Doing, Not Doing:

Reflections on Conservation, Wildness, and the Dao by Jason Kirkey

At 5 a.m. I pulled myself out of bed into the still-dark morning. It was late May but cold in the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park as I loaded into a car with three other people and my graduate adviser’s spotting scope. Later this morning I would be driving north with my adviser to a study site in Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta to join…