Wild Living Guide – The Ranger Desk

Thinking Of Speaking Out? Here Are The Questions To Ask

“Does anyone want to hear what I have to say?” or “Can I really make an impact?” are the wrong questions. Here are the right ones.

Travel, novel experiences, and nature have all been shown by science to have a beneficial impact on our mental health.

Research has shown that in a mature forest plants don’t compete: they collaborate. We must learn to share like forests do.

The Trump Administration wants to eliminate hundreds of America’s national historical and cultural parks. Here’s why.

What’s in my bag? As a former national park ranger, here’s what I take for a day hike, including a few items that might surprise you.

To build a wall in parks–that was the threat the first time Donald Trump was president. Now he is threatening the parks themselves.

Play: it’s not just for kids–it’s for adults, too. Research shows that play combats depression. Discover ways to add play to your life.

Five reasons to be hopeful about climate change–the global outlook for climate action is no longer doom and gloom and here’s why.

How to talk to climate change deniers about climate change, including reasons to hope and when to give up and move on.

People are not a plague on the Earth. We are not a disease; we are ill, infected with a sense that we are not natural, that we don’t belong.