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“Life in the Fencerows, and Death Lurking Nearby” was published in Washington Post Magazine, June 8, 1986.
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“Life in the Fencerows, and Death Lurking Nearby” was published in Washington Post Magazine, June 8, 1986.
“‘ONE OF THE MOST time-consuming things is have an enemy,’ E.B. White …
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“The Case for Eastern Old-Growth” was published in American Forests, May/June 1989.
This is the first article to raise the issue of new old-growth in the formerly deforested East.
“Long …
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“Unearthing Salamander Secrets” was published in the Defenders of Wildlife, September/October 1989.
“LONG associated with the clammy clutter in the pockets of small boys, salamanders are hard to glamorize. After all, they do live under …
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“In Rural Virginia, Yogaville is Simply Divine” was published in the The Washington Post, June 24, 1990.
“The shrine is shaped like a flower, but it pokes up from the meadow …
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“Concepts of Cougar” was published in the Wilderness Magazine, summer 1991.
“In the beginning was the lion. Images of leonine power are as ancient as the first scratchings on cave walls and as ambiguous as the Sphinx. …
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“A Yukon Fish Camp for Visitors” was published in the The New York Times, August 29, 1993.
“MY husband, Ralph, and I were …
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“The Great Forest” was published in the Wilderness Magazine, spring 1994.
“Rage is not the politically correct emotion to feel in an old growth forest. Awe, veneration, respect, humility, these are expected. But I want to …
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“In Search of Your Own Private Idaho” was published in the New York Times, August 21, 1994.
DEFENDING our territory – a firneedle-strewn campsite near a lake – wasn’t what my husband and I had in mind for our trip last August to …
Mountain Lion: An Unnatural History of Pumas and People, published by Stackpole Books, 1995.
Mountain Lion: An Unnatural History of Pumas and People examines the interactions between cougars and people across North America through the millennia.
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“Communities in Crisis” is an essay that appeared in An Appalachian Tragedy: Air Pollution and Tree Death in the Eastern Forests of North America, Ed by Harvard Ayers, Jenny Hager, and Charles E. Litter with photographs by Jenny Hager. Sierra Club Books, 1998.
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The Appalachian Forest: A Search for Roots and Renewal, published by Stackpole Books, 1998.
More than a biological overview, The Appalachian Forest is also an exploration of Appalachian life and its many contradictions, including the poverty of a region so rich in natural resources. From Cherokees to bear hunters,