Wildways And Their Champions
Places still wild are so because of champions. These heroic individuals often include people who dedicate their lives to protecting or restoring or
reconnecting the lands they love; and the heroes always include animals, plants, and other life-forms that depend on and enrich the wild places.
Wildlands and their Champions includes articles by and interviews of the human champions who are defending the wild champions.
Here will live many of the podcasts we will do from interviews in the field with advocates for critical wild cores and habitat linkages. Here, too, will be described (in articles, podcasts, and videos) some of the brave adventures of the next generation of conservation leaders.
The Oostvaardersplassen: A Moral Grey(lag) Zone?
The release of large herbivores into the Oostvaardersplassen, a 22-square-mile polder in the Netherlands, was one of Europe’s most controversial[...]
Episode 172: “Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller” with Miriam Horn
Summary In 1959, George Schaller entered the Virunga Mountains with nothing but a notebook and a folding chair. At a[...]
In the Pantheon of Wildlife Heroes: Meet George Schaller
Book review of Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller by Miriam Horn. Penguin Press, 2026.[...]
Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone: Controversy and Change in an Iconic Ecosystem
Book review of Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone: Controversy and Change in an Iconic Ecosystem by Robert B. Keiter. Chicago:[...]
Episode 171: The Hidden Universe of Springs with Larry Stevens
Dr. Larry Stevens is the curator of ecology at the Museum of Northern Arizona and the director of Springs Stewardship[...]
Surtsey: A Case Study in “Self-Willed Land”
Dave Foreman often reminded us that “wilderness” means “self-willed land” — land where natural processes are left alone to unfold[...]