Environment Archives - One Good Story Project

A bald cypress swamp covered in duckweed. This is an illustration of the habitat she studies. It is not a photograph of Jessica Mohlman and shows no people.

Environment Jessica Mohlman Wildlife ecologist Mohlman works with an amphibian almost nobody sees. The bird-voiced treefrog is a small frog that whistles like a bird, and she… Learn more

Bald cypress knees rising out of green swamp water. This is an illustration of the forested wetland he studies. It is not a photograph of John Crawford and shows no people.

Environment John Crawford Principal Scientist and Terrestrial Wildlife Ecologist, National Great Rivers Research and Education Center Crawford's research looks at what habitat alteration and a changing climate do to amphibian populations, with attention to forested wetlands that dry… Learn more

An old metal culvert sitting above the water at the end of a small stream, hemmed in by fallen logs and grass. Nobody is in the picture. It illustrates the kind of barrier this person's work removes and is not a picture of her or of her project.

Environment Anna Halligan Director, North Coast Coho Project, Trout Unlimited NOAA Fisheries named Halligan in its feature of March 26, 2026 on the record coho season. In the same story it reports… Learn more

A rocky stream running between boulders through autumn trees, with a hillside behind. Nobody is in the picture. It illustrates the kind of water a spawning survey covers and is not a picture of this person or of any stream she works on.

Environment Sarah Gallagher Senior Environmental Scientist, California Department of Fish and Wildlife NOAA Fisheries named Gallagher in its feature of March 26, 2026 on the 30,000 adult coho that returned to Mendocino Coast rivers.… Learn more

A tracked excavator and a bulldozer removing the fill of an old logging road on a forested hillside in the Greater Mill Creek watershed, Redwood National and State Parks.

Environment Leonel Arguello Deputy Superintendent, Redwood National and State Parks Leonel Arguello has worked at Redwood National and State Parks since 1988 and oversees Redwoods Rising and the Redwood Creek estuary restoration… Learn more

A young giant sequoia seedling growing among fallen cones, needles and bark on the forest floor.

Environment Zane Moore Doctorate in plant biology, UC Davis, now teaching science Zane Moore holds a doctorate in plant biology from UC Davis for work on redwood longevity, and UC Davis says he has… Learn more

Sarah Bird Environment Sarah Bird Scholar-Artist Fellow, Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University Sarah Bird is an interdisciplinary artist who works with trees as material and method, and a Scholar-Artist Fellow at Justus Liebig University… Learn more

A wide view of rocky pinnacles and wooded ridges in the Chiricahua Mountains of southern Arizona.

Environment Emily Burns Program Director, Northern Sky Islands, Sky Island Alliance Emily Burns is program director for the northern Sky Islands at Sky Island Alliance, and the former science director at Save the… Learn more

A polished cross-section of a redwood trunk with small labels pinned to individual growth rings marking historical dates.

Environment Allyson Carroll Research Associate, Department of Forestry, Fire and Rangeland Management, Cal Poly Humboldt Allyson Carroll is a dendrochronologist at Cal Poly Humboldt who reads redwood tree rings to date tree age, growth, fires and earthquakes. Learn more

Straight, closely spaced second-growth coast redwoods with sunlight coming through the canopy.

Environment Laurie A. Wayburn Co-founder and President, Pacific Forest Trust Laurie A. Wayburn co-founded Pacific Forest Trust and is its president, working to shift forest economics away from timber products and toward… Learn more