A Crucial Species is now Endangered, and it’s all Our Fault

In the fight against Karen culture, the outdoor community inadvertently lost an important advocate. Our trails and parks are suffering for it.

“My name is the Karen, I speak to the managers.”

Our planet is full of big, complex ecosystems that require a lot of dirty, thankless jobs to keep humming along: Scavengers pick the bones of dead animals, termites break down dead wood, and microorganisms digest literal crap, turning it into useful nutrients.

The topic of today’s article is one such creatu…