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Some articles by Fred Strebeigh:

PictureView at sunset from Barguzinsky Zapovednik, across Lake Baikal, central Siberia, to mountains on far shore above Baikalo-Lensky Zapovednik (Strebeigh)
Russia's Nature Saviors

(Originally published without photographs as

"Lenin's Eco-Warriors:
Russia’s huge nature reserves are an unlikely Soviet legacy — thanks to the environmental activists who fought to preserve them"

by Fred Strebeigh
 
​New York Times, 7 August 2017

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Спасители Русской
​Природы


Русская версия (Russian version)


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Valley of the Geysers, Kronotsky Zapovednik [Strebeigh]
Hiking Russia’s Geyser Valley   
Kronotsky Zapovednik, Kamchatka, Russia

Originally published in BBC Travel, 12 February 2014   

We had left the brown bears below us in the Valley of the Geysers, where they ambled among purple orchids, emerald grasses and the second-largest gathering of geysers on Earth . . . . 



 "Поход в российскую Долину гейзеров":
Русская версия (Russian version) [April/апрель 2014]

Defending Russian Wilderness

In the Nation That Holds One-Eighth the Habitable Globe, Love of
Nature Is Reaching the Peaks of Power


Originally published in EnvironmentYale, fall 2010

Русская версия (Russian version)
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Where Nature Reigns

Russia’s underfunded yet vast ecological reserves are rich with brown bears, wild honey--and rare humanity.

Originally published in Sierra, March-April 2002

Русская версия (Russian version)

The Wheels of Freedom:  Bicycles in China

Originally published in Bicycling, April 1991


. . . She appeared at my right shoulder, her face inches from mine.  We were cycling together, though I had
never seen her before. We rode
side-by-side through the city of Beijing, and around us streamed thousands of
bicycles with red banners flying. 
Beijing was in revolt.  And
as we rode together we broke the law.
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Letters from Selborne

Gilbert White, Selborne, and the Dawn of Natural History
    Originally published in Audubon,
November 1988

Dispatched to London over "rocky hollow lanes" two centuries ago, the Reverend Mr. White's observations would change forever the way that people wrote, thought, and looked upon the natural world.



Defining Law on the Feminist Frontier

Originally published in New York Times Magazine, October 6, 1991

This article for the New York Times Magazine began my reporting for Equal: Women Reshape American Law (W. W. Norton, 2009).  I tell part of the story of its origin in the acknowledgments section of the book (excerpted in the acknowledgments section of www.EqualWomen.com). 
-- Fred Strebeigh

(For other articles linked to Equal, please click here.)
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Click on Cape Pembroke lighthouse photo above for photo gallery.

Falkland Islands
(two articles and a photo gallery)


A Lonely But Free Life
At the Southern Edge of the World

The Falkland Islands are about as remote as a place can be, but
most who live there wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
by Fred Strebeigh
Originally published Smithsonian, September 1981.)

Falkland Islanders' Future

by Fred Strebeigh
Originally published on the op-ed page of the New York Times, April 6, 1982.
(The Falklands were invaded by Argentina on April 2, 1982.)

Photo gallery, Falklands Islands, 1978


Training China's New Elite

American education seems bound to have a significant impact on the People's Republic of China, which is sending the cream of its intelligentsia and the children of its leaders here to study in record numbers.


"AT THE NEW YORK TIMES, IN AN OAK-PANELED AND stained-glassed seminar room that seems to have been lifted from Princeton or Yale, thirteen scholars from the People's Republic of China are meeting . . . ."

by Fred Strebeigh

Originally published in the Atlantic, April 1989.
1989AtlanticChina

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Volunteer with Great Baikal Trail, NGO based in Irkutsk, in Barguzinsky Zapovednik (nature reserve) on Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia (Strebeigh)


More articles

(More articles will be posted in future.)

Fred Strebeigh teaches writing at Yale in the Department of English
and the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.   He has written for publications including Atlantic Monthly, Audubon, New  Republic, Reader's Digest, Smithsonian, and the New York Times Magazine.

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