Conservation of the Environment

Intellectually rich, intensely personal, and beautifully written, Tracks and Shadows is both an absorbing autobiography of a celebrated field biolo...

When George Bristol first saw the mountains surrounding East Glacier, Montana, in the early summer of 1961, he was, in his own words, awed to his d...

Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2021 for Writing on Global Conservation Climate change is the greatest challenge to humankind today. While t...

Plant leaves collectively represent the largest above-ground surface area of plant material in virtually all environments. Their optical properties...

Food how its grown, how its shared makes us who we are. This issue traces the connections between farm and food, between humus and human. Accor...

South Africa is renowned for its wildlife and environmental conservation in iconic national parks such as the Kruger, one of the world's first form...

For the first time, this volume presents Vernon Bailey's correspondences and field notes spanning the majority of his life and career, collected an...

People who flyfish know that a favorite river bend, a secluded spot in moving waters, can feel like homea place you know intimately and intuitively...

Long ago we invited bears into our stories, our dreams, our nightmares, our lives. We have always sought them out where they live, for their hides,...

Formed by the confluence of the Ocmulgee and Oconee Rivers, the Altamaha is the largest free-flowing river on the East Coast and drains its third-l...

Millions of people know a little bit about efforts to save the whooping crane, thanks to the movie Fly Away Home and annual news stories about ultr...

The Rocky Mountains of Idaho and Montana are home to some of the most important remaining American wilderness areas, preserved because of citizens ...

Fredrick Swanson tells the story of Guy M. Brandborg and his impact on the practices of the U.S. Forest Service. As supervisor of Montana's Bitterr...

To keep the land in the family . . . To operate the land profitably . . . To leave the land better than they found it . . . Each year, Sand County ...