August 2012

Here in the 100th Anniversary year of the first detection of the chestnut blight, the tree that has largely replaced it in the forests of the southern Appalachians is at risk for a similar fate.

It’s almost impossible to refine the origin of stock car racing. It is what it is. Bootleggers were running moonshine during the Prohibition, modifying their vehicles to quickly escape from police – and later tax revenuers...

Shifting tectonic plates aren’t the only stirrings around us. Along with the reshaping of global alliances, geographic boundaries, and international currencies, the forest profiles that dominate our very horizons are in flux, as well.