2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (697+ words) Birding is growing in popularity across Georgia, where backyards, parks and green spaces offer opportunities to spot everything from soaring raptors to colorful song birds. “There are so many things to love about birding,” Brooke Michael, communications coordinator at Birds…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (715+ words) My colleague, “Wild Georgia” columnist Charles Seabrook, is one of the all-time great treasures of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He retired from the AJC in 2005, but his weekly column extolling the state’s natural beauty has continued to run for a staggeringly…...

8+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1460+ words) BLAIRSVILLE — Charles Hosch came to Blood Mountain to take a small amount of dirt. The 67-year-old and his older brother, Heyward, last year began gathering soil from places they considered sacred — Gettysburg among them — and sealing each sample in labeled…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago   (671+ words) A pregnant white-footed mouse scurries through the pine flatwoods of southern Georgia. After narrowly evading an owl by night, then a hawk by day, she finds a place to give birth: an empty tin box in an old cabin. For…...