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The Long Nose of Destiny
A quest inspired by the natural story of the movie “Roxanne”
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A long-forgotten class struggle over nature in Wyoming
Emotions and facts at the 1948 hearings over a Lake Solitude dam
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Advertising wilderness
How advertising shaped the national park system, and whether wilderness needs a market
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The visionary farmer who replaced nature with industry
A natural history of Thomas Campbell, who built America’s biggest wheat farm
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June 2024

Can capitalism save the climate?
In which our hero, on the biggest stage of his life, decides to take an unpopular stand for the environment
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Flimsy metal baskets
What does it mean for people to live in wilderness?
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Preservation, Conservation, and the Calaveras Big Trees
The 1899 collaboration of John Muir and Gifford Pinchot
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I been there
A story of one person’s interaction with landscape as place and home
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May 2024

Carrie Strahorn and the Flying Centaur of Yellowstone
The Art of Travel in the face of 1879 obstacles including rampant mansplaining
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The nature of a technology story
Nature is the opposite of technology, and threatened by it—and shaped by it (…as AI demonstrates)
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Boundaries
Is nature the same on either side of the Wilderness sign?
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Dog poop and the moral abyss
Meeting Dostoyevsky in remote Wyoming
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