By Mary Fairchild (Dungeness ; Cumberland Island.) It was just a year ago that I had first stumbled across some ancient scattered shells by the Carnegie Ruins on Cumberland Island and couldn’t stop thinking about them… Cultural ecology is a map of relationships between living things and their group dynamics over time. The Dungeness Historic District on Cumberland Island(pictured) and the…
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Kayaking With Altamaha Coastal Tours: Ancient Tidal Forests to Ocean Renewables
By Mary Fairchild (Rifle Cut) Buffalo Swamp Natural Area/Cathead Creek,a tributary of Georgia’s Altamaha River. Just as Egypt used slave labor, the channel pictured above(Rifle Cut) was dug out in the 1820s by slaves to shorten the water route to Darien: “Straight as a rifle shot through the cypress swamp and just as narrow.” “Mary, can you…
Georgia’s Coast: Tidal Flat Ecosystems, Ancient History, and Stewardship
By Mary Fairchild (Razor sharp clusters of oysters exposed during low tide at Skidaway Narrows across from Skidaway Island State Park.) Once a narrow, shallow tidal creek, Skidaway Narrows is now dredged and is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway which stretches from Virginia to Florida and on the Gulf side all the way around…