I moved to Maryland in February for my first job after finishing graduate school in Alabama. It was already a big change before COVID shut everything down. In mid-August, I was up late scrolling on Facebook when I saw a post about the NHSM fossil raffle. I started looking into the NHSM page where I […]
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NHSM Photo Safari Scavenger Hunt Stories
What are the Frogs Trying to Tell Us?
Maryland is home to a wide variety of wildlife, including birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, and insects. But, my absolute favorite group of animals to photograph are the amphibians. Maryland is home to the Chesapeake Bay, which is fed by over 64,000 square miles of watershed. All of these rivers, streams, creeks, and ponds make a […]
What does it mean to love nature, anyway?
I don’t see myself in Outdoor magazine. Or on outdoor Instagrams with blonde White women with messy buns in pictures posing during a throughhike. I don’t see myself in the narrative that to be an outdoorsy person you should know how to pitch a tent with your eyes closed and not mind how hard the […]