Nicole Yeatman

The Storyteller’s Role 

By the time I met Annette Hubbell in person at her sun-dappled home in a San Diego suburb, I’d already watched her on stage:...

Can New York City Force Homeowners to Sponsor Art? 

Before artists moved into SoHo, the neighborhood was known as “hell’s hundred acres,” says photographer David Lawrence. “It was full of warehouses and flop...

Criminalizing Joy: The Dolphin Therapists of Hawaii 

Eliza Wille used to start her therapy sessions by inviting her patients to wade into the crystalline waters off Kona, Hawaii. The ocean was...

Nurse Forced to Pay $50,000 State Fee 

It is a special kind of science: the science of helping someone get well. Some doctors approach it with a sniper’s precision, zeroing in...

Alabama Family Punished for Conservation Efforts

It was the listing that spooked Gray Skipper’s family. If a threatened species is allegedly sighted on your property, it’s game over: You lose the legal ability to use your land the way you want.

Feeding the Homeless

On a gray afternoon at the train station in Newark, New Jersey, a dozen homeless men and women were panhandling when a large man entered the station without any luggage.

The Wild History of the New West

Cecil Andrus, Secretary of the Interior in the Carter administration, stood before a room filled with members of the National Wildlife Foundation. It was...

John Harris, Farmer and Horse Racer

Midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, off I-5 on the Western edge of the San Joaquin Valley, sits Harris Farms and Harris Ranch—a...

There Will Be Rules 

Cameron Edwards wakes up with the sun every morning. His land in Logan County, Kansas, stretches over 7,000 acres purchased by his grandfather and...

Thrown to the Wolves

As the sun slips behind the mountain ridges in Sierra Valley, California, local ranchers fear their livestock won’t survive the night.   Nearly every inch of...

A Red Rock Legacy Under Threat

When you ask Chris Heaton how he feels about the land he works on, his voice changes.   “It’s literally home,” he says simply. “It’s sacred.”  The...

Exploring the West 

John C. Frémont stood on a peak in the Rocky Mountains, dressed in buckskin. It was 1842. Frémont was a roguish Army topographer from Charleston, South Carolina, who had charm, no money, and a scandalous family history.
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