Elisabeth Ptak is the Associate Director of Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) and a writer and editor who lives and works in West Marin. She is the author of Ranches & Rolling Hills: Art of West Marin—A Land in Trust, published in 2008 by Windgate Press. She also wrote the script for An Abundant Land, The Story of West Marin Ranching, an audio driving tour of West Marin produced by MALT and narrated by Peter Coyote. It will be available to download as an MP3 file in late August at www.malt.org.