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Author of Wild Souls. I write about plants, animals, culture, climate change, & the West.
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Nature’s Helpers

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By Emma Marris Verified
| Sierra Magazine Verified
Editor’s note: This article was originally published by bioGraphic. Sierra is republishing it with permission. It’s May and I’m on a boat in the San Juan Islands, an archipelago in the far northwest corner of Washington State. The clouds are low and the waves are olive green. I am heading to a place that sounds like a fairy tale: an island covered in flowers where just one person lives, all alone, tending the land.
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A dificuldade de medir nossa relação com a natureza

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By Emma Marris Verified
| mittechreview.com.br
Como movimento, o ambientalismo tem sido bastante misantrópico. Compreensivelmente, nós, humanos, fizemos algumas coisas destrutivas aos ecossistemas ao nosso redor. No século 21, porém, a conservação dominante está aprendendo que os humanos podem ser uma força para o bem. Os silvicultores estão recorrendo a práticas indígenas de queima para prevenir incêndios florestais.
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The quest to measure our relationship with nature

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By Emma Marris Verified
| MIT Technology Review Verified
As a movement, environmentalism has been pretty misanthropic. Understandably so—we humans have done some destructive things to the ecosystems around us. In the 21st century, though, mainstream conservation is learning that humans can be a force for good. Foresters are turning to Indigenous burning practices to prevent wildfires. Biologists are realizing that flower-dotted meadows were ancient food-production landscapes that need harvesting or they’ll disappear.
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