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Recent Work

Featured: Uncommon Wealth: Essays on Virginia's Wild Places

Essays in Anthologies

Chris Bolgiano - Talking Head

Talking Head

Featured: Southern Appalachian Celebration: In Praise of Ancient Mountains, Old Growth Forests & Wilderness

Books

Featured: The Great Forest - Full Page

Articles

Featured: A moss mantled tree trunk in the forest

Op-Ed Columns

07/01/2002
Featured: Living in the Appalachian Forest: Tales of Sustainable Forestry
07/01/2002
Living in the Appalachian Forest: True Tales of Sustainable Forestry

Living in the Appalachian Forest: True Tales of Sustainable Forestry, Stackpole Books, 2002. 

From a tattooed ex-con logger to the Republican president of the Sierra Club, from industrial strength timbering to the delicate art of virtually wild forest herb gardening, this book examines the people and the practices that

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02/01/2020
Featured: Old, broken-down pig fence in snowy woods
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 …

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