LAURA SCHEER
As the new stewards of the National Bison Range, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are looking to the future with a vision for continued conservation, bolstering the herd, improving the landscape and telling the story of why the bison and the land they live on is so important to their culture and history.
âOur vision is to continue to keep it as is, and maybe enhance the bison that we see there, as well as managing the other species that are there, predominantly rocky mountain elk,â said Rich Janssen, head of the CSKT Natural Resources Department, this week. He said theyâre also looking to improve nutrition value of the vegetation on the land used for grazing. âWe want to keep them doing what theyâre doing, which is being wild animals.â
Today’s post celebrates some of the highlights from TNOC writing in 2020. These contributions originating around the world were one or more of widely read, offering novel points of view, and/or somehow disruptive in a useful way. All 1000+ TNOC essays and roundtables are worthwhile reads, of course, but what follows will give you a taste of 2020’s key and diverse content. Which is not entirely about Covid, although it could have been.
Check out highlights from previous years: 2019, 2018,2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012.2020 was difficult. Heartbreaking. I am sure everyone reading this has been battered by COVID. We all have lost people. So much of what we love about cities performing arts, restaurants, diverse communities, employment…life has been gutted. I hear us talk about nature coming back, and the value of parks, and yet…and yet there has been so much human devastation. Now that we have seen how our cities around the world truly function at their most vulnera