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Introducing the Rocky Mountain Wildlife Bridge Company!
US Interstate 70 (I-70) is the major highway right across the middle of America, stretching 2,153 miles (3,465 km) from Maryland to Utah. It is considered a “marvel” in the US Interstate System, and has four sections in the Colorado Rockies that are regarded as...
In the Footsteps of Thesiger
Years ago, in a used book store, I discovered The Marsh Arabs, by Wilfred Thesiger. I devoured it — learning a lot about the cultures of the Shia Muslim tribes who live in the marshlands of the Tigris- Euphrates rivers in SE Iraq along the Iran border —...
A WILD week in Madrid…
People often ask me “What do you actually do? …usually thinking that I must spend all my time in the wild, with wildlife, whatever. Well, though my work is for wildness, it is mostly with people, because that is where the change needs to happen. It is usually slow...
Great News on the Flathead Valley!
Conservation groups announced last week that they have mobilized more than $10 million in public and private funds to protect from mining and oil and gas development the spectacular and internationally important in the Flathead River Valley, a vast wilderness that...
The Great Migration: the Path of the Pronghorn
The WILD staff in Boulder recently took a road trip up to Jackson, Wyoming to meet with our rock star partners in conservation, The Murie Center. Around Laramie, Wyoming the expansiveness of the undeveloped land softened me and I wondered how long it would be until...
Tracks of Giants: Hiking the Horuseb Valley
Hiking up the Horuseb Valley, across the Skeleton Coast, was a lifetime experience. As we turned inland from the coast we saw our first elephant spoor (tracks), those of a large bull that had walked to the coast, turned, and ambled all the way back up the valley. We...
Tracks of Giants: Hiking the Skeleton Coast
1 May 2012 wake-up call at 0500 – it was very dark and damp on the little promontory of Rocky Point, jutting into the Atlantic Ocean on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast. After years of discussion, an announcement of intention during WILD9 (Mexico, 2009), and two years of...
Tracks of Giants: Driving to Rocky Point
30 April, at the base camp in Purros, NW Namibia– We packed for the first 5 days which would be a Wilderness Leadership School type wilderness trail, or trek, that would launch TRACKS on the coast of Namibia, headed east for 5 months to the Indian Ocean. Packed and...
Tracks of Giants: Getting Ready
After meetings in Washington DC in late April, everything was focused on gathering exit speed in the US to head to NW Namibia to join the team members assembling from all points of the compass to launch the Tracks of Giants expedition. As I departed the US on 25...