TA: You say the third option is to let landscapes decline. Scheller: Managed decline is admitting that we're unlikely to be able to manage a landscape in a way that serves our current goals or values.

The landscape, already affected by an El Niño ... burned 71,000 acres and killed at least 134 people. ... species to landscapes that haven’t previously existed with them.

"I want to touch these places," says photographer Terri Loewenthal. "I want to inspire people to visit them and treat them like the portals to our imagination that they are." ...

We need those "spots" of time, as Wordsworth called them, ... Most of the landscapes don't have people in them at all—and when they do, they're small. We need to remember this.