Garet Bleir (they/them) is a Sierra editorial fellow and award-winning investigative reporter, documentarian, and photographer covering environmental justice, energy, Indigenous rights, and the borderlands. Their work has been published by Netflix, ZDF, Yahoo News, Center for Public Integrity, Intercontinental Cry, and Indian Country Today.
Video Series: Juneteenth Voices Demand Change As Nation Reckons With its Past and Present, Protestors Offer a New Vision For the Future
In the wake of the nationwide rebellion ignited by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the hands of police office Derek Chauvin and his three accomplices on the Minneapolis Police Department, the nation — and the world — have risen in outrage. As the nation enters its fourth week of the resulting […]
Border Wall Plows Through, Despite Pandemic Endangered jaguar, ocelot, and wolves at risk, along with rural communities fighting the coronavirus
'There is no safety. There is no family. There is no home.' Terror plagues asylum seekers, but defenders are fighting back.
Butterflies vs. Borders Saving the National Butterfly Center and a wildlife refuge corridor from imminent devastation
One day in July 2017, Marianna Treviño-Wright was driving her car by the levee that crosses the private property of the National Butterfly Center. Then she saw something unsettling. Surrounded by the dense Texas thornscrub that grows on either side of the levee, she pulled over, got out of her car and confronted five government contractors […]
Resisting the Border Wall In defense of indigenous history and an Underground Railroad outpost
Garet Bleir has spent the last 100 days living out of a tent beside the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation and allies in the Esto’k Gna’s villages near the U.S.-Mexico border. He is there investigating the humanitarian and environmental devastation caused by the border wall sweeping through South Texas. This story was made possible with a grant from […]