I've always said that the best wolf habitat resides in the human heart. You have to leave a little space for them to live. Ed Bangs It was a warm day in July, perhaps 2004 or 2005. The sky was clear, winds light. A perfect day to hike, and a perfect day to scout …
An Earthbound Education
I was a wild child. My "coming up" was rich with imaginative outdoor play, and through a mix of scouting, camps, family influences, backyard mischief, and time at grandpa's farm, I came into young adulthood with a healthy starter-dose of ecological literacy―and one helluva love affair with the natural world. A quarter-century later, the burning …
The Month of Public Lands
"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself." …
Hiking Home Ground
Where does your wildness come from? After many wild roamings, a writer finds hope and wildness on backyard trails in her suburban hometown.
A “Ding” Darling of a Refuge
The alligator’s scaled back barely breaches the surface of a still backwater pond in J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge (NWR). Wary of my presence, this ancient reptile slips beneath the surface and melts into the pond’s murky depths. The long-legged wading birds foraging nearby raise their heads and consider their options. Most of them …
Writing the Wild 