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. Through his Forgotten Lands Project, he weaves storytelling and imagery to reveal the beauty, complexity, and vulnerability of these often misunderstood landscapes.

His writing and photography have appeared in the High Country News, LA Times, Adventure Journal, Modern Huntsman, Backcountry Journal, and on numerous podcasts exploring nature, science, and conservation. His first book, The Enduring Wild: A Journey into California’s Public Lands (Heyday, 2025), was 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 talks on public lands, place attachment, and conservation history, and by guiding trips with the USAL Project that connect people directly to these fragile and inspiring places.