Published in INK Magazine

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…

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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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