What is a trip into the field if you don’t take advantage of all the sensory opportunities that nature has to offer? I went on the Wetlands Ecology & Management field trip to the OuterContinue reading
Category: forests
500 Miles of NC
In the space of 1.5 weeks this October, I had the pleasure of both hiking up mountains and mucking around salt marshes. I would like to recount some of my (mis-)adventures from traveling all across the wilds of North Carolina.
Meagan Knowlton
environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, faculty, forests, students, water, WRM
environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, faculty, forests, students, water, WRM
What is a Water?
How can we translate between water and regulatory decisions when water speaks so many languages?
Chase Discomfort, Not Elephants: Reflections from Summer
I’m creeping through a forest in Gabon. Chasing elephants. Dangerous, enormous elephants.
Duck Tornadoes and Cypress Knees
The bald eagle would swoop down toward the lake, in pursuit of duck confit, and all the ducks would start squawking and circling up into the air. The sky looked like it was full of swirling, squawking pepper flakes.
Happy New Year from 5 Happy Lemurs
The Duke Lemur Center is a magical oasis of Madagascan paradise (which just means it’s a nice spot in Duke Forest that happens to have some lemurs in it) where I get to spend some of my time.
Meandering through Water Issues in Asheville
I ended my two weekends in Asheville with some interesting ideas about water sustainability in business practices, as well as some great memories of outdoor adventures and the beautiful Fall colors.
Life on the French Broad
A forest is a great place to talk about water because it’s everywhere. From streams to leaves to mud to spiders, there is no escaping the issue of water in a forest.