From An
Age of Extinction, Georg Steller’s sea lion populations have declined by more than 80% because of industrial fishing activities.
Earthjustice legal efforts helped win a court verdict that keeps
ESA protections for the species.
Sam Edmondson relates this voyage back from an age of extinction
Six long weeks in the summer of 1741 have passed without sight of land.
Signs, yes but
Georg Steller, who reads seabirds and seaweed like a map.
They are seamen, though their own maps have failed, and Steller is not.
GEORG STELLER ILLUSTRATIONS
The discovery leads to more discovery as Steller documents numerous plants and animals previously unknown to European science; some of which will bear his name.