How Tribes Are Restoring Wildlife and the Land - YES! Magazine Solutions Journalism

Jan 4, 2024

The in Washington state are restoring the lands and species of their traditional ecological community after decades of settler-colonialism-fueled destruction. Among the native species being successfully reintroduced are bighorn sheep, salmon, and lynx.

In a series of stories co-published by YES! and BioGraphic, journalist Rico Moore explains how the Indigenous-led recovery has unfolded. Moore, whose work has also been published by High Country News and The Margin, spoke with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about his writings.

Sonali Kolhatkar joined YES! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent 麻豆社事件 Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥� in her 2014聽聽of the same name.