Film: Protecting the Great Plains
By Alex Hamilton For his first conservation-oriented project, Brooklyn, New York-based photographer and filmmaker Erik Goldstein knew he wanted something big. The American Prairie Reserve (APR) turned out to be that thing—it is big, both physically and symbolically....
Portrait of a Wide Sky
By Hendrikje SchröderMontana. Big Sky Country.Bison herds, counting hundreds of animals, running down a hill in this vast, harsh and extreme environment. In my time on the Prairie, the big, wide open skies of Montana are by far what fascinated me the...
Women’s Sailing “eXXpedition” Joins Microplastics Study
Story and Photos by Jen PateOn November 16, our all-female team, eXXpedition, will set sail across the Atlantic Ocean on a mission to explore the connections between ocean and human health—specifically plastics, toxics and cancer.The Adventurers and Scientists...
100 Trans-Atlantic Sailors Collect Samples for ASC
By Emily Wolfe Before the new year, crewmembers from 100 sailboats are set to collect 600 ocean water samples from a 602,000-square-nautical mile area in the Atlantic Ocean for ASC’s microplastics research. “It’s huge for science, for really getting...
Big Cats, Dark Beaches
By Nikki Mann We spent hours and hours walking a tropical beach in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica… in the dark… without headlamps. As the surf pounded the beach to my left, invisible and insistent, I tried to decide if I looked weak—or,...
SurfEXPLORE Team “Stoked to Collect Data”
Q&A with Surfer Erwan SimonBy Emily Wolfe | Photos by John Seaton Callahan SurfEXPLORE was founded on a beach in Mauritania. After a day of surfing, four friends shared mint tea with their local guide under a traditional nomad Khaïma tent....
Meet the November Landmark Crew
Several members of the September and October Landmark crews are staying on in November, and are joined by three new teammates, Trent, Jennifer and Tony, our first returning crew member. Get to know the new folks: Having grown up on the Kansas prairie,...
The Prairie: Looking Beneath the Surface
Landmark is ASC's groundbreaking project to provide "boots on the ground" support for the American Prairie Reserve management team. Wildlife survey crews consist of skilled outdoors men and women who live and work on Montana's northern Great...
How Many Skier Girls Does it Take…
Story by McKenna Peterson | Photos by KT Miller ... to fill a liter bottle with ocean water from the middle of the Denmark Strait? Six. One to steer the sailboat in the correct direction. One to tack the sails, while navigating an icy deck. Two to fish ocean...
The Beauty in the Details
Story and photos by Crystal DolisIn such an expansive landscape, it isn’t surprising that most people imagine the large and charismatic features of the prairie. The bison, pronghorn, coyotes, raptors; the golden colors of fall and the wind rustling through seas...