Russian nature articles by Fred 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)

View at sunset from Barguzinsky Zapovednik, across Lake Baikal, to mountains on far shore above Baikalo-Lensky Zapovednik (photo Strebeigh)

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Valley of the Geysers, Kronotsky Zapovednik, Kamchatka (photo Strebeigh)

Hiking Russia’s Geyser Valley

Originally published in BBC Travel, 12 February 2014
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Русская версия (Russian version) [April/апрель 2014]

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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)

Environment Yale cover photo, Kronotsky Zapovednik, Kamchatka (photo Igor Shpilenok)

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10-week-old Siberian cranes, waiting for water striders, Oksky Zapovednik (photo Strebeigh)

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)

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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, Audubon, BBC, New Republic, Reader's Digest, Russian Life, Sierra, Smithsonian, the New York Times Magazine, the books division of the National Geographic Society,
and also the op-ed pages of Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, and the New York Times. 

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