Silas

I reached out to lead author Silas Fischer, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toledo, to learn more about this bias, how it affects conservation, and what other researchers can do to help correct it.

Hayden, a musician and music agent, loves hiking high in the San Gabriel Mountains — “No place gives me more peace,” he said — but with their jobs and 2-year-old son Silas, making the long drives to his favorite hiking haunts is more difficult these days.

The rest of the small backyard holds a raised deck outside their kitchen, an office space where both Hannah and Hayden work, a narrow lap pool and postage-stamp-size lawn of St. Augustine grass where Silas and dog Dizzy can play.

“I look out my bedroom window and see the healthy places where Silas plays and it has an effect on me. I get a sense of place, like a little oasis. It grounds me, and it makes me feel good.”

A prom-themed party at Vidiots will follow Silas Howard’s “Darby and the Dead,” a supernatural teen comedy starring Riele Downs and Auli’i Cravalho.