Tag: preservation
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Author’s Chat: Corridors for Wildlife, at Barren Ridge Vineyard
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 …
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A Sedimental Journey: How Historic Deforestation Degrades Waterways Today
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 …
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Forests of the Southern Appalachians: Repairing the Past, Defending the Future
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 …
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Forests Are Our Future
Opening Keynote Speech at Penn State University’s Forest Landowner Conference, March, 2019.
Mountain view near PA-WV line 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 …