Joan Hamilton

Still racing after all these years Biologist Ken Nussear with a species that has little use for the golf courses, housing tracts, and casinos that are replacing its native habitat. ON A COOL OCTOBER DAY, we're standing at 11,500 feet on Mt. Jefferson. Range after range of Nevada mountains sprawl to the east. A herd of bighorn sheep trots by in the gray-brown valley below.

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The Grove of Old Trees sits on a hill in Sonoma County in full view of the ocean. “This is where I come to chase the fog,” says Emily Burns. But on this day in March, her prey is elusive. Buttercups gleam in the sunshine beside a fortress of redwoods scraping an azure sky. Burns has been studying this 28-acre remnant old-growth forest for almost a decade—especially the plants’ relationship with the area’s bounteous, bone-chilling fog.