Perspective from Robert B. Keiter
Yellowstone National Park—established in 1872 and widely regarded as the world’s first national park—represents the initial dominant model for nature conservation both here and abroad.
By Camilla Sandström
Long ago, it is said, the Indigenous Sámi people of the North made a quiet, sacred promise with the reindeer.
By Kelly Dunning
One of my first days in Eswatini, a small country bordered by South Africa and Mozambique, my guide told me a story about the Rhino Wars.
By Maria Vittoria Mazzamuto and Sukhchuluun Gansukh
By Francesco Bisi
The first wolves to enter the Alps in nearly a hundred years found themselves in southeast France’s Mercantour National Park in 1992.
By Annabella Helman
In Kenya’s Rift Valley, a pride of lions begins to stir as the sun descends to the horizon and the air grows still.
By Temple Stoellinger
By Shaleas Harrison
It’s 8 am as the sunlight moves across the foothills of Carter Mountain, the longest mountain in the Absaroka range and east from Yellowstone National Park.
By Tesia Lin
In the 1990s, Kenya’s hirola antelope population “plummeted from 15,000 to an estimated 300-500 animals,” says retired professor Dr. Richard Kock.
By Emily Downing
Every spring, Chris Williams looks forward to seeing the terns alight on the meadows of the southern Wyoming ranch that he manages.
By Ezra Stepanek
Bruna Ferreira tried to go into her conversations with the people living around Atlantic Forest State Park without expectations.
By Kristen Pope
Chip Jenkins, Superintendent of Grand Teton National Park, knows he has to pay attention to what happens beyond his park’s borders.
By Ben Goldfarb
By Katie Doyle
Last winter, I stepped out of a cable car packed with people and onto a volcano in the Canary Islands, staring speechless at the North Atlantic Ocean 12,000 feet below.
By Christine Peterson
No one knew why the deer were losing weight, struggling to stand, and then keeling over, dead.
By Birch Dietz Malotky
When the University of Wyoming brought together a couple dozen managers and researchers from around the world to visit the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and discuss international wildlife policy, one reaction stands out to me above all others: “For better or worse, it’s nice to see that you’re dealing with the same issues we are.”
Perspective by Ashlee Lundvall
One August morning in 1999, I swung my legs out of my bunk and pulled on a stiff, new pair of Wrangler jeans. I was at a teen camp in Wyoming, and I had chores to complete before we left that afternoon on a backpacking trip. Little did I know that day would be the last day I stood on my own.
Text and photographs by Katie Hargrave and Meredith Lynn
Captions by Birch Malotky
As tent campers and national parks enthusiasts, we spend a lot of time in the company of Airstreams, Winnebagos, and Jaycos, and have come to appreciate that for many, the RV makes a kind of relationship to nature possible.
By Kristen Pope
Jackson, Wyoming, is famous for its amazing outdoor access, but finding an affordable place to live there is a perpetual struggle.
By Cecilia Curiel
For the last several years, Shonto Greyeyes of the Diné (Navajo) Nation has made his living in some of the Southwest’s most sought-after landscapes—
