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The Long Way Home: Where Exit Ramps Are Nameless
Appalachia Journal I have learned not to get lost on foot in the woods, but I have never mastered route finding in a car. Road maps never print enough detail; when reality presents unexpected streets and signs, I can’t reconcile them with my broad-brush concept of the...
Deepwater Oil Drilling: Not That New
Cutler Cleveland, editor of the Encyclopedia of Energy, knows the history of deepwater drilling The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media Until BP’s Deepwater Horizon explosion in April and continuing oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, many in the news media...
Everyone Who Starts Will Finish
Warren Doyle at the Connecticut Forest & Park Association Appalachia journal Warren Doyle's rules for long-distance group hikes Warren Doyle, age 60, has a crush on Little Debbie, the snack cake girl. His favorite thing to do is to eat a Little Debbie cosmic...
Earth, but not as we know it
McKibben with the 350 logo T-shirt, at home in Ripton, Vermont Nature Reports Climate Change In his new book, environmentalist Bill McKibben says we must abandon the notion that economic growth and environmental sustainability are compatible — only then can we prevent...
Return to Blue Mountain
Cover page shows the denuded landscape of Blue Mountain near Palmerton, Pennsylvania Written for Appalachian Trailway News Fourteen years ago, in 1987, when I followed the northbound Appalachian Trail up the cliff over the Lehigh River near Palmerton, Pennsylvania,...
Water Studies at Low Elevation Provide Climate Record
Weather equipment at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire written for Appalachia journal In 1955, scientists established the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the southern White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire to study the movement of water...
