Sierra Magazine

1 week ago | sierraclub.org | Lindsey Botts

Since the beginning of the year, President Trump has urged Congress to pass “one big, beautiful bill,” referring to a legislative package that would extend and expand his 2017 tax cuts. Shortly after, some lawmakers began floating the idea of selling public land to help offset those cuts. On Tuesday night, the House Natural Resources Committee delivered on that suggestion, putting forward a legislative package that authorizes the sale of over 11,000 acres of public land in Utah and Nevada.

1 week ago | sierraclub.org | Zack Metcalfe

We'll call him Elder, because there are wolves under his protection and his real name might point people in their direction. Suffice it to say, he belongs to one of the Coast Salish First Nations, and his traditional territory is tucked among the mountains of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland. Elder has never seen Norway, but his homeland is often compared to it—mountains of gray and white, swooping skyward over cobalt fjords.

1 week ago | sierraclub.org | Chloe Berge

The refrain of whinnying horses, the maraca-like shake of a rattlesnake, and the melancholy call of a loon have been woven into myriad 21st-century pop songs. While the integration of these animal sounds hasn’t had much benefit beyond accolades and album sales, that’s changing.

1 week ago | sierraclub.org | Don Lyman

While substitute teaching a few years ago in suburban Boston, I introduced myself to a class of tenth-grade boys. I told them I was a biologist and that my primary area of interest was the study of reptiles and amphibians. "Few things in life give me greater pleasure than flipping over a log or a rock and finding a snake underneath it," I told my teenage charges. "Really?" one student responded, in a Mr.-Lyman-needs to-get-out-more kind of tone.

1 week ago | sierraclub.org | Chloe Berge

How Recognizing Nature as an Artist is Helping Protect ItMusicians are utilizing natural soundscapes to advocate for the conservation of fragile ecosystems