by Steven Higgs | Mar 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
Miller Ridge looms some 300 feet above the Panther Creek Hollow and is home to a stand of old-growth hardwood upland forest that is rare but does exist deep in the Hoosier National Forest. Jeff Stant knows the stand and will lead me there soon for the next installment...
by Steven Higgs | Mar 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
From the time my daughters were in diapers, Higgs family vacations have always followed my Nikon to the wildest places we could handle, from Sleeping Bear Dunes on the northern shores of Lake Michigan to the Smokey Mountains around Cherokee, N.C. Now that we’re all...
by Steven Higgs | Mar 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
Before I learned my Colombian friends Patricia and sister Luz lived in Yecla, Spain, I had never heard of the place. The town of some 35,000 sits in the Southeast of Spain, in the heart of the region’s olive, almond, and wine country. Arid climate, sandy soil. For a...
by Steven Higgs | Mar 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
In what seems like many lives ago, I spent three days in October 2023 exploring Venice, two with my friends Estella and Thomas and one solo.Part of my Retirement Travel Trifecta project, Venice’s 118 islands — connected by canals and bridges — marked...
by Steven Higgs | Feb 28, 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...
by Steven Higgs | Feb 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
The first steps in a photojournalist’s yearlong return to the wilds Editor’s Note: Revisiting the Deam is a monthly collaboration with the Limestone Post, where this piece originally ran on Feb. 24. I chose Panther Creek Hollow for the initial steps into this...
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...
