Island Press Field Notes

In this installment of the occasional series, we hear from Reed Noss, author of

Photo by Matthias Weinberger, used under Creative Commons licensing.

Post by David Johns, contributor to Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth. When humans started to farm 12,000 years ago, they began to change the earth in basic ways, pushing aside other species to make room for themselves and those they favored, killing creatures they didn’t want and domesticating others, altering soils and water courses to suit themselves, and generally replacing ecological complexity with simplified landscapes. In seeking to dominate and control patches of the world—and today, th

Otto Fiord, photo by Edward Struzik.