News and stories from science-based conservation research that supports the heart of Reconnection Ecology®: that every living being matters.

Earthfire’s first obligation is the care of our animals. The next is to share the incredible, unsuspected capacities they have and how much they are like us in their emotional...

This year will be 25 years, a quarter century since we founded Earthfire, and the insights and surprises keep coming. Some of them are not new insights, so much as...

On November 15, 2022, I stood on a high ridge south of Tucson, AZ. I was on a field trip with the board and staff of Wildlands Network, a US-based...

Have you heard about all of the exciting, cutting-edge discoveries that support a healthy, thriving Earth? Probably not. Media reports about environmental disasters, climate change damage, and bad news in...

Millions of miles of fencing is used across the US to contain livestock and define property boundaries. Much of this fencing does not take into account the migration routes of...

For more than 100 years it grew, gracing the home of the people who planted and gave life to it. It added a note of beauty and peace to the...

For those of us who love wolves and know how critical they are to the health of many ecosystems, this year’s wave of government-sanctioned wolf hunts in states across the...

Some 20 years ago, I wrote this article while trying to save part of a wildlife corridor in danger of being lost to development. I didn’t succeed, but hope springs...

I wrote this article a few years ago in an attempt to save the vital South Leigh Creek wildlife corridor adjacent to Earthfire land. It is a vital passage for...

Renée Lertzman, PhD, joins us from her home in Marin County, California, north of San Francisco. For 30 years, Renée has been building a practice that applies psychological insights to...
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