Ben Goldfarb

10.09.2019

Ben Goldfarb

Ben Goldfarb

Ben Goldfarb is a Colorado-based environmental journalist whose writing has appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, The New York Times, and many other publications. He is the author of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet and Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Follow him on Twitter @ben_a_goldfarb and read more of his work at www.bengoldfarb.com.

Aerial view of Denver, Colorado, suburb Living in the Sprawl 04.16.2026 News - As housing developments devour open space in the western United States, can local governments stave off habitat loss?
A herd of elk faces off against a wire fence, a common sight in the Colorado mountains and throughout the American West. Photograph by John Boland / Shutterstock Entangled 07.29.2024 Article - Laid end to end, the world’s fences would reach the sun. What are they doing to wildlife?
City of Glass 10.31.2023 Article - Meet the dedicated cadre of experts and volunteers working to protect birds from glass in the window-strike capital of the United States.
With only 100 or so individuals living north of the U.S.-Mexico border, the ocelot is thought to be the most endangered feline in America. Photograph by Aflo/NPL No Country for Old Ocelots 09.20.2023 Article - Can wildlife crossings save America’s most endangered feline?
Methow Valley resident Ken Bevis salvages a deer recently struck by a car. Atonement in the Kitchen 06.03.2022 Article - One way to make sense of the senseless slaughter of roadkill? Salvage it for food.
Migratory fish like these mountain mullet (Agonostomus monticola) are a common sight in Central American rivers. Free-Flowing, For Now 04.09.2019 Photo Essay - Hundreds of new dams are currently planned for Central American rivers, posing a threat to Indigenous peoples and wildlife alike. Preserving the integrity of these corridors between the mountains and the sea will help them both.
Biologists for the Tulalip Tribe carry a beaver toward the site of its reintroduction along a stretch of river in northern Washington. They Will Build It 11.22.2018 Article - In western Washington, the Tulalip Tribes bet big on beavers.
In Search of Suckers 01.03.2017 Article - An endangered fish makes a comeback in the Grand Canyon’s depths—but will the razorback sucker stick around?
Long leaf pine habitat in the gamelands outside Southern Pines, NC. The Birds and the Bombs 06.28.2016 Article - The fate of the Southeast's longleaf pine forests, and the endangered woodpeckers that depend on them, may rest in the hands of the U.S. military.
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