A More Than Just Parks interactive investigation. Open the live map and the full story here.
A pregnant mule deer doe leaves the Red Desert in early March and starts walking north. She’ll walk one hundred and fifty miles before summer. She’ll cross close to two hundred fences. She’ll try to pass through six parcels of federal land this year that have been marked for destruction since last fall. Somebody, in an office in Washington, signed the paperwork. Somebody else knew the route she was walking and approved it anyway.
Her great-grandmothers walked this path. Her granddaughters never will.
Six hundred miles to the west, a wild steelhead noses out of the Pacific and starts climbing the Columbia toward the same gravel her ancestors spawned in. She’ll fight past eight dams and a federal government that just tore up the agreement built to keep her run alive. Her great-grandmothers made this run by the millions. Her offspring may never make it home.
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