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Posted on December 18, 2017December 18, 2017

Camera Traps and Lynx in the Age of Humans

The attractant made me gag. We had just finished setting up the motion-activated camera in the snowy Montana woods. We were putting the finishing touches to a site that we hoped might lure in an elusive lynx or fisher.  The final task was to suspend from nearby trees a couple of small sponges soaked in …

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Posted on September 1, 2017January 21, 2018

Rewilding on the Rocky Mountain Front

Drive west along U.S. Highway 2 from the town of Browning towards East Glacier and your eyes are summoned upwards towards one of the most remarkable vistas in the United States. In front of you rise the piercing peaks and fractured walls of the Rocky Mountain Front.  The swift transition from rolling grassland to near-vertical …

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Christopher J. Preston is at various times a professor of philosophy, a commercial fisherman, a gardener, an author, and a student of powerful emerging technologies. The most inflated title he ever possessed was Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Ethics of the Anthropocene.

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