Sitting with fisheries biologist Paul Bugas at the patio of Barren Ridge Vineyard.
Participated in an “Author’s Chat,” (not recorded) with Paul Bugas, at Barren Ridge Vineyard, cohosted by Stone Soup Books of Waynesboro. A major topic was the increasing interest in developing habitat corridors to save wildlife – and …
I read my essay, “Grateful Dead-Heading, A Gardener’s Revelation,” from the book Better With Age, to students in a Lifelong Learning Institute course taught by book editors Bob Bersson and Jack Greer.
View eastward from the VA-WV state line. Despite appearances, forests are not endless and need protection from poor logging practices, especially mature and old forests.
Presented “Forests for Life” to the American Association of University Women, at Bridgewater Retirement Community (not recorded). …
Not a modern art sculpture but a home-welded winch in my woods left over from the 1880-1930 era of massive deforestation.
I was invited to give this presentation by my watershed group, Friends of the North Fork Shenandoah River. In “A Sedimental Journey: How Historic Deforestation Degrades Waterways Today,” I …
I was invited to be on the Global Climate Commons Panel at the 2020 annual meeting of the Appalachian Studies Association in Lexington, KY. By the time the meeting was cancelled due to covid-19, I’d already prepared this Powerpoint, which James Madison University then kindly taped.
The theme for the 2020 annual conference of the Appalachian Studies Association was “Appalachian Understories.” Conference announcements cited, somewhat vaguely, the “Mother Forest.” This was nice to see because the globally unique Southern Appalachian forests don’t receive much recognition, especially the world-class national forest commons. Yet these nearly contiguous six million acres …
The invitation to open this large and prestigious 2-day conference was dangerously flattering. Not only did it give me the opportunity to visit my revered PA friend and writer, Marcia Bonta, and her …
