The Longleaf Hiker: Alabama’s amazing amphibians
Welcome back to the Longleaf Hiker! Now that you’re familiar with reptiles, let’s talk about our amphibious friends. As a…
The Longleaf Hiker: Exploring Alabama’s herptiles
Alabama has some of the highest reptile and amphibian biodiversity in North America, and has been referred to as America’s…
The Longleaf Hiker: Birding in ‘Bama
If you’re a birdwatcher in Alabama, buckle up and get ready, because you have many birds to spot – over…
Decorate your darkness
I love to follow social media accounts run by people who live in very different natural environments from my own.…
Roundup: Judge rules that Amazon must hold a new union vote due to violations committed
For the next month or so, we will be conducting an internal audit of the Alabama Roundup to experiment with…
Room to breathe
In last month’s article, I talked about the poet Mary Oliver’s question, “What are you going to do with your…
Wild and Precious
My decisions in the last year or so have largely been guided by a question Mary Oliver posed in 1990,…
How we want to be seen
I have recently considered learning to scuba dive. I’m about to start graduate school, will be located several hours from…
The rest will follow
In a few months, I’ll be starting graduate school and embarking on a new adventure. As I’m leaving the job…
What you can do matters
I have recently decided to eliminate “you can do anything you set your mind to” from my repertoire of encouraging…