Guest Columnist
What To Do With Injured Wildlife
We at Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke have found that our neighbors in southwestern Virginia are very concerned about wildlife, so we want to provide some guidelines to...
ASHLEY RAMBO SHAW: I Hope You Found a Way Out
Jason was my best friend in the third grade, and he was hopelessly poor. He...
H. BRUCE RINKER: Pollution Has A Brand!
When Mexican businessman Alfredo Gandur inspected my photographs of marine plastics pollution along the coastline...
What Wondrous Variety!
In the early 1990s, while on expedition in equatorial Africa, I helped to discover two...
Stones In The Washing Machine
Want to understand the rise of modern Europe? Look for stones in the washing...
The Passing of a Pigeon
This is the year for two notable, and related, anniversaries.
As we observe the 200th birthday of the national anthem of the United States, “The...
Daring To Be Not So Original
Let's be clear. I do NOT steal my blog content from Wikipedia.
But high school and college students? They are another matter. When they get...
A Perspective on Rocks
I have a special place in my heart for rocks. I always have. I like their strength. I like the history they hold --...
A Rare Opportunity to View a Very Rare Fish— The Atlantic Sturgeon
The Atlantic Sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrhynchus) is the largest and longest-lived aquatic organism in the Atlantic rivers of North America. In colonial times, sturgeon could...
Ask The Nature Lady – Black Rat Snakes
One day I was pulling out some plants that were growing under my Bottlebrush Buckeye (Aesculus parviflora). This shrub grows eight to twelve feet...
Farewell Roanoke and Thanks for the Memories – Joe Kennedy
I should have left Roanoke when I retired seven years ago. But I didn't. Lack of imagination, I guess.
Now I am planning to move to...
