Imperial Dreams

I've been feeling an odd mixture of great excitement but also dread as spring approaches. Less than a week ago, in late February, I visi...

This past December I wrote an article for Smithsonian magazine about one of my favorite birds, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and one of my f...

I was absolutely thrilled that Lee Keifer and Lauren Scruggs took top honors in foil fencing yesterday at the Paris Olympics—Lee with a Gold...

From left to right, Gene Sparling, Bobby Harrison, and Tim Gallagher at Bayou de View, shortly after their Ivory-billed Woodpecker sighting ...

Lately I’ve been thinking about the time I spent five months in the county jail for possession of one ounce of cannabis. Fresh out of high s...