Magazine Articles
Who Led the First Ascent of Denali?
This portrait of Stuck appeared at the beginning of his book 10,000 Miles with a Dog Sled. Appalachia journal, Summer/Fall 2012 Hudson Stuck, Archdeacon of the Yukon For many years, no one knew who he was because of the controversies surrounding the ascent of the...
Emergency Preparedness, a 9/11 Remembrance
Appalachia journal, Winter/Spring 2012 From the time Elizabeth and Annie were little, my husband Nat and I took them into the mountains, from Tennessee to New Hampshire. They trudged miles carrying loads. We taught them how to light a stove, collect water, wait out...
Fears for America’s Parched Southwest
Nature Climate Change Volume 1 Issue 8 Nature Climate Change, November 2011 The amazing giant saguaro cactus of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States does what its human neighbours cannot. It survives on 8 to 15 inches of annual rainfall. The...
Imagining an uncomfortable talk with Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold (U.S. Forest Service) Connecticut Woodlands, Fall 2011 Aldo Leopold was a hunter. The icon of the environmental movement, the man who taught us not to exploit the land but understand its complexities, wasn’t a bloodthirsty killer. He believed that hunting...
A libertarian thinker in Connecticut
Rose Wilder Lane testifying in 1939 before Congress. She favored the Ludlow Amendment, which would have taken declaring war to a vote of the people. (Library of Congress photo) Connecticut Explored, Fall 2010 Over the past several years, my pursuit of information...
It isn’t easy being green
Niamh Murtagh studies why people waste energy at home, even when they know they shouldn't. Since this story appeared in Nature Climate Change's inaugural issue of March 2011, Murtagh has changed her affiliation to University College London and continues to study...
