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Preventable Death Rattles Yurok Tribe’s Pioneering Condor Program

Partnering with the feds, the tribe has led the way on restoring the pre-conquest wild to Redwood National Park's skies. Read all about it here.

The Unseen Beast Appears

An unusual paw print reminds me that legendary creatures beyond our ken prowl the woods nearby. Read all about it here.

Trump Trashing Public Lands

The DOGE boys claim it's about efficiency. No, it's about wrecking the wild. Read all about it here.

Wild Light from the Dark Side, Part 2

Old-growth redwoods were originally preserved to enshrine white supremacy. That's changing. Read all about it here.

Wild Light from the Dark Side, Part 1

Sometimes those with the worst motivations end up doing something good, even if they didn't mean it that way. Here's just such a case, from California's coastal-redwood country. Read all about it here

The Veiled Violence of Yosemite’s Renaming

What's in a name? A lot, including genocide and dispossession. Read all about it here.

Mars, McKinley, and Manifest Destiny à la Trump

Right from the git-go, the man who would be king invokes colonizing violence as rightful. Read all about it here.

“No Right Place in the Landscape”

What began as a chance run-in turned into John Muir's definitive pronouncement on dispossessing tribal people from wild lands. Read all about it here.

The Story Behind a One-of-a-Kind Picture of John Muir

C. Hart Merriam took the only known photo of Muir in the company of Native Californians. How'd that happen? Read all about it here.

The Company He Kept: The Wildlife Scientist Turned Native California Anthropologist

C. Hart Merriam brought his field-science skills to bear on the state's tribal peoples. Read all about it here.