A few years ago I was up to my waist in muddy water, helping lead a class of undergraduate students through the murky…
If you’ve ever spent time walking through the open pine forests along the coast from South Carolina to Louisiana, you’ve probably noticed the distinctive burrows…
There may be little on Earth that I enjoy more than sharing a campfire with friends and retiring to my tent once all the stories…
Alligator snapping turtles are among the rarest animals in the southeast. Many eggs and hatchlings are eaten by predators before they become breeding adults, but…
The following column was written in April of 2008 and relates last year’s spring Bioblitz. The 2009 Bioblitz occurred over the past two weeks and…
For the past several weeks, I’ve cheerfully placed my jacket and sweatshirt in the back of my closet several times, confident that the periodic warm…
I wrote this column last March, still relevant this time of year. It’s finally starting to warm up around Auburn. On cue, red-winged blackbirds have…
This column was originally written in June 2008.I was sitting in my office a couple weeks ago, commenting to my colleague Sean that I had…
This column was originally written in July 2008. Summer is in full force in southwest Georgia and afternoons outside can be sweltering. The heat can…
This column was originally written in August 2008. A few weeks ago, Brent Howze needed my help finding white-tailed deer fawns with a $12,000 heat-detecting…