Conservation editor
Imogen Reece has worked on bird-recovery and pest-eradication projects across the Pacific Northwest, Aotearoa, and the Falklands. She edits Field Lantern's Conservation section.
Beats
Gear Tested
Imogen Reece spent two seasons in the Patagonian and Aysén regions with four insulated jackets in rotation. Down won the warmth-to-weight contest. It did not win every contest.
Skills
Before crossing the Hollyford in late autumn, Imogen Reece spent twenty minutes on the bank asking three questions she has asked at every crossing for fifteen years.
Conservation
On the coastal cliffs above the Pembrokeshire path, a small flock of Hebridean sheep is doing the work that machines and herbicides could not.
Field Notes
At the McCargoe Cove shelter on the north shore of Lake Superior's largest island, with wolves audible somewhere across the harbor at 2 a.m.
Weather
The wind a walker meets is often a local wind. A short guide to the three that matter most.
Field Notes
Sandhill crane staging on the central Nebraska river in late March, from a Rowe Sanctuary blind, with a thermos and a notebook.
Conservation
A small Irish charity has spent four years buying turbary rights from individual farmers in order to restore the raised bog at Bellanaboy, one cutting at a time.
Wildlife
A small reintroduction project in the southern Green Mountains of Vermont is producing the first confirmed fisher kits in the region in four decades.
Maps & Routes
Across the United States, the practical maps that hikers carry are not made by the government. They are made by trail associations, mostly by volunteers, often by retirees with cartography software and a willingness to argue about line weights.
Gear Tested
Imogen Reece spent a winter on the Olympic Peninsula and the western Cascades in five hardshell jackets. Two of them held. Two of them did not. One surprised her.
Conservation
Outside Adelaide, a volunteer crew has spent eleven years removing African olive from a single 838-hectare park, and they are not finished.
Wildlife
A three-day American pika survey at 12,400 feet on the talus slopes of the Colorado Front Range, conducted by a small volunteer crew from the Denver Zoo.
Conservation
On a 4,200-acre former cattle ranch in the San Luis Valley, a small crew is pulling fence, plugging gullies, and waiting for the elk to remember the route.