Do you have an innovative conservation idea or important story or case study but can’t seem to find a suitable forum for publicizing your idea or story in the mainstream print media? Although we all are seemingly flooded with information these days, with more and more popular and professional publications on-line and in print, it still seems that many important on-the-ground experiences remain untold and unrecorded.
A central goal of The Back Forty is to provide a forum for these kinds of articles, those that are too speculative or narrative-based to make it into professional journals, but at the same time may lack the kind of adherence to journalistic conventions to qualify for publication in the popular media.
The Back Forty therefore welcomes essays, stories, and opinions from conservation practitioners for publication on this site. The main criteria for publication on the site is that submissions must have something topical to say (e.g. a novel opinion, an unconventional idea, a unique story) and must be written clearly and succinctly. Submissions should be about a contemporary conservation issue(s) and should not exceed 2,500 words. Submissions can be made using the information on the Contacts page.
