
Crouching Scientist, Hidden Dragonfly
By Amber Furness
A researcher’s quest to protect an endangered dragonfly

Road Noise
By Kristen Pope
Traffic sounds disturb wildlife far beyond the asphalt
Leather-clad motorcyclists cruised around Devils Tower National Monument in August 2015

Repairing a Fragmented Landscape
By Gregory Nickerson
Interstate 80 severed wildlife habitats 50 years ago. Can we reconnect them?


Ernie’s Road
Text and images by Claire Giordano
The engineer behind a lonely desert highway
My mom tells stories of a magic road. It wound from a gleaming blue alpine lake to the desert below. It required no gas, didn’t wear out brakes, and had the most beautiful vistas.

Paving Paradise to Put Up Parking Lots
By Aubin Douglas
Can Western cities grow without displacing their neighboring natural wonders?
My first visit to the Great Salt Lake was a graduate course field trip to the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.

Intersecting Roads
Perspective From Corinna Riginos
The need to value and safeguard wildlife movements
Roads may well be humankind’s greatest source of metaphors, inspiration for a plethora of phrases about journeys and all the bumps, bends, twists, and turns along them.