Recommended reading, 9/25

Holy cow, is it fall all of a sudden. Time to squeeze in last weeks of trail fun before the snow flies. And when you look up to realize that it’s already dark out and the workday is not yet over, maybe you can hole up with some of these readings.

Jeff

Ian Frazier, “Alaska Through New Eyes,” a review of a rediscovered text by an old favorite, in the New York Review of Books.

Christopher Ketcham, “The Government Won’t Let Me Watch Them Kill Bison, so I’m Suing,” a look into the long-running dispute between managed Yellowstone bison and surrounding ranchers, in Vice.

Jeremy Berlin, “Gran Paradiso,” the transformation — or reclamation? — of a royal Italian hunting retreat into a national park, in National Geographic.

Jeremy Miller, “Wave Goodbye,” on glaciers, drought, climate change, and John Muir on Mount Shasta, from the Harper’s blog.

Alma Guillermoprieto, “Mexico: The War on Journalists,” on the terrifying fate of too many reporters who try to tell the truth about drugs, the border, and governments (maybe not directly mountain-related, but we need good journalists for all kinds of reasons). Guillermoprieto has long been an essential voice on Latin American matters, especially in her native Mexico. In the New York Review of Books blog.

John Schwartz, “As Fires Grow, a New Landscape Appears in the West,” on fires, forest succession, climate change, and other small matters, in the New York Times.