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“Exurban Cowboys Pen in Biodiversity” was distributed by Bay Journal News Service, November 2012.
“When the husband and I bought wooded acreage in the Virginia mountains 30 years ago, we thought we were part of the Back to the Land movement. …
“Snug and Smug with Solar Power: Keeping on the Sunny Side of Storms” was distributed by Bay Journal News Service, March 2013.
“Hidden in the Hollows: My Frack-finding Weekend in West Virginia” was distributed by Bay Journal News Service, May 2013.
“A shiny new drill rises like a monument to risk-taking in the view from Diane Pitcock’s porch; its low rumble, like a …
“Of Wilderness and Water: The Fate of the George Washington National Forest” was distributed by Bay Journal News Service, April 2014.
“‘This is the heart of why I work for Wilderness,’ said Lynn Cameron, …
“Citizen Voices Protected George Washington National Forest” was distributed by Bay Journal News Service, November 2014. Won second prize in 2015 Virginia Outdoor Writers Association Excellence in Craft Contest, Column Category (see related link above for 1st place).
“Living next door to the 1.1-million acre George Washington National …
“Parasitic Pipelines Worm Way Through Earth” was distributed by Bay Journal News Service, December 2014. It also won 1st place in the 2015 Virginia Outdoor Writers Association Excellence in …
“Our Million-Plus Acre Backyard Commons: Triumphs and Tragedies” was distributed by Bay Journal News Service, February 2016.
“There’s no grill in my big back yard, no …
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“Seeing the Forest for the Carbon” was published in Virginia Wildlife Magazine, March/April 2018. It won a prize in the 2019 Virginia Outdoor Writers Assn. Excellence in Craft Contest.
…“Old growth is critical for biodiversity from amphibians and aquatic organisms, to entire suites
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“Pillars of Carbon: National Forests and the Great Appalachian Carbon Commons” is an essay that appeared in Mountains Piled Upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Antropocene (pp 175-185), Ed by Jessica Cory. West Virginia University Press, 2019.
“Dashes …
“Forest Forensics” was first published in October of 2019 in Blue Ridge Outdoors Online then republished in Rewilding Earth in February 2020.
“There are no bodies, no police tape, no cluster …
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”Grateful Dead-heading: A Gardener’s Revelation,” an essay in Better with Age: Creativity, Discovery, and Surprise, published in 2020.
“Pinch. Snip. Snap. Severed, spent flowers drop into the compost bucket like guillotined heads into a basket. I pretend they’re my bad habits, bad
Published in the Chimney Rock Chronicle, Volume 5, Issue 6, July 2023.
Everybody knows that money doesn’t grow on trees, but …
