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The Wilderness Act at 50: Where the Carnivores Are

By Cristina Eisenberg / On August 26th, 2014
Editor's note: September 3 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Wilderness Act. To commemorate the anniversary, we asked a small group of Island Press authors to reflect on the influence of this law to date and how its role may or should change as we move into an uncertain future. We'll be sharing these posts over the next two weeks. Fifty years ago, Congress created the Wilderness Act, which today protects nearly 110 million acres of United States lands.
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Wolves in a Tangled Bank

By Cristina Eisenberg / On April 14th, 2014
Elk browsing aspens in Yellowstone National Park. Photo by Cristina Eisenberg.
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Ghost Trees

By Cristina Eisenberg / On July 10th, 2012
The standing dead trees were everywhere, their boles weathered silver where the bark had peeled. The carcasses of their fallen comrades littered the understory, with few aspen sprouting from the deadfall. The occasional mangled saplings we observed provided graphic evidence of heavy elk browsing. Recently, I explored this stand of ghost trees on Colorado’s High Lonesome Ranch (HLR), accompanied by some of the finest aspen ecologists in North America.

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