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One day I read a phrase on my passport that struck me irrevocably: "We send thanks to all Animal life in the world. They have many things to teach us as people. We are glad they are still here and may it always be so.” Could you imagine a time when people might look up and tell their children, “Once upon a time, you could see stars…"?
As I sat at a dinner table on the 23rd floor of a five-star hotel in Moscow listening to my new, globetrotting companions exchange adventure stories, I thought of how abruptly different this was from the life I had been living just 24 hours before. Then, this 27-year-old Floridian had spent 12 months in a soul-crushing cubicle and could say she’d left the country only once in the previous 10 years. Now I was 5,700 miles away from home…
For weeks, I’ve been held in a stagnant haze, just like the heavy humidity around me.
Sweat smudges from my hand’s movements on a red moleskin at the same time it gathers in circular containers underneath my nose. Ink glides out from the heat of this Florida day in combination with a ball point on acid free pages, and my mind slips…
I’m back on that Alaska road. The air is the kind of crisp which entices you to breathe more just to feel it. The mountains of the Chugach National Forest surround me, glowing head to toe. There’s a man on the side of road collecting glacial water which spills from 100 feet above. Cook Inlet is on my left. Beluga whales white as snow sneak their backs through the surface just quick enough for me to doubt my eyes…
Published in International Business Times
Overall, the fight for the Tongass National Forest may be one of the strongest conservation case studies of our time. As the only forest of its kind, with so much remaining intact, what fascinating results could keeping a forest in this condition show us?
The USDA Forest Service tempts: "In fact, there are no threatened or endangered species on the Tongass National Forest."
The irony of a fight taking place to protect the densest home of our nation's emblem, the bald eagle, is not lost on me during these times.
Eco-tourism is an ingenious upcoming opportunity to contribute and be immersed in all that you are protecting whilst you are protecting it.
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I find myself in quite the place: the sleepy and sweet Essex Village. My parents have a house here and I’ve been up visiting—pretty necessarily—on the heels of a big breakup.
Essex doesn’t demand a thing from you. All of the “to do's” are slow-paced, quiet, in nature.
Life here is softer—perfect for a healing heart or true respite…
Published by The Palm Beach Post
No doubt Jupiter Medical Center's CAT scan team has seen an array of patients cross the hospital's threshold, but in mid-May, they braced to scan perhaps their most unusual subject. Their patient had gut problems, was on an IV and being treated with antibiotics. He was also not human. He was an endangered loggerhead sea turtle named Dwight.
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