Mike Medberry April 4, 2013

In the spring of 2000, Mike Medberry, a longtime advocate of conservation with American Lands, The Wilderness Society, and Idaho Conservation League, suffered a stroke in the remote wilderness of the Craters of the Moon in Idaho. He was rescued after laying for hours alone and contemplating death in one of the harshest yet most beautiful landscapes in the country. This story interweaves Medberry's own struggle to speak, walk, write, and think with the struggle to protect this brutal, lava-bound, but for him, gentle landscape.