THE EEL EXODUS, DROWNING ISLANDS, & A MONARCH MIGRATION | Nature Writer | Tom Horton

Tom Horton is an environmental columnist, nature writer, documentary filmmaker, and teacher of writing & environmental studies at Salisbury University on Maryland's Eastern Shore. With the soul of an early 20th-century poet & a lifetime spent on the Chesapeake Bay, Tom gets right to covering a handful of its many wonders & predicaments: the primordial horseshoe crab spawn; the beneficial effects of beavers on the watershed; tundra swan migrations; and the plight of drowning islands due to rising sea levels. For story time, Tom reads one of his essays about his observations while kayaking in the midst of the monarch migration. His second reading - of equal wonder for the mysteries of nature - follows the truly epic eel exodus from Appalachian streams to the Sargasso Sea. We culminate with a report on the health of the Bay: humanity's impact; pollution & possible solutions; hope as opposed to optimism; and fond memories of a boyhood spent mucking in the marshes. 

Check out Horton's book of essays, Bay Country, or his memoir of life on Smith Island, An Island Out of Time. Click the links for his documentaries on rising sea levels or Chesapeake blue crabs. And subscribe for free to the Bay Journal.



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