Brad Tyer

Brad Tyer is the author of "Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape" (Beacon Press, 2013). He has worked as an editor at the Missoula Independent, and currently works as managing editor of the Texas Observer. His writing has appeared in Outside, High Country News, the New York Times Book Review, the Houston Chronicle, the Drake, Texas Monthly, No Depression, and the Dallas Morning News. He's been awarded a Knight-Wallace Fellowship, a Fund for Investigative Journalism grant, and a Fishtrap writing residency.

Photographer Photo Credit Name: Jen Reel, 2013.