[3] While she was at Vassar, she helped her friend Elizabeth Cushman respond to minatory remarks by Bernard DeVoto on the state of the US National Parks.
Cushman first wrote a senior thesis on the maintenance issue for the parks system and youth service.
[6] For the first six years of her marriage, from 1959, she worked with her husband Lee Talbot on the ecology of the East African plains.
[10] Talbot has co-written and edited six books and monographs and she has spoken at conferences in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin and North America.
She has been accredited for her services to conservation and scientific research both nationally and internationally, pioneering in organic viticulture.