John Landsiedel, Alaska wildlife biologist and pilot, died on July 25, aged 33

Mongabay
Aug 19, 2025, 7:03 am108 pts
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. To work in Alaska as a wildlife biologist is to accept hardship as part of the job: blizzards, isolation, and a daily intimacy with life, death, and the difficult questions in…

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