Wild, Incisive, Fearless
October 22, 2021
Vanishing: What Are Pikas Trying to Tell Us? Sometimes the smallest animals have the 📢 biggest things to say. For our latest Vanishing essay, writer Laura Dassow Walls treks into the Cascade Mountains, her ear attuned for the eep! eep! of pikas.
Besides being ridiculously cute — and teaching us volumes about how we’re swiftly altering the planet — pikas are also a lesson in survival and resilience.
Read the essay and check out the rest in
the Vanishing series , which examines the
human toll of the
vanishing wild.
Mountain Moment: Call of the Pika