ALL WHY YOU CARE STORIES

  • Tellico Basin

    For several years, I have fished for trout in the Tellico River Basin in the Cherokee National Forest in East Tennessee. Read More»

  • Falling for Falling Waters

    In 1971, when my wife and I were college students, we stuffed our luggage and ourselves into a Volkswagen Beetle, filled it with 31-cents-a-gallon gasoline, and left New Orleans for week’s vacation. Read More»

  • A Perfect Place

    I wasn’t quite prepared for the beautiful, peaceful, and inviting shoreline that the Outer Banks provided. After that first summer in 1994, I was hooked. Read More»

  • The Whole Kit and Caboodle

    I’ve discovered what is so special about the Carolinas: I’ve kayaked around Sandy Island in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, hiked the North Shore Trail along Fontana Lake in western North Carolina. Read More»

  • Virginia’s Little Switzerland

    I was born and raised in Highland County, in the mountains of Virginia and in the midst of the natural beauty and special places that SELC strives to protect. Read More»

  • A Yankee in Charlottesville

    A Yankee by birth, I moved to Central Virginia in 1995. While the transition from Chicago to Charlottesville was jolting at first, I soon fell in love with this extraordinary part of the country. Read More»