In 2015, I began work on a series of essays exploring extraordinary new work that blends community development, equity and conservation into something new for our nation. In Salinas, California I wrote about efforts to create a new central park honoring the story of immigration, labor, and different peoples’ relationship to place. In Southeast Alaska I wrote about a collaboration between Native communities and conservation groups to build something new out of the end of the timber wars. More recently, I've written about land justice efforts to share and return land.
