Wild Earth Magazine

Launched in 1991 by renowned conservation biologist Michael Soulé and his colleagues, Wild Earth magazine became the flagship publication of The Wildlands Project—the organization that would later evolve into today’s Wildlands Network.

For more than a decade, Wild Earth served as a bold and visionary voice for deep ecology, large-landscape conservation, and the rewilding of North America. Its pages featured essays, scientific analysis, and powerful storytelling that reimagined what conservation could be: not simply protecting isolated wild places, but restoring and reconnecting entire ecosystems.

Guided by editors and contributors such as Reed Noss, Dave Foreman, John Davis, and Michael Soulé, Wild Earth inspired a generation of scientists, advocates, and readers to think on a continental scale.

After its final issue in 2004, the spirit of Wild Earth lived on as the organization shifted its focus toward advocacy, science-based planning, and on-the-ground efforts to build wildlife corridors and protect ecological connectivity across the continent.

Today, Wild Earth’s legacy endures in everything Wildlands Network does. The ideas that filled its pages continue to shape the modern movement to rewild North America.