When David Myers would walk home from school as a child, he’d often take a detour to explore a gully filled with lizards, frogs and snakes. One day he saw bulldozers filling in the gully ...

David Myers, whose reverence for California's natural beauty led him to co-found the Wildlands Conservancy and save hundreds of thousands of acres from development, including a patchwork of ...

An occasional series where Mongabay’s founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives, and story summaries. There was something almost subversive about David Myers’s approach to conservation.