspapers across the state.

Pam has won several journalism awards over the years, writing for newspapers such as the Sacramento Union and San Francisco Chronicle, and she has been published in several magazines, including Jack & Jill and Good Housekeeping. She loves research as much as writing and will write about anything. Behind any "thing," she believes, is at least one person with an interesting story to tell.