Studying Yellowstone’s Burn Scars to Reveal its Future
Nathan Kiel investigates the potential for post-fire forest recovery across the greater Yellowstone ecosystem in a warming world.
Tagged: National Parks
Wilderness Has a Purity Problem
What does it mean for a landscape to be pristine? Ande Peersen reflects on her love of the outdoors and her work for the U.S. Forest Service to interrogate the nature–culture divide.
Badwater (a Kinship Series Essay)
Daegan Miller recounts his close encounter with a buffalo herd and the fraught political history of the Badlands in this essay with audio narration excerpted from Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, a five-volume book series.
Learning to Love Human Traces in Wild Places
A photographer explores an aesthetic that finds beauty in the physical alterations people make to natural landscapes, from Yellowstone to a state park in Ohio.
A Nation’s Shadow at Bears Ears National Monument
In a series of photographs, a scholar and wilderness guide meditates on wild places and the politics of resource extraction in southern Utah.
The Land Doesn’t Hate: A Conversation with Lauret Savoy
A geologist turned award-winning writer reflects on the marks racism has left on the American landscape.
Edgy Stuff: National Parks Centennial Edition
The Edge Effects Editorial Board’s September recommendations feature content on the National Parks from around the web and beyond for the parks’ Centennial.
Wisconsin’s John Muir: An Interview with Michael Edmonds
A traveling exhibit celebrates the life of John Muir and the centennial of the National Parks Service.
A Park Service for Both Bison and Bombs
The centennial of the National Park Service offers a chance to reassess how we view natural and cultural landscapes.
Edgy Stuff: June 2016 Recommendations
Announcing new editors and June 2016 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
