January/February 2010 Table of Contents
Features
The Inside Man
The country's public lands are underprotected, underfunded, and increasingly vulnerable. This special agent works undercover to protect them.
By Eric Wills
Sidebar: Protecting the West: a Way Forward
A Town for All Seasons
Grafton, Vt., is as alluring today as it was two centuries ago. But for one family's vision, it might have disappeared.
By Stephen Jermanok
Online Extra: Kipling in Vermont
A Year in the Round
How my love for a barn in Iowa inspired a lifelong obsession
By Thisbe Nissen
Departments
People Saving Places
Preservationists help rebuild a burned San Antonio house • Winners of the "This Place Matters" photo contest • A public-private alliance restores Thomas Edison's lab in West Orange, N.J.
Making a Difference
Jonas Landes organized volunteers to save adobe stables in Colorado
Online Extra: Video of the stables' restoration
Home Front
Reviving a farmhouse near Antietam National Battlefield
Traveler
The lost gardens of Alcatraz Island are back and blooming
Now & Then
A 1920s filling station in Kentucky represents preservation at its best
The Back Page
Inside the national parks you'll find natural—and man-made—wonders
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