Selected Articles

07/01/2011
Becoming Appalachian

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An identity crisis at my age?  “Becoming Appalachian” was first published in the Winter/Spring, 2011, issue of Appalachian Journal, then reprinted with photos in poet and naturalist Dave Bonta’s Blog, via negativa, July 2011.

Rusty hay mower recalls a long ago farm.
Rusty mower recalls a long ago farm.

The Fall, 2010 issue of Appalachian

03/01/2018
Seeing the Forest for the Carbon

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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

02/01/2020
Forest Forensics: Clues in the woods to historic crimes against nature, and the consequences today
An abandoned winch on my property is a clue to the historic deforestation of the Southern Appalachian Mountains from approximately 1880-1930.
An abandoned winch on my property is a clue to the historic deforestation of the Southern Appalachian Mountains from approximately 1880-1930.

“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 …

07/17/2023
Seeing the Forest for the Carbon
Smaller Gallery Image: Preparing to hug a large, old white oak near home in 2020.
Chris Bolgiano and her husband Ralph live on 112 wooded acres in Fulks Run. They are studying a 16-page contract from Forest Carbon Works and considering legal advice.

Published in the Chimney Rock Chronicle, Volume 5, Issue 6, July 2023.

Everybody knows that money doesn’t grow on trees, but …