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We’re Destroying Our Planet and All the Wild Things On It
The Merlin shot out of the forest and nabbed the young Tree Swallow out of the air so quickly that all witnesses were caught off guard, including the chick’s parents and me. As the Falcon made for the...
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How Wolves Shape the Natural World
The wolves drove an elk down the side of a steep, snow-covered butte under a sky close and gray. There were three wolves. The one in the lead was almost pure white. She was followed closely by her...
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Why Do We Fear Wolves?
Yolande Waddington walked to the Six Bells Pub for a pack of cigarettes around 10 p.m., slipping in before last call. It was Friday, the week before Halloween, 1966. Outside, the moon was a fat pearl....
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We’re Destroying Our Planet and All the Wild Things On It
The Merlin shot out of the forest and nabbed the young Tree Swallow out of the air so quickly that all witnesses were caught off guard, including the chick’s parents and me. As the Falcon made for the...
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How Wolves Shape the Natural World
The wolves drove an elk down the side of a steep, snow-covered butte under a sky close and gray. There were three wolves. The one in the lead was almost pure white. She was followed closely by her...
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Why Do We Fear Wolves?
Yolande Waddington walked to the Six Bells Pub for a pack of cigarettes around 10 p.m., slipping in before last call. It was Friday, the week before Halloween, 1966. Outside, the moon was a fat pearl....
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On the Many Braveries of Marjory Stoneman Douglas
When I first heard about the shooting, I felt only horror, the same as everyone else. But my second thought was regret that the bloodshed of February 14 in Parkland, Florida had tied the name Marjory...
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Our 2,000 Mile Bicycle Book Tour
Drops of rain began lightly drumming on our helmets as we pedaled south towards Evanston, Illinois. We pulled over to quickly put on rain gear, scarf down a couple granola bars, and check the bearings...
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Meet the Heroic Park Rangers Battling Poaching in Kenya
I was eager to meet a few superstar rangers who are effectively combating poaching. One place immediately came to mind: the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya. That privately owned protected area is...
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How Do You Save an Endangered Species in a Warzone?
Recent years have seen a global effort to study and conserve the Asiatic cheetah in Iran, but there has been little evidence of the Asiatic cheetah’s presence in Afghanistan; the last visual sightings...
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Joy Williams’ Ecological Call to Arms Is As Urgent As Ever
Every day I receive a dozen or more mass emails about the devastating effects of climate change. These are accompanied by photographs that bring on what the poet Mark Doty called “soul-honing grief.”...
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Meet the Bay Area Butterflies Fighting For Survival
When I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in college, I was oblivious to the region’s status as a global epicenter for rare butterflies. The Mission Blue (Icaricia icarioides missionensis), the San...
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On Peter Matthiessen’s Lifelong Fascination with Bigfoot
In September 1976, Peter Matthiessen took me aside at a family wedding in Seattle. He was 49 and at the acme of his ambidextrous literary powers. Far Tortuga, his finest novel, about a doomed voyage of...
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On the Trail With the Vlogging Teens of America
Favre Lake is nestled at the bottom of a tight mountain cirque, with steep grassy slopes rising on three sides toward the crumbling ridgelines that tower above. As we approached its shoreline, it was...
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An Environmentally Ethical Argument for Hating Birds
A few years ago, I was at a reception inaugurating the school year when an art historian I know tapped me on the shoulder. Was I still writing a book about birds, he wondered, because he had drafted a...
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What the Beaver Can Teach Us About Innovative Conservation
The man appeared suddenly, out of the darkness and around the bend. He was standing to the side of the asphalt, near the edge of the floodlights illuminating a barricade of orange traffic barrels and,...
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