Perspective from one of the longest, largest and most comprehensive seabird monitoring efforts in the world.
Sarah Gilman
Sarah has covered the West's natural resources, politics and people since 2006. She writes and draws from Portland, Oregon. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Hakai Magazine, BioGraphic, Adventure Journal Quarterly and others. She was a staff and contributing editor at High Country News for 11 years. She grew up in Boulder, Colorado and has spent most of her adult life in small towns in the Rockies, studying white-crowned sparrows, reporting for newspapers and magazines and working on a trail crew. Her favorite tool — from her days building steps and retaining walls on the slopes of Mount Massive outside Leadville — is the double jack. These days, she's also especially partial to her 8-lb. maul.
Alaska’s St. Matthew Island has had its share of human visitors, but none can remain long.
‘Floating Coast,’ the first comprehensive history of the Bering Strait, offers a lesson in ecological economics.
Despite decades of research, myth and fear still surround the animals.
To understand the evolving marine environment, scientists look to the seabirds.
Joe Wilkins’ debut novel looks at male relationships, public lands, rural class and political divisions.
Community and relationships are an integral part of arbor life.
Yellow cedars are suited to damp coastal Alaska. So what are they doing in the desert?
Amid a desolate mess in Cisco, Utah, a young woman resurrects a home.
The saga of O-Six lays bare the intricacies of a familiar, parallel society in wolves.
A writer trades in the ‘crack-me-open ache of space’ in Colorado for the lushness of western Oregon.
Through a tangle of corruption and overfishing, a marine species hangs in the balance.
How the eclipse makes you understand space, and why we should pay attention to lesser wonders.
How trail designer Loretta McEllhiney protects mountains from people.
A new book features characters who have gone far beyond what most of us consider ‘good enough.’
In a place no one can see you, you can see yourself more clearly.
Court showdown may force the agency to reconsider its Pacific Northwest logging goals.
In the backcountry, an experiment in using art to elevate environmental issues.
Some activists see the Pacific Northwest as a major new front in the climate fight.
Cities take a new tack to fight pollutants: targeting companies who make them.
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