Our lives depend on conservation. You’d think it’d make more headlines.
Conservation Works is a newsletter about the difficult, rewarding, crucial, and seriously undercovered work of repairing, protecting, and stewarding the ecosystems that all species need.
I write about what’s working (and what’s not) in conservation today, share new findings from research and on-the-ground experiences, and reflect on where conservation has been and where it’s going. Whether you’re a conservation practitioner or simply care about your fellow species, I hope you’ll find ideas, connections, and purpose in Conservation Works.
What’s the news in your habitat?
Please share your victories, disappointments, and lessons for others in the comments, or send them to me directly. I live in and report on the U.S. West, but I’m interested in conservation news from anywhere and everywhere.
The bit about me
I’m a longtime conservation and environmental journalist and the author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction, a critical history of the modern conservation movement.
I’m proud to be a contributing editor of High Country News, an independent magazine that produces some of the finest journalism in the U.S. West, and the lead editor of its ongoing Conservation Beyond Boundaries series.
My writing has also appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, and I’m a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. After 15 years off the electrical grid in rural Colorado, my family and I now live in Washington State, on the north side of the Columbia River Gorge.
