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...
by Steven Higgs | Jan 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
Dan Combs had a way with words. While I met him in the mid 70s as Jim Combs’ “little brother Danny,” I had no idea who he was when I read a letter to the editor he wrote in 1985. No environmentalist, Dan was not a fan of the group Citizens Concerned About PCBs, which...
by Steven Higgs | Dec 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
In retrospect, it seems obvious that 21 months spent poring over my professional past for two major retrospective projects would end at the beginning, with a story package about nature photographer Bill Thomas. As detailed in this four-part series, Bill is the one...
by Steven Higgs | Nov 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
I have a trove of memories from the times I spent with Hilario Martinez in Colombia, the most vivid among them his reaction when I relayed news reports in 1975 that said some Americans were eating dog food. We were in a Chinese restaurant in Bogotá, and the image so...
