Have a good weekend everybody. For anybody who likes good nature writing at length, with news and color and history and surprises, here’s a good one with which to spend some time.
In the year-end Dec. 26 – January 8 issue of High Country News, the non-profit almost-bi-monthly published in Paonia, Colo, Emilene Ostlind has the results of her three-year effort to watch migrating herds of pronghorn in action. It runs with spectacular photos by an equally stubborn photographer, Joe Riis.
It’s not slam-dunk easy to read it on line, there being a subscriber wall. But this terrific (if ever-struggling) publication does let the curious sample the goods with a 30-day free trial subscription. I’d recommend all who like long-form feature writing from the great outdoors, full of news and policy-pertinent edge, to pony up for the pay version.
The story is part of a package, filling out a larger theme of wildlife corridors and the urgency felt by some that they be preserved before it is too late, and such migrations as this one get stubbed out. Other segments include a story by Mary Ellen Hannibal on the practicalities of and progress toward saving them, and a second by Cally Carswell focussed on the role of foundations and landowners.
The photos are phenomenal. I filched one after reducing its res – for any editors or anybody else out there wanting some of them, here’s Joe Riis’s website.
– Charlie Petit
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