Month: October 2009

The Return of the Mighty Chestnut

Unfortunately, many of our readers have never seen an American chestnut. The reason most of you have probably never seen a chestnut in real life (I’ve only seen seedlings) is because they all died. Well, okay, not all, but “virtually…

We were on the Radio

Okay, so you kind of missed it. That’s our fault. We totally should have let you know about it before, rather than after. Sorry. But yesterday Regina Donour, Headwaters president, and I were on WMMT’s “Mountain Talk,” with Mia Frederick…

The 303d List: A Primer

I was asked recently by our board to prepare a discussion on the processes in various states for developing the EPA’s 303(d) list of impaired waters. In attempting to do that, I discovered that I do not, in fact, understand…