allows the pronghorn , which are not built to leap , to pass under the wire and continue their journey . Another effective example is constructing wildlife crossing structures over highways to help avert car wrecks and animal deaths along established migration paths . Creative solutions like these benefit the migrating animals as well as the people who rely on the lands for their livelihood .
As the Wyoming-based , awarded-winning author and essayist Gretel Ehrlich writes in her introduction to the book , “ Looking at Joe ’ s images , I feel as if I ’ m walking with every animal in every season …. these animals are shockingly fresh and carry a kind of innocence . We feel intimacy with them , almost catching their scent .”
Ehrlich is one of several collaborators who followed these migratory animals with Riis . In addition to her introduction , Yellowstone Migrations also features environmental journalism by Emilene Ostlind , a look at the scientific study of migration corridors from wildlife ecologist Dr . Arthur Middleton , an epilogue by esteemed conservation biologist Dr . Thomas Lovejoy on reimagining conservation , and an illustration by artist James Prosek .
18 Wyoming Lifestyle Magazine | Summer 2018