In Jon Rugh’s backyard workshop, an Appalachian tradition lives on: the wooden whitewater paddle.

A century after his death, Floyd Collins—whose tragic celebrity helped inspire the creation of Mammoth Cave National Park—still endures a restless and unsettling afterlife.

A conversation with Southlands subscriber James Brandenburg—the first in a series exploring how our readers experience Southern nature

What it takes to harvest a recovered predator in Louisiana's coastal wilderness

...last spotted signing books at your local (and soon-to-be shuttered) Orvis

A brutal bear attack in rural Virginia raises a difficult question: what does it mean to welcome wildness back?