It was my last day in the Maine North Woods for my National Geographic Young Explorer grant. I paddled on Munsungan Lake, a headwater to the famous Aroostook River. The lake’s shoreline, rising from the water in sand and small rocks, bordered stands of young forest, including bright white birch trunks that stood out from…
Author: Erika Zambello
Erika Zambello is a writer, birder, and photographer living and working along the Emerald Coast of Florida. She has a master’s degree in environmental management, where she specialized in ecosystem science and conservation. Her love of the outdoors was inspired by a childhood in Maine, where she returned for her National Geographic Young Explorer grant. In addition to Maine, she has lived in New York, France, Washington, DC, and North Carolina. Erika believes in the power of communicating conservation and exploration, which was the inspiration for One World, Two Feet.
10000 Birds – What is the National Bird of Panama?
In her book, “On a Wing and a Prayer,“ Sarah Woods describes the bird that captured her interest when she first visited Panama: “At more than one metre tall and able to kill a monkey with a single swipe of its powerful, knife-like talons, [H]arpy [E]agles are incredibly hard to find.” Read the rest at…
Florida State Parks – St. Andrews
Are you looking for wildlife? Fishing? Beach? History? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, St. Andrews State Park is for you! Though as of yet I’ve only visited the park once, I know I’ll visit many times in the future, for it’s impossible to take in all 1,260 acres in one day!…
E. Zambello Writing and Art 