Dominion Should Dump Pipeline
This op-ed was published in the News Leader on 2/20/2019.
Cows, Calves, and Cranes: Celebrating March
This blog post was published in the Staunton News Leader on 3/20/2018.
Shen Valley Magazine
What Exactly is the Shenandoah Valley? This piece was published in the premier edition of Shen Valley Magazine. Issue 1, Winter 2018.
The online version can be found here.
Sinkholes Show How Deep We’d Be In it With Pipeline
This op-ed was published in the News Leader on 11/16/2018.
Governor Northam, These Pipelines Are Not Being Done ‘Right’
This award-winning op-ed was published in the News-Leader on 7/12/2018 and in the Roanoke Times on 7/19/2018. It received the Best Conservation Writing award from Appalachian Mountain Advocates in 2018.
The online version from the Roanoke Times can be found here.
Celebrate Improved Water Quality in Middle River
A twenty-three-mile segment of Middle River De-listed from Virginia’s Dirty Water List. Published in the News Leader eEdition on 5/25/2018 and hard copy on 5/27/2018.
Forrest Pritchard, soil health champion in the Shenandoah River watershed.
Forrest Pritchard, farmer, and best selling author is a soil health champion.
Jimmy Crosby, cash grain manager, Cros-B-Crest Farm
Jimmy Crosby, former bull rider, now a champion of soil health.
Scott Miller, beef cattle farmer and singer/songwriter
Scott Miller saved his forest and uses rotational grazing.
Trump, Torpedoes and the Clean Water Act at 45
The Clean Water Act is 45 years old this week, born in the U.S. Congress on October 18, 1972. Sometime before that day, the river of my childhood — the Roanoke River in southwestern Virginia — had been declared a fire hazard because of pollution.
Distributed by the Bay Journal News Service on 10/17/17. Several newspapers ran it including USA Today on 10/19/17.
