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Memento Bittersweet
During the summer of 2009, one of the finest intact aquatic ecosystems remaining in the heavily mined coalfields of Northern West Virginia and Southwestern Pennsylvania suffered a catastrophic – and completely unnatural – biological shutdown. With the exception of its last few miles before it enters the Monongahela River, this stream had somehow – inexplicably [...]
Autumn Glory, Winter Doldrums
I’m feeling somewhat envious today of those folks living in the southern hemisphere of our wobbly, spinning ball of planetary rock. Call it a bad case of “season” envy. In Australia, spring is well underway. Flowers are blooming. Kites are flying. Kangaroos are making babies. In my part of the world, meanwhile, the first nor’easter [...]
