Leath Tonino is the author of The Animal One Thousand Miles Long, a collection of essays about adventures in the Northeast. A second collection, The West Will Swallow You, will be released this fall.
Leath Tonino
Enumeration
25 Things I Will Not Say About Wilderness
I will not say that wilderness is a tonic, balm, or medicine for the troubled soul; that most everyone has a troubled soul in need of moss’s healing touch and birdsong’s Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Middle of Nowhere
THERE IS NO ROAD, hasn’t been a road since Gerlach, that crust of a town where we turned from pavement to playa, to hairline-fractured hardpan Continue reading
Feature
The Doe’s Song
Countless nonhuman lives are lost every day on America’s roadways—what might it take to recognize them? Continue reading
Enumeration
7 Beards from the Conservation Hall of Fame
From Thoreau to Abbey, some of the greatest advocates for wild places have another thing in common: wild whiskers. Continue reading