We have to get out and run with the wolves. We have to join up with Mary Oliver and love the wild swan. But I want you to know that every one of us i… - Dorothy Bradley

could still be around. And I am. And for a lifetime, I've been driven to try to respond. I find that the question I'm most frequently asked today is whether I have hope; whether I have hope that our planet can survive. And my answer is: wrong question. It's simply a matter of a job to be done. And I would rather fight than watch, as would you.

For myself, I've come to prefer to work in the shadows and alone.

We who are among the fortunate to live here must shoulder the responsibility to protect the last of this unique ecosystem, not just for us, but for the whole country, and for the future; and all this in the face of climate change.