About
Slow notes from the trail.
Field Lantern is an independent online magazine founded in 2025 to do one thing: long-form, careful reporting on the parts of life that move too slowly to make the daily wire feeds.
Field Lantern is a quarterly of trail reporting, wildlife observation, backcountry skills, and slow conservation writing for hikers who walk further than the trailhead sign.
The magazine is run by a small editorial collective, the Field Lantern Editorial Trust, constituted as a non-profit publisher. Decisions about coverage, accuracy, and editorial direction are taken independently of any commercial interest. We do not run display advertising.
We publish under five named contributors who together edit and write the magazine. You can read about each on the contributor pages. Pieces are commissioned, reported, edited, fact-checked, and published in roughly four-week cycles.
We hold ourselves to three standards. Our editorial policy, our style guide, our ethics statement.
Write to us at editor@fieldlantern.co.
The masthead
- MH
Margaret Holcomb founded Field Lantern in 2025 after fifteen years guiding in the Smokies and ten more editing for outdoor quarterlies. She edits the magazine's longest pieces.
- WF
Wendell Foss spent twenty-two years as a Forest Service backcountry ranger before he started writing about the species he had spent his career not disturbing.
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Astrid Pereira teaches navigation and emergency response for a national outdoor education centre. She writes for Field Lantern when the weather is good enough that her students don't need her.
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Tomas Lendvai has been testing outdoor equipment, professionally and otherwise, since 1998. He owns sixty-one pairs of boots.
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Imogen Reece has worked on bird-recovery and pest-eradication projects across the Pacific Northwest, Aotearoa, and the Falklands. She edits Field Lantern's Conservation section.