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Jen Landon: Actor and Traveler

Our next Women’s Trailblazer is actor Jen Landon. Driven by a passion for the open road, her travels inspire both her onscreen and offscreen worlds.

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Field Notes

Western Wolves Swept Up In Culture Wars

Many animals kill for a living, but wolves compete with Homo sapiens in that they eat elk, deer, moose, and sometimes livestock. The debates about wolves are in part about biology, economics, and disagreements over the consequences of having wolves on the land. But the debate also reveals how much we are willing to share, and how we see our place in the world.

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wolf stands in snowy field in front of pine trees

Profiles

In the Company of Wolves

Look across the valley and you’ll see old fence posts that mark the corners of properties, they collect the bleached skulls of field mice left by hawks who see fence posts not as boundary markers but as windows into a world free from want. You see, mice fuel hawks so that the observant rancher might

wintery homestead and barn stands at the foot of two tall snow-covered mountains

Profiles

A Yellowstone Coexistence

Four generations have lived here. The old schoolhouse stands where it has for nearly a century, a totem of those who came, laid roots, and grew families deep in the heart of the Greater Yellowstone basin. This place, in many ways, has retained a pulse of wildness that once poured across North America. This is

brown, wet plain leads to tetons on an overcast day

Field Notes

A Traveling Tradition: Halley and Bobbe Hit the Road

Halley Roberts is a photographer based in Portland, Oregon. No stranger to the outdoors and to travel, Halley and her mother Bobbe Besold took to the road — revisiting one of their favorite family traditions. When I was five years old, my mother Bobbe plopped me, my books, The Talking Heads, Paul Simon and our