Terry Tempest Williams’s assertion that beauty is not something granted;rather, we must create in a broken world. What another time I might have dismissed as nothing more than rusting lawn chair, stand of brittle grass, or the moon tangled power lines compelled me to make beautiful images.

Conservation efforts should target the few remaining areas of world that represent outstanding examples ecological integrity and aim to restore a much broader area with intact habitat minimal species loss while this is still possible. There have been many assessments “intactness” in recent years but most these use measures anthropogenic impact at site, rather than faunal intactness or integrity...