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See photos from the 2024 Good Dog Photo Contest

See photos from the 2024 Good Dog Photo Contest

See photos from the 2024 Good Dog Photo Contest

See photos from the 2024 Good Dog Photo Contest

See photos from the 2024 Good Dog Photo Contest

See photos from the 2024 Good Dog Photo Contest

See photos from the 2024 Good Dog Photo Contest

In the lab and in underground caverns, biologists are on a mission to conserve the weird, wondrous life of the Ozarks

The damage is still too great to sample for brook trout, mussels, and salamanders, but biologists weigh in on their hopes, fears, and plans for recovery

Farmers, gardeners, and seed collectives are rallying together to rebuild in the short term—and forge a more resilient future

North Carolina just debuted a Venus flytrap plate—the newest in a long line of important funding sources for the Southern wilds

Scottie was more intelligent than most canines—and not a few humans

A new initiative offers direct support to guides and outfitters in the Southern Appalachians

From his time as a navy medical corpsman to working with bomb-sniffing dogs in Afghanistan, Grayson Guyer followed a winding path back to North Carolina and training companion gundogs

After Helene, farmers have been supporting one another, but food and fencing are still desperately needed in agricultural communities 

Donna Kalil has plunged into canals in the dead of night, straddled two-hundred-pound serpents, and been bitten more times than she can count—all in the name of killing a thing she loves and playing a game she can’t win

The ultra-runner relives the highlights—and a few lowlights—of her epic trek

The release of two rehabilitated brown pelicans is the result of millions of years of evolution, cosmic coincidence, and the hard work of conservation-minded South Carolinians

They nurture the bond between outdoorsmen and their four-legged partners

The aquatic mammals often end up in precarious positions after floods abate