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Nature preserves are so much about the wildlife. Visitors are like houseguests. They’re welcome as long as they respect the house rules: stay on trails, give creatures their space and leave no trace. jesikah maria ross says nature might be better served if the guests felt more at home. “You don’t care for a place […]

Henry David Thoreau once famously said, “In wildness is the preservation of the world,” and environmentalists to this day invoke the declaration as an article of faith. But is it true? The celebrated 19th century hermit-philosopher himself might have second thoughts had he been able to join my colleague Shahla Farzan and I on a […]