Bloomington’s Limestone Post magazine has posted an outstanding article by Anne Kibbler titled “Andy Mahler: Folk Hero of the Forest” about Andy and our book collaboration.
Anne writes a compelling piece about the day she spent with Andy and I traipsing around the backwoods sections of the Hoosier National Forest in Orange County that the U.S. Forest Service calls Buffalo Springs, where they want to clearcut, burn, and chemically spray 30,000 acres.
Here’s her lead to the story.
“A journey through the Hoosier National Forest with Andy Mahler is a spiritual quest, a melding of a mind deeply attuned to the environment with the physicality and majesty of the surrounding trees.
“’It gives me great joy just to be in the presence of a tree that’s been around 300, maybe 400 years,” he says, pausing by a giant American beech. And, standing in a 200-year-old pioneer cemetery in the middle of the woods: “It’s a circle of trees holding the stones in a loving embrace.’”
Bloomington’s Limestone Post magazine has posted an outstanding article by Anne Kibbler titled “Andy Mahler: Folk Hero of the Forest” about Andy and our book collaboration.Anne writes a compelling piece about the day she spent with Andy and I traipsing around the backwoods sections of the Hoosier National Forest in Orange County that the U.S.…
