![Santa Fe Critter Cam Gallery](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Santa Fe Critter Cam Gallery/Thumbnail.e8848ad9.jpg)
by Debra Denker
Great critter cam photos are a matter of luck rather than photographic skill — although a little bit of editing magic can turn a mediocre photo into a great one.
Read more![An excerpt from the cli-fi novel Weather Menders](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Fiction/An excerpt from the cli-fi novel/Thumbnail.9e8bb0dd.jpg)
by Debra Denker
I conceived Weather Menders during a very hot summer visit to the UK in 2013. I had been looking forward to escaping the heat that in recent years has become characteristic of Santa Fe summers by going…
Read more![Seeking Solace on Horseback: Riding Keeps Me Sane During Pandemic](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Seeking Solace/Thumbnail.53f99fe1.jpg)
by Debra Denker
On the first day of autumn, I’m riding through a changing forest — tall, deep green ponderosas interspersed with the butter-gold of aspens, and shrubs ranging from pale crimson to deep russet to coral…
Read more![Protecting the Arctic Refuge: Gwich’in People Defend the Sacred](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/Protecting the Arctic Refuge/Thumbnail.a6d97ced.jpg)
by Debra Denker
It’s obvious that something is very wrong with the land before our plane even lands in Fort Yukon, Alaska, known to its indigenous Gwich’in inhabitants as Gwich’in Zhee.
Read more![In the Wake of Dolphins](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Field Notes/In The Wake of Dolphins/Thumbnail.87c19665.jpg)
by Debra Denker
The pod of five dolphins gracefully, effortlessly, swims past me, perhaps a dolphin-length away. Entranced, I simply follow. Dolphins swim with powerful vertical thrusts of their tails, and for a few moments…
Read more![Q and A with Daniel Hudon](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/Q and A with Daniel Hudon/dusky_seaside_sparrow-400x400.3c7affc4.png)
by Kira Johnson
I used to be involved in a team-taught course at Boston University called Biodiversity: Causes and Consequences. I gave two lectures: one on the fossil evidence of biodiversity and another on the history…
Read more![Things We Don’t See in the Woods](assets/media/images/Galleries/Things We Don't See in the Woods/Thumbnail.jpg)
by Ron Dans
I began my photographic journey around the age of 14, when my parents gave me a 120 Yashika camera. I was fascinated to see the upside-down image on the ground glass, and even more astounded when the prints…
Read more![Everyday Extinction: Q&A with Sean Gallagher](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/Everyday Extinction/Thumbnail.c2ef37d6.jpg)
by Kira Johnson
As extinction quietly steals earth’s species, photographer and filmmaker Sean Gallagher is tapping into the popularity of social media to bring global attention to the crisis.
Read more![Bobcats in the Hood](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Bobcats in the Hood/Thumbnail.b2569926.jpg)
by Debra Denker
As I open my garden gate on an uncharacteristically sultry Southwest summer afternoon, I hear a growl, a thump and then scrabbling in the Russian olive tree above me. I round the corner and come face to…
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