A lost ocean, gone for hundreds of millions of years, still shapes the culture—and flavor—of the Kanawha Valley.

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