After Miguel Ordeñana discovered mountain lion P-22 in urban LA, he became a key advocate for habitat connectivity, which is essential for the species’ survival in Southern California.
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May 1, 2022
In this issue, we examine habitat connectivity through the eyes of two very different California residents: P-22, the mountain lion that found an unlikely home in LA’s Griffith Park, and Miguel Ordeñana, who has spent his life studying urban wildlife. Can a wildlife crossing help P-22 and LA’s other wild inhabitants? We ponder how place names connect human beings to landscape and consider how Russia’s war in Ukraine might affect the Western U.S. Recently appointed BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning talks about her beleaguered agency, which has too often failed to protect the lands it manages. A California sheriff’s enthusiasm for policing environmental crimes sparks accusations of xenophobia from Hmong Americans. A Cherokee professor dissects the popular series ‘Yellowstone,’ and Vauhini Vara talks about her novel, ‘The Immortal King Rao.’ A young writer questions parenthood amid climate change, and a runner seeks access to public spaces in developed neighborhoods. This issue welcomes poetry back to HCN ’s pages and features a stunning portfolio of Richard Misrach’s extraordinary new photographs.
Feature
The weird wonderful world of the negative image.
Reportage
The eliminated policy was designed to keep the public in the loop about new cell towers.
Law enforcement takes center stage in Siskiyou County’s fight over who can, and can’t, use land and water.
54 million acres of federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management aren’t meeting the agency’s own land-health standards.
Western landscapes and their names are stratified with personal memories, ancestral teachings, mythic events and colonial disturbances.
Editor's Note
The work ahead will require more collaboration and less divisiveness.
Facts & Figures
Putin’s military moves — and the globe’s response to them — have unexpected consequences for the region.
Essays
A walk through the Quinault rainforest leads to a cascade of questions.
A runner in Ojai, California, considers how access to public space isn’t necessarily a given.
Conversation
Tracy Stone-Manning discusses how the federal agency sees conservation, the climate crisis and the Indigenous history of public lands.
When tech companies rule the world, what could go wrong?
Perspective
We don’t share land here.
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Dear Friends
The readers have spoken, and our poetry editor speaks.
Poetry
After Agnes Martin
Letters
Comments from readers.
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