“I saw a big connection between our disrespect for nature and the disrespect we show to ourselves and for each other” – Audrey Peterman. Many national park enthusiasts can recite the history of the system or their favorite site by memory. They laud the conservationists and leaders who knew we must protect precious natural landscapes…
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.
National Parks Traveler – Running National Parks On Shoestrings Brought Varied Economic Results
Florida is home to two of the seven national seashores in the National Park System, and they are affected differently than traditional parks with road access. Because both Gulf Islands National Seashore in northwest Florida and Canaveral National Seashore in east-central Florida have miles of beach facing the water, it’s difficult if not impossible to…
10000 Birds – Maine’s Great Black Hawk, Rescued!
A few days before Christmas, I vibrated in the passenger seat of my mother’s car as she turned towards Deering Oaks Park in Portland. The Great Black Hawk – a species with a native range in Mexico to South America – had been spotted in this park for weeks, but not every day. Though I had arrived…
E. Zambello Writing and Art 