SHANA CLEVELAND

AWAY from the identikit suburbs, California can be a wild place. Where Shana Cleveland lives for instance, out near Grass Valley and the Sierra Nevada mountains, there are coyotes, foxes, mountain lions and rattlesnakes. It’s the kind of place, she explains, where you watch life and death up close, where the whole kaleidoscope of nature, both beautiful and horrible, can be seen. “Every year a mother fox has babies right behind our house,” she tells . “But that seems cute…”