But private lands development around the periphery of the parks - Grand Teton and Yellowstone - is a crucial issue because if those private lands are….

There was a very important superintendent of Yellowstone, a man who was involved in the founding of the National Park Service itself, Horace Albright….

Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat..

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy..

What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. ….

[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. Tha….

Results "are no good unless they answer (or can be made to seem to answer, or can be twisted and wrenched and piled into odd shapes until they hint a….

Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or th….

To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the damming happens witho….

Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation..

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel..

You can hike into the Yellowstone backcountry. You can camp in the Yellowstone backcountry. You can take food into the Yellowstone backcountry, and y….

And so in 1975, the grizzly bear was put on, as I said - on the endangered species list as threatened. And new measures were taken, for instance, bea….

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it..

Heatstroke is an important and useful addition to the library on climate change, bringing insights from deep-time ecological research to help illumin….

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in i….

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has ….

I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me as a nonfiction writer..

If you're Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya, if you're in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, you don't get out of your vehicle and go walking arou….

Islands are where species go to die..

The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning..