Dispatches from the Wild World

We floated the Shenandoah River last month and it had everything we expected of a mountain stream: gin clear water, sparkling riffles, broa...

There is an epidemic among baby boomers. As we age and come face to face with our mortality we are starting to reflect on what we have—or ha...

If you travel along the precious few miles of Alabama’s Gulf Coast you will encounter an almost unending string of development. Condos, beac...

In the dim twilight on a deserted stretch of coastline on Alabama’s Fort Morgan Peninsula, a lonely figure kneels and gently touches a stet...

Just south of Tuscumbia, a large swath of wild streams, box canyons, waterfalls, rock shelters and sandstone bluffs remains nearly as prist...

I’m well into my second day of exploring the wilderness of Alabama’s delta country and I’ve not heard one automobile, seen one condo, or cau...