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The Disappeared Sandplains: 95 percent of them are gone
Sandplain in central Connecticut. Disturbed sand is from an all-terrain vehicle. Connecticut Woodlands, spring 2016 I trudge along a barren, sandy field, following a bespectacled, gray-bearded ecologist named Bill Moorhead. He steps carefully in his work boots over...
Back on the Ramsey Trail: The Boys Are There
Chris with John, Steve, and Bob, ready for day camp, Southhampton, Pennsylvania. Photo by Gloria Woodside Appalachia Journal, Winter Spring 2016 I first climbed the Ramsey Trail in central New Hampshire with my three big brothers—Bob, Steve, and John—in...
Helen Binney Kitchel
Helen Binney Kitchel in a 1970s newspaper clipping Connecticut Woodlands magazine, Summer 2015 Champion of nature A few years ago, Greenwich local history librarian Carl White called Helen Binney Kitchel “the Rachel Carson of Greenwich, Connecticut.” The two women...
Four Quartets and Eight Legs
The Eight-Legged Thing outside the Caratunk, Maine Post Office. From left: Chris Woodside, Cay Lodine, Phil Lodine, Nat Eddy Appalachia journal, Summer/Fall 2014 Rituals fortify an Appalachian Trail trek The thin paperback's cover bent back. My friend Phil held it up...
Will Seattle Be the First U.S. City to Recycle Everything?
Woman recycling glass in Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle, 1990. Seattle Municipal Archives/Wikimedia Commons It’s dawn on waste-collection day in the hilly Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle. Along the curvy streets of this residential peninsula northwest of...
Coastal towns adapt to the realities of climate change
Old Quarry Road in Guilford, which floods regularly. Residents have voted to raise it, even though only a half-dozen households will benefit from the expensive job. Wrack Lines, Fall/Winter 2013-2014 Not too long ago, a municipal conservation director’s job centered...
