By Mary Fairchild Bay Cliff Health Camp “Camp Yes I Can” tucked up in beautiful Big Bay, Michigan on Lake Superior. Sam Crowley and Nancy Uschold of Sea Kayak Specialists, in nearby Marquette, have been a part of the Bay Cliff Health Camp kayaking program since 1994. In September they will be teaching a 4-day ACA…
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Cultural Ecology of the Atlantic Coast: Shell Middens and Ancient Tidal Forests
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…
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…
Navigating Bermuda and Cumberland Island: Intrigue, Flux, and Current
The British overseas island of Bermuda is a group of low-forming volcanoes in the Atlantic Ocean, near the western edge of the Sargasso Sea. It is the northernmost point of the Bermuda Triangle where, according to legend, a number of aircraft and surface vessels have disappeared under supposedly unexplained or mysterious circumstances. Our family enjoyed a…