WRITER / PHOTOGRAPHER / GUIDE / SPEAKER
Josh Jackson is a writer and photographer whose work illuminates America’s most overlooked public lands—those managed by the Bureau of Land Management. He weaves storytelling and imagery to reveal the beauty, complexity, and vulnerability of these often misunderstood landscapes.
His work has appeared in High Country News, the Los Angeles Times, Adventure Journal, Modern Huntsman, and Backcountry Journal, among others. He has been a featured guest on numerous podcasts exploring nature, science, and conservation. His first book, The Enduring Wild: A Journey into California’s Public Lands (Heyday, 2025), is both a love letter to these landscapes and a meditation on belonging and reciprocity.
As founder of the Forgotten Lands Project, Josh extends this work beyond the page — through keynote addresses on public lands, place attachment, and conservation history, and by guiding camping trips with the USAL Project that connect people directly to these fragile and inspiring places.
He lives with his wife and three children in the heart of Los Angeles.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
High Country News: 10/10/25
What we stand to lose if national monuments fall: Can one of the nation’s best conservation tools survive?
adventure journal 38: print
across the aisle, across the country: a gesture of bipartisanship created the national conservation land system.
modern huntsman, vol. 15: Print
The enduring wild: excerpt
Backcountry journal, summer 2025
lead Photograph, Table of contents. for backcountry hunters and anglers.
