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Monk’s Mound, the largest remaining mound at Cahokia Mounds State Historical Site. (Photo copyright 2019, Chris Madson, all rights reserved) STRANGE HOW THE CURRENTS OF TIME EBB AND FLOW. Not long ago, I found myself on the Mississippi River floodplain, just across from the bluffs of Jefferson Barracks, . . . → Read More: The rhymes at Cahokia Beaver Falls on the Olin Nature Preserve near Alton, Illinois. (Photo copyright 2019, Chris Madson, all rights reserved) TWO HUNDRED YARDS TO THE BEND IN THE LANE, ANOTHER 200 DOWN THE HILL AND ACROSS THE PASTURE. AND WE WERE THERE. In the adult world, it was a 300-acre tract . . . → Read More: A place to be wild Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi), an endangered species in the Southwest. (Controlled situation). (Photo copyright 2016 by Tim Christie, all rights reserved). IT’S FAR BETTER THAN THE OLD-FASHIONED CELL HIS GRANDPARENTS LIVED AND BRED IN TWENTY YEARS AGO. HERE, AT least, he can feel the sun on his back, roll in . . . → Read More: The wilderness within Pronghorn herd near the Granite Mountains, Wyoming. In 1922, there were about 30,000 pronghorns in the American West. Thanks to enlightened management in several states, the populations had risen to 380,000 by 1964. (Photo copyright 2015, Chris Madson, all rights reserved) ON FEBRUARY 1, 1902, DAN NOWLIN BECAME CHIEF GAME WARDEN . . . → Read More: Building the better bureaucracy Deer hunter on Beaver Rim, Wyoming. (Photo copyright 2017, Chris Madson, all rights reserved) ABOUT A WEEK AGO, A WOMAN ON FACEBOOK POSTED A DECEPTIVELY SIMPLE QUESTION: “WHY DO MEN HUNT?” I DON’T THINK she intended to be provocative, but whether she wanted to start a heated argument or not, she . . . → Read More: Why I hunt Trumpeter swans at Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge in northwestern Missouri. (Photo copyright 2017, Chris Madson, all rights reserved) IN 2001, THREE LUMINARIES OF THE WILDLIFE PROFESSION, VALERIUS GEIST, SHANE MAHONEY, AND JOHN ORGAN, were called upon to consider the role hunting has played in the development of wildlife conservation in . . . → Read More: Holes in the Model The great egret, one of several species of wading birds that were pursued for their plumes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Frank Bond was a major influence in the protection of these birds and the establishment of the national wildlife refuge system. (Photo copyright 2016, Chris Madson, all rights reserved) . . . → Read More: For the birds Burrowing owl west of Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo copyright 2016, Chris Madson, all rights reserved) A WHILE BACK, I FOUND MYSELF IN A HOTEL CONFERENCE ROOM WITH THE BLINDS DRAWN, GLASSES AND PITCHERS OF WATER ON the draped tables, a projector for Powerpoint presentations, a flip chart and magic markers in the . . . → Read More: A part or apart? Rebirth Pilot and Index peaks in the Absaroka Wilderness in northwestern Wyoming. (Photo copyright 2018 by Chris Madson, all rights reserved) AT ITS HEART, COMMUNICATION REQUIRES TWO THINGS: SOMEONE TALKING AND SOMEONE WILLING TO LISTEN. A PARTICULARLY artful communicator may beguile a few more passersby to join the audience in the . . . → Read More: The land ethic in the twenty-first century: Part IV What happened? Drilling rig in the Green River basin, Wyoming. (Photo copyright 2015, Chris Madson, all rights reserved) AS THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION DOES EVERYTHING IT CAN TO VITIATE THE NATION’S ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS, GUT FEDERAL agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, roll back regulations intended to protect our air and water, accelerate . . . → Read More: The land ethic in the twenty-first century: Part III |
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