Emily Sohn

09.11.2019

Emily Sohn

Emily Sohn

Emily Sohn is a freelance journalist in Minneapolis whose stories have appeared in National Geographic, Outside, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Nature, NPR, and many other publications.

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Hooded grebe in Patagonia

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A Grand Experiment on the Grasslands 03.13.2018 Immersive - A decades-long debate over protection of the lesser prairie-chicken could usher the Endangered Species Act into a new and very different era.

A northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis) surveys its territory along the Pacific Northwest coast.

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