Stories
For many people, a working landscape is part of an outdoor life: a creek for casting a line, a forest track leading to a favourite hunting area, or a quiet…
Strolling out the back door at dawn and noticing a line of small prints in the soft soil beside the chook pen is a pretty fair dinkum Australian moment. Tracks…
A dead tree can look like a liability: a stripped trunk, loose bark and bare branches that seem ready to fall. In a healthy woodland, however, this structure…
Fire is a natural ecological process in many landscapes, but its effects depend on intensity, timing and frequency. A carefully planned burn can open dense…
The Clark Fork-Pend Oreille Conservancy operates at a hinge point of North American conservation geography. Its work along the rivers and ridgelines of Sanders…
Artificial light has reshaped the night sky across much of the inhabited world. Across bushland reserves, riparian corridors, and agricultural easements, the…
Seasonal wetlands, those shallow basins that fill with snowmelt and spring rains and then dry by late summer, are among the most important amphibian habitats…
Across Australia and the Pacific Northwest, private landowners increasingly choose to protect bushland, riparian corridors, and wildlife habitat through…
The sun is barely up over Sanders County when the work truck is loaded with field gear, a battered clipboard, and a thermos that has seen better decades. A…
The Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in north-western Montana is a landscape shaped by deep time, moving ice and persistent water. Its sharp ridges, secluded…