![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 novel Deception at the Diamond D Ranch](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Fiction/Deception at the Diamond D Ranch/Thumbnail.c24114d0.jpg)
by G.R. Stahl
Deception at the Diamond D Ranch is a western mystery published by Coffeetown Press, an imprint of Epicenter Press, in April 2022. This chapter digs into two characters’ relationships with the land and…
Read more![One Loggerhead Turtle’s 30-Year Journey](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/One Loggerhead/IMAGE1-Hatchling%20loggerhead%20%28a%20straggler%29%20crawling%20down%20%20Keedaydin%20Is.%20beach%20Sept.%2010%2C%202012%201.1b68d596.jpg)
by Devin Reese
I got my feet wet in fieldwork as an intern for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in the 1980s. Literally. My feet got wet when my supervisor, biologist Dave Addison, unflappably led me through the…
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![Isolation Is Slow Torture: A Macaw Conservationist in Costa Rica](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Isolation Is Slow Torture/Thumbnail.5ac4318a.jpg)
by Merlin Pratsch
“In the minutes before sunrise on the edge of the Corcovado, a troop of howler monkeys announces the twilight transition from night to day, reminding us that communication is the key to successful communities…
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![Mexico City’s Wildlife](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Mexico City's Wildlife/Thumbnail.69b940c5.jpg)
by Tamara Blazquez Haik
Mexico City is home to approximately 2,254 wildlife species including insects and other arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
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![Wildlife of Akagera](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Wildlife of Akagera/Thumbnail.32214753.jpg)
by Jean Marie Twambaze
Jean-Marie Twambaze is a safari guide at Akengara National Park in Rwanda whose photos showcase the beautiful and diverse wildlife of Rwanda.
Read more![Biodiversity Awareness: A Story of Hope](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/Biodiversity Awareness/Thumbnail.4dad7336.jpg)
by Godelive Ayinkamiye
I am a young Rwandan woman, born and raised in southern Rwanda. As children, my friends and I enjoyed killing bees, birds, butterflies and other small animals. We cut branches off trees and muddied fresh…
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