T. Edward Nickens

The Atchafalaya Basin (dark green in this satellite image, with the Atchafalaya River running through its center) is almost a million acres of bottomland woods and swamp.

Saving Atchafalaya

A more than 70-year effort to "control" America's largest river basin swamp is threatening the Cajun culture that thrives on it

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Hewed From History

In Charleston, South Carolina, shipwrights re-create a 19th-century schooner

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Sherlock of Spuds

In a case that could reveal the villain behind the Irish Potato Famine, the gumshoe is a plant scientist

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Poling on the River

Batteaux were once the lifeblood of Virginia commerce; now locals celebrate those bygone days

A desert tortoise (emerging from its den) may use the same burrow for many years.

Tunnel Vision

Arizona Naturalist Pinau Merlin celebrates life in the desert by keeping a close eye on it

Great Smoky Mountains

Bed and Breakfast

Most of the 256 shelters on the Appalachian trail are pretty rough. Then there's the Fontana Hilton

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Preacher on the Go

Tiny Smith Island has three churches but only one pastor, who gets around by boat and Golf Cart

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The Bone Collectors

A pair of biologists on Cumberland Island save the remains of dead sea critters for others to study

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The Cypress Grill

At a seasonal herring shack in North Carolina, the house specialty evokes memories of an earlier era

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The Jitterbug Met R&B

And the shag, a stylish Southern dance, was born and reborn along the Carolina coast

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