06/01/1989
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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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03/01/1994
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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 …
02/01/2014
Original essay written in 2014 describing changes in former East Germany since I first visited there in 1991.
…“Don’t worry about the land mines,” said Holger Galonska, district forester for the former East German
03/14/2020
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 …
05/02/2021
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 …
07/17/2023
Published in the Chimney Rock Chronicle, Volume 5, Issue 6, July 2023.
Everybody knows that money doesn’t grow on trees, but …
09/01/2023
“60th Anniversary: Brocks Gap Dam Proposal Lambasted!” is the true story of how a small rural community stopped a huge government agency, the Army Corp of Engineers, from drowning hundreds of homes and farms under a massive lake meant to dilute urban pollution as far downstream as Washington, D.C. …
04/29/2024
I was invited to speak at the weekly luncheon of the Harrisonburg Rotary Club, one of more than 46,000 Rotary clubs around the world. Their mission is to form a fellowship of business, professional, …
11/12/2024
I gave a PowerPoint presentation for Rocktown History’s Coffee Mill Talks, (Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society, Dayton, VA), which used photos I’ve taken over decades of observations to show how the forest remembers its past.
What better place to talk about forest history than a Historical Society?
Below is …
02/03/2025
The Emergency Response Station under construction in my rural community will be equipped with both ambulances and fire trucks. This is a huge benefit to our very rural community in the western mountains of Virginia. It will cut the time for help to reach someone sick or injured by hours, …