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Black and white photo of young Wendell Berry wearing binoculars.
From the Archives: Wendell Berry's ‘The One-Inch Journey’
September 03, 2026 — Travel to Kentucky's Red River Gorge with Wendell Berry as he eloquently argues for its protection.
From the Archives: Florence Merriam Bailey on How to Conduct Field Classes
June 02, 2026 — How do you get people excited about birds? Apparently the answer hasn't changed all that much in more than a century.
Ducks silhouetted by diffused sunlight float on a tree-lined pond in a dreamy landscape enveloped in fog.
From the Archives: Frank Graham's ‘Of Dreams and Dread'
December 19, 2025 — Transforming the world, fog is the powerful stuff of life and death, great pictures and poems.
From the Archives: Roger Tory Peterson — Artist at Work
July 19, 2024 — Follow along as the renowned bird artist and then-art director for “Audubon” sketches and paints the 1942 November-December cover of the magazine.
Black and white portrait of Rachel Carson outside with binocualars.
From the Archives: Rachel Carson Answers Her Critics
July 19, 2024 — After the publication of “Silent Spring,” Rachel Carson faced fierce blowback from the pesticide industry. This was her response.
Black and white portrait of Aldo Leopold sitting in front of a wood shack looking off to his left.
From the Archives: Aldo Leopold's ‘Conservation Esthetic'
June 26, 2024 — What is the value of outdoor recreation—and how we do use it for the betterment of the environment and wildlife?
My Father's Life List
April 05, 2017 — What drives a man to count birds, to travel to 75 countries to count them, to spend a fortune counting them, and to keep counting them?
From the Archives: The Cranes of Hokkaido, by Peter Matthiessen
April 07, 2014 — A journey to Japan to see the world's largest cranes.
From the Archives: Tsi-lick! Goes the Henslow’s
December 08, 2013 — And other gleanings of an amateur among professionals on the Christmas Bird Count.
From the Archives: Aldo Leopold's ‘Odyssey'
June 12, 2013 — The journey of a single atom paints a compelling portrait of the web of life.