Here you can find all the articles and papers I write! I have began writing more articles on wildlife because I hope to encourage further appreciation and conservation action by those who read them, and have already written multiple articles about gardening as well. I sorted them separately from the wildlife and conservation ones, and book reviews are seperate as well. At the bottom of the sight I also put the old magazines and garden updates I, and others, wrote for the vegetable stand!
"Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance."
Theodore Roosevelt
I recently had the pleasure of participating in the 2025 Sedge Island Field and Research Experience, and thought I would write an article about it! For reference before I start, this camp had (I believe) 11 kids, 4 interns, and one counselor present.
Recently I prepared a presentation for the American Littoral Society, and as you can probably guess it was on the relationship between migratory shorebirds and Horseshoe Crabs! Although it may not be obvious at first not only how reliant some of these shorebirds are on horseshoe crabs, or more importantly why in the first place, it makes a lot of sense after you think about two crucial facts. The first of which being the horseshoe crab spawning season coincides with the spring migration for most (if not all) of our Atlantic Flyway shorebirds, and the second Horseshoe Crabs lay their eggs on the beach!
"There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace."
Aldo Leopold
I recently heard of an organization that buys cattle ranges to convert them back to natural prairies, and it got me thinking; That is extremely shortsighted in terms of global biodiversity and ecological function. In theory it is an amazing idea, take the non-native cattle out of the prairie and return the Bison. More wildlife will follow, and just like that you are helping to restore nature. However, whether you support cattle farming or not, beef consumption is not going down anytime soon. So now in order to make up for the loss of cattle production on those former ranches one of two things need to happen. #1 being we will clear more natural lands in the U.S to either directly graze cattle on, or to use those now cleared lands to grow feed and forage to feed extra cattle now in a feedlot. Or #2, being we need to import more beef from another country, where the increase in demand will inevitably have the same environmental consequences. Whilst restoring the Great Plains to a “completely original” state that organization is now causing more of the Amazon Rainforest to be cut down for cattle production, because at the end of the day Americans still eat tonnes and tonnes of beef. So that’s where I introduce the second opinion of this article; When it comes to rewilding agricultural lands, we need to settle for as close to “original” as possible without losing production. If we completely kick the agriculture off the land we are simply moving the clearing of nature to somewhere else, much like the solution some politicians suggest for handling homelessness. Simply move them to another town. It does not actually fix the problem of homelessness, rather just puts it out of view for the currently affected town. Yet the ripple effect of the homelessness, or in our case the loss of agricultural/ecological, can be felt in that original town.
I recently finished reading Seaweed Chronicles, A World At the Waters Edge by Susan Hand Shetterly, and as you can guess it talked a lot about seaweed. However, I would say it was more so about the ecology and culture of Down East Maine. Coincidentally, these depend on seaweed and the wildlife it supports. The book has a "background focus" on the growing seaweed harvesting industry in the Gulf of Maine, and all the stories and interviews seemed to relate back to this. I would say there were three main ways this was done.