Joseph Champ

Media Scholar

Non Forest Service

Dr. Joseph Champ standing in front of green mountains

My favorite science experience was interviewing families in Colorado about their relationship with the environment. I found that many of them were experiencing the natural world by way of mass media—things like watching Animal Planet shows and thumbing through National Geographic magazine. It made me wonder: Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Mass media bring us images and sounds of nature we might never see and hear in person. But what if the media is replacing our face-to-face encounters with Earth and its creatures?

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