WASHINGTON, D.C. – Locust Fork News-Journal Editor and Publisher Glynn Wilson is heading to Washington, D.C. this week for a “Good Jobs, Green Jobs” conference, and will be there for a pre-conference panel and strategy session Monday afternoon for the…
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Camping With WiFi in the Talladega National Forest
Get Involved to Stop Fracking on Public Land – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CANE CREEK, Ala. — Sitting here by the creek listening to the water flow over the rocks and the birds sing in the…
About 35,000 March on Washington for Action on Climate Change
Watch the video here… Bill McKibben at the front of the march, with Sierra Club president Michael Brune behind him [click on the image for a larger view ... more photos below]… By Glynn Wilson WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 17 –…
What Will the Alabama Super Tea Party Majority Do Next?
The Big Picture – by Glynn Wilson – CAMP GUNTER HILL, Ala. – The rain has finally stopped in Montgomery, after a February deluge that swelled creeks to overflowing and made for a soggy government tea party downtown. The boys…
Talladega National Forest Makes Top Ten List of Most Endangered Places in the South
Lake Chinnabee Campground in autumn [click on the image for a larger view] – By Glynn Wilson – There is still no word from the Obama administration’s Bureau of Land Management or the U.S. Forest Service on whether a plan…
Republicans Kick Off 2013 Legislative Session With Tea Party Rally
The Alabama River from Gunter Hill Campground [click on the photos for a larger view] – By Glynn Wilson – CAMP GUNTER HILL, Ala. – We are back on the Alabama River after the first day of the Legislative Session…
Camp Autauga Creek: Assault on Montgomery Round Two, 2013
By Glynn Wilson – CAMP AUTAUGA CREEK, Ala. — Jefferson and I are settled into a new campsite just northwest of Montgomery. You can smell the corruption in the air, literarily, from International Paper’s mill not far from here. It’s…
Scotland to Celebrate 175th Anniversary of John Muir’s Birth
“One touch of nature makes all the world kin.” – John Muir, in The Cruise of the Corwin (1917) Chapter 3 (echoing William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida: “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”) – By Glynn Wilson…
Photo Gallery: Talladega National Forest
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a view from atop Mount Cheaha, the highest point in Alabama at 2,407 feet above sea level. If a plan goes forward to lease virtually all of the land in this view to a mining company…
Where Oh Where Have All the Wildlife Gone?
A stuffed owl on the wall of the Cheaha State Park Restaurant – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – LAKE CHINNABEE CAMPGROUND, Ala. — Sitting quietly by the fire in the woods on a windless, moonlit night, with…
Talladega National Forest Still At Risk From Fracking?
BREAKING DOWN for the MOJO ROAD – We’re heading into the woods for a few days for more photos and video footage from the Talladega National Forest, at risk from natural gas fracking. Happy Thanksgiving. A spokesperson for the U.S.…
Maiden Voyage of the Roadship Washington
A Lake Coleman campsite, just a short walk through the forest to the lake Secret Vistas by Glynn Wilson When the summer heat begins to fade away, the days grow shorter and the leaves start falling from the trees and…
Autumn Camping Season Begins in the Southeastern United States
A slide show of photos from the Maiden voyage of Roadship Washington, a camping trip in the new Dodge Road Trek Sprinter van to DeSoto State Park and the Talladega National Forest in early fall 2012.
Appeals Court Rules Federal, State Agencies Must Consider Environmental Impacts of Building Roads
The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the North Carolina Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration illegally failed to consider and disclose the potential sprawl-inducing impacts of a 20-mile highway bypass near Charlotte. It is ruling…
Gas Fracking Coming to Talladega National Forest?
by Glynn Wilson TALLADEGA, Ala. — An unknown mining company has prompted the federal Bureau of Land Management to offer up 43,000 acres in the national forest near Mt. Cheaha for oil and gas extraction that could involve hydraulic fracturing…
Looking Glass Falls in the Pisgah National Forest
Glynn Wilson Looking Glass Falls, 60 feet tall, is one of the most popular falls in Western North Carolina, according to the National Forest Service. The name “Looking Glass” comes from Looking Glass Rock, where water freezes on its sides…
Day Tripping to the Capital of Georgia
Secret Vistas by Glynn Wilson ATLANTA, Ga. — Got a good reason, for taking the easy way out now? Tired of the scene your in and want to get out of town and be a Day Tripper? There’s no big…
Four Days and Nights Camping by Lake Chinnabee
Glynn Wilson An autumn view of the Lake Chinnabee campground with no one around (click on the image for a larger view) Secret Vistas by Glynn Wilson LAKE CHINNABEE, Ala. — It drizzled rain in the dark all the way…
Secret Vistas: Last Chance for Autumn Color
Secret Vistas by Glynn Wilson Woke up this mornin’ Turned on the Mac. Got the coffee started, Then looked out the window. The skies are gray, Rain’s on the way. It’s daylight savings time, What can I say? It is…
Secret Vistas: A Film About the Lake Chinnabee Campground
Lake Chinnabee in the Talladega National Forest is one of the prime locations on the Alabama Birding Trail. Secret Vistas: A Photo Essay from the Lake Chinnabee Campground
Secret Vistas: An Autumn View of Lake Chinnabee
A U.S. Forest Service Recreation Area in the Talladega National Forest Glynn Wilson Click here or on the image to see a photo essay An autumn view of the creek leading into Lake Chinnabee in the Talladega National Forest.