‘The Last Pork Chop’: A Wild Northern Reading Guide
The best books about the Northern wilderness and our place in it.
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John Muir
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The Modern Environmental Movement’s Big Failure
Things are finally starting to change—slowly—but, to the detriment of people of color and the environment itself, the conservation movement has been too focused on wealthy, white men.
Vulnerable Species Are in One Part of the Country; Protected Habitats Are in Another
A study says that if we want to prevent extinction, we’re protecting the wrong areas of the country. Can't we do both?
Writing From the Woods: Surveying the Literature of Opting Out
As part of our week-long series on people who opt out of society, Eva Holland traces the American tradition of examining the outdoors with loving precision, from Henry David Thoreau to Annie Dillard.
Why Don’t We Have a National Park to Protect Native Grasslands?
It might be the only way for our National Park Service to nurture the kind of ecological awareness required for a genuine environmental ethic.
