![Searching Forgotten Wetlands for the Mountain Chorus Frog](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/Searching Forgotten/Thumbnail.0d8f0bfe.jpg)
by Wally Smith
Those three words are on my mind as I slosh around in a wetland behind the lodge at Virginia's Breaks Interstate Park. The pool isn't much, taking up no more than thirty square feet and its water only…
Read more![Can Citizen Science Save Us?](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/Can Citizen Science Save Us/peninsularis-387332_1920.7f36d62b.jpg)
by Erika Zambello
Voices for Biodiversity’s Advisory Board Member Mary Ellen Hannibal took the TEDx Stanford stage to discuss her journey towards becoming a citizen scientist, and how this discipline could save the world.
Read more![How Biodiversity is Helping to Revitalize Coal Country](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/Coal Country/FEATURE_photo%203_smith_edit.7f36d62b.jpg)
by Wally Smith
It's a cold November morning as I drive from my home in rural Wise County, Virginia, to the town of Tazewell, some 80 miles away. My journey takes me across the edge of the Virginia coalfields and through…
Read more![The Return of Eastern Elk](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/Return of Eastern Elk/elk_feature-400x400.7f36d62b.jpg)
by Erika Zambello, Wally Smith
“Elk are not the first animals that come to mind when thinking of native Appalachian wildlife, but the species was a common sight in these hills prior to European settlement,” writes Dr. Walter Smith in…
Read more![Can You Find Green Salamanders? A Community Searches in the Appalachians](/assets/image-cache/images/galleries/Green Salamanders/DSCN3579.eac2d2a4.jpg)
by Wally Smith
This is the case with the green salamander, one of the most unique amphibians in the salamander-rich Appalachian Mountains. The only truly green-colored salamander in eastern North America, the green salamander…
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