Writings
Some Published Magazine Articles & Essays
I employ primarily long-form nonfiction to tell stories and investigate details about our evolving relationship with the natural world. My educational background (anthropology, religion, history and political science as an undergraduate and environmental policy and law in graduate school) and my extensive work experience have prepared me to deal with a wide range of subject matter, and to do so in a compelling, illuminating manner.
Aliens Among Us
An Unnatural Silence ~ Colony Collapse Disorder and the Pollination Crisis
Bay Journal Stories
Beehive Fences Reduce Human-Elephant Conflict
Berea College: Radical Equality in Appalachia
Birds, Blades, and the Brutal Business of Clean Energy
A Century of Protecting Virginia's Wildlife Resources
Climbing the Last Light: An Afternoon of Hawkwatching
Doug Peacock Looks Back On 50 Years of The Monkey Wrench Gang
Eden Besieged: Amazonia's Matchless Wildlife Targeted by Traffickers
Endemic Corruption Threatens the Last Great Apes of Africa and Asia
Epiphany on Pilot Mountain: How the Raven Set My Soul to Rights
Exploring the Promise of Regenerative Aquaculture at an Arkansas Fish Farm
From Cheetahs to Wood Ducks: One Man's Contribution to Conservation
A Fundamental Freedom: Retaining Hunting Opportunities Through Land Conservation
Gallinaceous Grand Slam: One Man's Cross-Country Obsession with Quail
Glimpses of Seasons: A Pilgrimage to the Birthplace of Robert Penn Warren
Grub Street Revisited
Guns & Roses: The 82nd Airborne Fights to Restore an Endangered Species
Hearts of Darkness: On the Timeliness of Modern Zombie Cinema
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid and the Race to Save the East's Old-Growth Forests
Highways of Death, Corridors of Life
A Hunter's Paradise That Pays for Itself
In the Forests of the Night: The Great Horned Owl
Like Him We Prey, Like Him We Slay ~ A Call for Shark Conservation
Look What's Killing Our Oldest Trees
Loss of Matriarchs Means the End of Elephant Memory
A Master Archer Channels the Past
A Most Patient Predator: North Carolina's Resurgent Alligator
Nature Needs Half
The Night Riders: Sacred Fire & Revolutionary Justice in the Black Patch
Of Lynx, Rabbits, and a Warming World
Old Man of the Mountains: The Northern Raven
On the Hunt for Appalachia's Secretive Golden Eagles
Preserving the Real World
Retaining a Geography of Hope: How Conservation Easements Preserve Virginia’s Family Farms and Wildlife Habitat
Return of a Native: The Virginia Elk
Room Enough for All: How Farmland Preservation Can Help Wildlife Thrive
A Sad Tale's Best for Winter: White-Nose Syndrome Casts an Icy Shroud over the East's Bat Populations
Scavenger Angel: The Turkey Vulture Reconsidered
Some Reflections on Frog Hunting
South Sudan's Precarious Profusion of Wildlife
The Anthropocene: Mankind’s Grim Legacy Writ in Stone
The Territory Ahead: A Bobcat's Tale
Virginia’s Black Bear: Saga of a Survivor
What the World Would Look Like If Humans Hadn't Killed All the Animals
The Wily Coyote: Why Eastern Coyotes Play a Necessary Role in Virginia
With What Time Remains: Land Conservation in North Carolina
An Unnatural Silence ~ Colony Collapse Disorder and the Pollination Crisis
Bay Journal Stories
Beehive Fences Reduce Human-Elephant Conflict
Berea College: Radical Equality in Appalachia
Birds, Blades, and the Brutal Business of Clean Energy
A Century of Protecting Virginia's Wildlife Resources
Climbing the Last Light: An Afternoon of Hawkwatching
Doug Peacock Looks Back On 50 Years of The Monkey Wrench Gang
Eden Besieged: Amazonia's Matchless Wildlife Targeted by Traffickers
Endemic Corruption Threatens the Last Great Apes of Africa and Asia
Epiphany on Pilot Mountain: How the Raven Set My Soul to Rights
Exploring the Promise of Regenerative Aquaculture at an Arkansas Fish Farm
From Cheetahs to Wood Ducks: One Man's Contribution to Conservation
A Fundamental Freedom: Retaining Hunting Opportunities Through Land Conservation
Gallinaceous Grand Slam: One Man's Cross-Country Obsession with Quail
Glimpses of Seasons: A Pilgrimage to the Birthplace of Robert Penn Warren
Grub Street Revisited
Guns & Roses: The 82nd Airborne Fights to Restore an Endangered Species
Hearts of Darkness: On the Timeliness of Modern Zombie Cinema
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid and the Race to Save the East's Old-Growth Forests
Highways of Death, Corridors of Life
A Hunter's Paradise That Pays for Itself
In the Forests of the Night: The Great Horned Owl
Like Him We Prey, Like Him We Slay ~ A Call for Shark Conservation
Look What's Killing Our Oldest Trees
Loss of Matriarchs Means the End of Elephant Memory
A Master Archer Channels the Past
A Most Patient Predator: North Carolina's Resurgent Alligator
Nature Needs Half
The Night Riders: Sacred Fire & Revolutionary Justice in the Black Patch
Of Lynx, Rabbits, and a Warming World
Old Man of the Mountains: The Northern Raven
On the Hunt for Appalachia's Secretive Golden Eagles
Preserving the Real World
Retaining a Geography of Hope: How Conservation Easements Preserve Virginia’s Family Farms and Wildlife Habitat
Return of a Native: The Virginia Elk
Room Enough for All: How Farmland Preservation Can Help Wildlife Thrive
A Sad Tale's Best for Winter: White-Nose Syndrome Casts an Icy Shroud over the East's Bat Populations
Scavenger Angel: The Turkey Vulture Reconsidered
Some Reflections on Frog Hunting
South Sudan's Precarious Profusion of Wildlife
The Anthropocene: Mankind’s Grim Legacy Writ in Stone
The Territory Ahead: A Bobcat's Tale
Virginia’s Black Bear: Saga of a Survivor
What the World Would Look Like If Humans Hadn't Killed All the Animals
The Wily Coyote: Why Eastern Coyotes Play a Necessary Role in Virginia
With What Time Remains: Land Conservation in North Carolina
