Conservation

Conservation
This Small Arkansas Town Would Like to Keep Its Eight-Hundred-Pound Meteorite, Please
Nearly a century after it crashed to Earth in Northeast Arkansas, the Paragould meteorite finds its way home

Land & Conservation
Friends, Fans, and Colleagues Remember South Carolina Naturalist Rudy Mancke
The beloved host of NatureScene and NatureNotes passed away earlier this week

Music
A Surprisingly Popular Album of Frog Noises Comes Bellowing Back
Plus more special sounds as Smithsonian Folkways Recordings marks seventy-five years

Sporting
Baptism By Quail
A hunter journeys to the famed Red Hills in pursuit of the storied bobwhite, those doing everything they can to bring it back, and his own family’s legacy

Land & Conservation
David Joy’s Unexpected French Connection
On his book tour overseas, the North Carolina novelist discovers that catfish are the ties that bind

Land & Conservation
Are the Flamingos Blown in by Hurricane Idalia Here to Stay?
“No one has ever seen anything like this,” one expert says

Conservation
What You Need to Know About Venomous Snakes in the South
Where they are, how to identify them, and reasons not to kill them

Champions of Conservation
Defender of Descendants: Jennie L. Stephens
Families with heirs’ property across the region have an ally in this South Carolina dynamo
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Open Door Policy (Maker): Ryan J. Brown
Virginia’s natural wonders extend a wider welcome with this man at the helm
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Editors Choice

Champions of Conservation
Seed Savior: Chris Smith
In the face of climate change, monoculture, and an uncertain future, a grower tries new tactics
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Tribal Counsel: Mitzi Reed
Rooting out invasives, beckoning youth to the cause: A Choctaw biologist doubles down
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Action Hero: Alvin Dedeaux
This Texas fly guide is hooking up the Lower Colorado with cleaner waters
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The Good Earther: Adam Chappell
An inspiring farmer goes soil deep to prove what’s old is new again
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Gene Genius: JJ Apodaca
An inventive herpetologist wields DNA in wild and wonderful ways
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Feathered Friend: Mike Chamberlain
Plummeting turkey numbers? A Georgia biologist and hunter is stepping in
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Water Warrior: Jacqueline Echols
Long before Atlanta’s South River became a political flash point, Jacqueline Echols began fighting to conserve the waterway
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Land & Conservation
Champions of Conservation 2023
Saving wild turkeys, protecting Venus flytraps, cleaning up rivers, cultivating the crops of tomorrow, and more—the heroic efforts of these ten undersung scientists, advocates, and innovators are helping defend the South’s imperiled ecosystems
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Land & Conservation
Inside the Weird and Wonderful World of Coral Reproduction
If you needed proof that corals are animals, watch these videos

Land & Conservation
Can a Science Writer Learn to Love Roaches?
Digging deep into the research—and my soul—to appreciate this scuttling evolutionary superstar

Land & Conservation
Bringing Back Bison
A restored Oklahoma tallgrass prairie offers a blueprint for heritage herds