Thank you, Glen!
Written by Clint Patterson, Head College Forester Glen E. Dandeneau — Forestry — 1989-2026 Glen Dandeneau’s illustrious career at Berea College began 36 years ago. After receiving his B.A. in …
Making Music from the Forest
by Reuben Hicks I am an ETAD Major and have worked as an Assistant Forestry Technician for three years in my primary position. I had the opportunity to do an …
Senna Jenkins’ Capstone Project on Kudzu
by Senna Jenkins ’25 My name is Senna Jenkins, and I am working on a project that could potentially help incentivize kudzu eradication. Kudzu is an invasive, vining plant species …
Is Brushy Fork a Healthy Ecosystem?
Click here to read about the research conducted by Berea College student, Michael Mecham, this summer.
Do You Think the Wind is Angry?
Poem By Charity Gilbert I did not think the wind was angry, I took her as a child, running up the hillside. A wild one, full of life. Now that …
Meet the Weeds — Dandelion
You have probably heard of Kudzu, the invasive species that blankets huge areas of the Southeast in carpets of vines so thick they can starve even mature trees. And, at …
Rediscovering North America’s Lost Biome
It started with a few sentences in a book I was reading about the history of the Appalachian Mountains. The book briefly discussed Kentucky, before colonization, being covered with dense …
A Nature of Caretaking
by Abigail Kingston In an ecosystem, almost every organism depends on every other in some way for survival. However, the concept of symbiosis is taught to us in school like …
In 2023, Let’s Rediscover the Natural World through Curiosity
written by Abigail Kingston In a world suffering from the effects of colonization, profit-driven destruction of natural environments, and industrialization, humans are becoming more and more alienated from the natural …
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