“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” (John Muir, naturalist and conservationist) What happens when a government and rancher-led campaign to eradicate wolves from Yellowstone National Park disrupts the park’s vast ecosystem? Starting in 1926 and for much of the 20th century, the
“A ship of war changed into an angel of mercy, departing on no errand of death, but with the bread of life to an unfortunate and perishing people.” (Rev. R.C. Waterson, Unitarian minister) During the Irish Potato Famine, the United States sent two Navy warships to Ireland loaded with donated provisions to help the starving
“We two farmers can settle the problems of the world faster than diplomats.” (Roswell Garst, farmer and citizen diplomat) In 1959, Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to the United States included a stop at Roswell Garst’s Iowa farm. Garst was an innovator in corn production and the premier of the Soviet Union dreamed of creating a corn
“The way of the canoe is the way of the wilderness and of freedom almost forgotten.” (Sigurd F. Olsen, writer and environmentalist) Consisting of over 1,000 connecting lakes and streams, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota is a unique place for recreation, scientific research, and education. For decades, though, the local economy
“We’re not going out there to take a life. We’re going out there asking for the life of that whale to be presented to us.” (Timothy Greene, Sr., Makah Tribal Chairman) Save the whales or respect the treaty rights and culture of Native Americans? The debate surrounding Makah whaling has served as an interface
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