When I forage with my children, I sink into the delights of radiant mornings—the splendor of trees laden with fruit, my girls ...

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, Julian Hoffman and his wife, Julia, decided to pack up their busy London lives and move to a place ...

Ponderosa is the tree equivalent of a big yellow lab waiting on the front porch, eager to welcome you home at the end of a ...

Julian Brave Noisecat is a writer, filmmaker, powwow dancer, student of Salish art and history, and author of We Survived the ...

Charlotte Taylor Fryar is the author of Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation’s River, an essay collection on the natural history and racial history of Washington DC’s waterways. With a PhD in ...

"How should the mind that can contemplate God relate to our fellow beings, the other life-forms of the world? What is our human responsibility?" ...

HE IS HUNCHED DOWN feeding on the carcass of a newly dead bison by the northeast shore of Yellowstone Lake. He eats methodically, gratefully, his muzzle smeared with blood, his forearms and ruff ...

CONSERVATION EFFORTS OFTEN RELY on charismatic megafauna: large, endangered species that serve as poster children for the fight against extinction. It is because their numbers are in decline that ...

ALTHOUGH ORION STAFFERS always have their noses in a book, it’s been a minute since we offered up a list of recommendations. Here you’ll find whales, fungus, memory, moral accountability, community ...

MADAM JACQUELINE IS SURPRISED TO SEE US, and she does not like surprises. “I was not consulted about this project,” Madame Jacqueline says bluntly. Her short, black hair is neat and full-bodied. She’s ...