by don | Mar 31, 2011
Through some kind of mix up in the mail, I received a nomination from Wild South’s Roosevelt-Ashe Society for “Outstanding Journalist in Conservation” and an invitation to their 2011 “Green Tie Gala” held last Friday night (March 25) in Asheville. I knew there was a...
by don | Mar 23, 2011
The U.S. Forest Service will be holding a public meeting at the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville at 100 Frederick Law Olmstead Way from 2:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on April 4 to explain its brand new proposed draft Planning Rule. This is not a meeting for public...
by don | Mar 20, 2011
* I saw some wood frog eggs the other day & it reminded me of this column: Wood frogs, Ranus sylvatica, have already been busy sowing their wild oats. I first saw eggs, deposited in a small woodland puddle on Feb. 10. Since then, I found more eggs, in similar...
by don | Mar 16, 2011
On a recent trip to Isle of Palms (IOP), South Carolina, we had access to a sea kayak and decided to take advantage. There’s a pretty dramatic tide at IOP with currents to match so you have to plan your trip accordingly. We weren’t heading anywhere in particular so we...
by don | Mar 14, 2011
March 14, 2011, Chapel Hill, NC – Audubon North Carolina welcomes Heather Starck as the new Vice President and Executive Director of the nonprofit conservation organization. Starck has been the Director of National Audubon Society’s Grange Insurance Audubon Center in...
by don | Mar 9, 2011
Last week the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service tried to put the last nail in the coffin of the eastern cougar by declaring it extinct. The cougar (catamount, panther, puma, painter, mountain lion) will surely not go quietly. This legendary gris-gris of boreal forests,...
by don | Mar 3, 2011
Different people have different ideas of camping. Some people like to carry their camp on their back as they hike for untold miles, eating freeze-dried beans and drinking purified water from the streams. Some people’s idea of the camp is where you go to mix cocktails...
by don | Feb 24, 2011
An old friend from Mer Rouge, La., George Bowe, was passing through a couple of weeks ago so we decided to take a ride down to Cataloochee and see if the elk were out. We got down to the valley around 3 p.m. and before we got to the Palmer Chapel we spotted elk,...
by don | Feb 17, 2011
Environmentalism across the U.S. and around the world was spawned from the sludge of greed, industrialization and indifference. Some of the earliest environmental writings in the world date back at least to the 10th century and the Arab Agricultural Revolution. Arab...
by don | Feb 9, 2011
The Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy (CMLC) and partners are literally moving the earth over in Flat Rock to help restore the Ochlawaha bog. Excavators are stripping about a foot of fill dirt from an old tomato field in hopes of exposing the natural wetland soils...
