by Steven Higgs | Feb 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
Jeff Stant and I took the first steps on our new book project on the Charles C. Deam Wilderness by bushwhacking across a foot-deep snow accumulation between the Blackwell Horse Camp and the Mt. Carmel Fault, a geological formation that runs some 50 miles through four...
by Steven Higgs | Feb 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
I can’t say the nascent shuffles toward the first installment of our Limestone Post series Revisiting the Deam Wilderness unfolded as planned. I had decided that Panther Creek Hollow is the first objective for this nostalgic wilderness adventure and that Grandson Vale...
by Steven Higgs | Feb 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
Editor’s note: This piece was published in CounterPunch on February 3, 2026. Forest preservationists in the nation’s Heartland are again pushing Congress to nearly triple the size of a Southern Indiana wildland complex in the Hoosier National Forest, guardedly...
by Steven Higgs | Feb 6, 2026 | Uncategorized
PROJECT: Back to the Charles C. Deam Wilderness: Fifty Years Later After a week buried under a foot of snow and a meeting with friends at the Limestone Post, it seems I am still taking to heart the most profound quote I’ve elicited from anyone in my 50-year...
by Steven Higgs | Jan 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
As our boatsman swung wide right and throttled his motor down at the San Martín de Amacayacu landing, a quote from the renowned anthropologist, ethnobotanist, and expert on all things Colombian Amazon Wade Davis echoed in my mind: “For me, the journey we’re...
