RaveThe Wall Street JournalHard Greens will take heart from Tony Hiss’s Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth. Mr. Hiss, a former staff writer for the New Yorker whose previous books include The Experience of Place, is no conservative, and he occasionally lapses into Soft Green doomsaying about endangered humanity and planetary catastrophe. But the book is mostly an upbeat and engaging account of the remarkable progress being made to preserve vast wild spaces for animals to roam ... Mr. Hiss is an indefatigable reporter and graceful writer, traversing the continent to observe the animals being saved and profile their saviors ... Mr. Hiss tells a good story, whether he’s describing his traipses through the wild or chronicling the history of the conservation movement ... however long it takes, this inspiring book shows that there are plenty of Hard Greens hard at work to make it happen.
