A few miles from my home, a bridge rises gradually over the water of Santa Rosa Sound. Linking the mainland of the Florida Panhandle to the barrier island of Navarre Beach, half the bridge structure slopes to the water as sandy edges and sea wall. Between the grasses growing in tufts here and there, Black Skimmers and Least…
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.
CBA – Shoreline Church Hosts Flyfishing Film Tour with Proceeds Benefiting CBA
Over 100 angling enthusiasts spent Friday, May 4th at the Fly Fishing Film Tour, hosted for the second year in a row by Shoreline Church in Destin. The event raised $3000 for the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance (CBA) to improve swimmable, fishable waterways. The 2019 films featured stories from all over the world, including Alaska, the Seychelles,…
National Parks Traveler – Podcast Episode 13: Wildlife in the Parks, White-Water Season, Tuskegee
What is the state of wildlife in the National Park System? Defenders of Wildlife President Jamie Rappaport Clark discusses the health of wildlife in the national parks. Steve Markle of O.A.R.S. provides a forecast for the upcoming white-water season in Utah and California on the Green, Colorado, Merced, and Tuolumne rivers, and Erika Zambello (me!)…