This visual essay in "The Photographer's Frame" investigates the potential of using experiential learning in the National Park System to mitigate the repetition of harmful societal practices, such as relying on destructive conflict to resolve differences of opinions and beliefs.

This visual essay in "The Photographer's Frame" explores how Americans’ love affair with road trips made a marriage of national park scenic landscapes and automobiles nearly inevitable—and has helped, literally, drive climate change.

This visual essay in "The Photographer's Frame" says that he first step to resolving humanity’s greatest existential threat, the current climate breakdown, may be as simple as “read Earth’s operating manual.”

This visual essay in "The Photographer's Frame" draws on the example of highway accident triage to apply principles of "Protect—Assess—Act" to the climate change crisis as a way people can build hope over hopelessness.

Bahaman coral reefs have been on a steady decline since the 1900s, following the arrival of Europeans to the islands. Conditions have only worsened since, with the primary cause being overfishing. Overfishing depletes fish stocks and denies corals the interaction with functional groups that are necessary for their health. Without a strong herbivorous contingent of fish, reefs have slid into a macro algal trophic level that is difficult to reverse. This study focuses on the extent of overfishing of reef species by foreign boats in the Bahamas. It also considers contribution foreign boaters make to the local economy and their willingness to pay for conservation measures. With estimates of the amount of seafood recreational boaters and local commercial fishermen catch, a comparison is made about their relative contribution to the overfishing problem. A determination of boater’s spending provides an estimate of their contribution to the local economy. The willingness to pay for reef conservation and moorings indicates whether more money can be extracted for marine conservation projects. The study was conducted in the Exumas, a group of out islands southeast of Nassau that are representative of the reef degradation and development found throughout the Bahamas.