Published 09.30.23 under Environment for The Washington Post
Printed front page of newspapers environment section
BOWMAN COUNTY, N.D. — There’s a stretch of Kim Shade’s ranch in the North Dakota Badlands where he used to look for a peculiar long-billed bird from the seat of his saddle. Now, all he sees there is a road leading to an oil rig.
“I used to see quite a few of them,” the cowboy said, of the speckled, chicken-size bird called a long-billed curlew. The curlew’s absence is unsettling, he said. … Read the full story
JULES STRUCK 