The Wild Idea That Began in Yellowstone

The first thing Carly Crow remembers is the cold. She was thirteen years old, far from her home in southern Georgia, sleeping in a tent beneath the vast Wyoming sky. The trip was part of a Girl Scouts adventure called Wyoming Wildlife Wonders, a journey that included time in two of the country’s most iconic […]

The Boardwalk

For a few weeks each May, the southern shore of Lake Erie becomes one of the best places in North America to stand still. At the Magee Marsh boardwalk in northern Ohio, warblers move through at eye level, sometimes so close it feels absurd. A male Chestnut-sided Warbler picks through leaves an arm’s length away, […]