Earthfire Stories

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

Three wolves silhouetted against an image of the moon and stars

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...

Killdeer

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...

A line of shipping containers marking the border between the US and Mexico in a hilly, arid landscape

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...

Black and yellow Swallowtail butterfly on a red and yellow flower growing up through a crack in the sidewalk

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...

Brown wooden fencing with inset hotwire runs through a field surrounded by mountains

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...

Old willow tree with new growth

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...

Wolf standing on a small rise beside some trees

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...

Fish swimming in water above rocks

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...

Gray and white owl on a dead tree

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...

Double exposure of a woman's silhouette against a sunrise
A Conversation with Renee Lertzman

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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