#13: Prairie Dogs and Conservation Easements on the Chihuahua-Arizona Border
June 25, 2003 :
1. The Largest Prairie-Dog Town On Earth
On March 16, the fam and I set out from Montreal for Chihuahua to see the world’s largest extant prairie-dog town. Its 150,000 residents live on roughly 90,000 acres of shortgrass prairie there. Technically, this is a complex, made up of many interconnected towns, which …Read More
#10: A Report for the J.M.Kaplan Fund on the Transborder Effort to Create Marine Protected Areas in the Gulf of Maine
1. The Ocean As The Last Frontier of Planetary Stewardship
In l997 I wrote a proposal for a long magazine piece about the state of the world’s oceans, part of a series on the state of the environment at the turn of the millennium, that never happened. “I will first head for the pool …Read More
#2: A Report on the Wildlife of Eastern Congo
The original version for the United Nations Foundation
For those who want to go more deeply into the situation in eastern Congo, here is the 26,000-word site report I delivered to the United Nations Foundaton in October of last year. It contains the greatest detail on the status of the parks and their wildlife and on …Read More