Lois Parshley

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Lois Parshley’s reporting has been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Harper’s, the Atlantic, Granta, National Geographic, and Businessweek, among others. A former Knight-Wallace fellow and National Geographic explorer, her work has won numerous awards.

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REPORTING / Spring 2024

Unnatural Selection

By Lois Parshley , Illustration by Keith Negley

The outsized grandeur of the boreal can still appear so wild, so endless, it’s hard for newcomers to recognize the loss. Each generation’s perception of normal is molded by the environment they encounter, masking the gradual fade, a...