The timing seems almost surreal. Just a couple of weeks after my husband John and I visited the site of the proposed Birthplace of Rivers National Monument in West Virginia’s Monongahela National Forest, ferocious floods devastated the region. I had already submitted my feature on the proposed monument for the July issue of The Observer when the floods hit, and the issue reached the stands … Continue reading The birthplace of rivers floods
For the past few years, my husband John and I have traveled north from our home in West Virginia to central New York for Christmas. My father lives there, around the corner from my sister and her family. Or at least he used to live there; first with his wife, and then alone. Every year, John and I would drive over the rivers and through … Continue reading Co-home for the holidays
Summer may be over, but its sea turtles live on. At least loggerhead turtles on North Carolina’s Ocracoke Island do. Loggerheads are a threatened species in the southeastern United States, but the National Park Service reported a record number of sea turtle nests this summer on Ocracoke Island (which is part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore). I was lucky enough to see one … Continue reading Hooray for hatchlings: baby sea turtles make it to the sea
Films at this year’s American Conservation Film Festival tell stories, but also expose common myths. See my feature in The Observer about how three modern myths fuel our current environmental angst. Continue reading The stories we tell
