Author: jonathanslaght

• The Pine Nut Wars

  The business of pine nuts is a serious one. I spoke with a conservation inspector last year, the fellow singly responsible for enforcing wildlife and natural resource law across all…

• A Grave Among the Oaks

  There’s a spit of land cleaving Lake Blagodatnoe from the Sea of Japan in the Sikhote-Alin Reserve; a sandy rise five hundred meters long and half as wide, covered by…

• A Nutritious Meal

  In autumn 2014 I found myself in a pickup truck on an overgrown forest road in northern Primorye with a biologist and a hunter; it was long after dark and…