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A man of sincerity is less interested
in defending the truth than in stating it clearly, for he thinks that if
the truth can be clearly seen it can very well take care of itself.
--Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island.
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Wendee Holtcamp
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its light.
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- I am Animal Planet's Animals in the News
blogger! Blogging 5 days/week - Check it out!
- Saving Big Bird:
A cyclone forced endangered cassowaries out of the rainforest and
into the danger zone. Wildlife Conservation Magazine. May 2009.
- The Elusive Ringtail: A new study
sheds light on a little-known mammal in Palo Duro Canyon. Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine.
April 2009. View PDF version here.
- Fighting
for the Firefox. National Wildlife Magazine. Feb/Mar 2009.
- The Snake Underground. The
Louisiana pine snake, like its longleaf pine habitat, may be running out of time.
Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine. Jan 2009.
- Fury Over Conservationists
Taking Fees from Developers. A proposed megaport and a sea-turtle nesting beach collide. Scientific American Magazine. Jan 2009.
This PDF of the story has the full layout with a
cool image of mating sea turtles. :)
- Messin' with Texas Education.
Daily Kos blog diary about my experience at the Nov 20 State Board of Education hearings. Nov 21, 2008.
- Wandering Wildcats.
Bobcats adapt to life in suburbia.
Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine Cover Story. Dec. 2008.
- Can
Cassowary Poo Save the Rainforest? 4 1-minute radio podcasts on Discovery Channel Earth Live.
- Ideas by Nature: Biomimicry looks to 3.8
billion years of evolution for solutions to human problems. Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine. Aug 2008.
- Dead Zone.
Texas Parks & Wildlife magazine Annual Water issue: State of the Gulf of Mexico. July 2008.
- Tasmania's
Devil of a Problem. National Wildlife magazine Jun/July 2008.
- Boom Time, Points of Interest Dept.
Smithsonian Magazine. April 2008. "As the sun rises over the tallgrass prairie, one of the last wild Attwater's
prairie chickens performs an unusual mating dance, called booming because of the low "woo woo" sounds the male emits."
- DIVING WITH SHARKS!
 Follow my adventures diving with sharks in Australia’s Coral Sea as I follow biologists and the
Expedition Shark documentary crew with underwater photographer Cat Gennaro - daily live dispatches for Discovery
Channel Online.
http://blogs.discovery.com/expedition_shark/.
I also did three podcasts through
Discovery's Earth Live (podcasts 1, 3, and 4).
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Trekking Through Nepal's Grand Ridges, Travel Channel Online. Three of the photos in the piece also are by me
(the first two and the last one).
- Cougar Country:
Are mountain lions running out of room? Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine. April 2008.
- Looking for a Few Good Men: When they
come home from Iraq and Afghanistan, our veterans may find themselves out of a job as well as out of uniform.
Time to call Green Collar Vets. OnEarth Magazine, Spring 2008.
- Godiva's latest ride We know chocolate fires libidos, improves moods, and makes hearts healthy.
Who knew it could fuel cars? OnEarth Spring 2008.
- Cruising the Galapagos with a Carbon Neutral Conscience
(a PDF link). E/The Environmental Magazine. Nov/Dec 2007
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- My 30 days of Consumer Celibacy.
Living Green dept. OnEarth Magazine, Summer 2007. I love this article, and check out the hilarious
artwork! Also you can listen to a
podcast interview about the piece!
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Planet Earth Animal Profiles for Discovery Channel I profiled
50 animals for these episodes: Mountains, Jungles, Shallow Seas, Deserts, and
Forests. Check em out!
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Will Urban Sprawl K.O. the Koala? A wildlife hospital founded by the late “Crocodile Hunter”
Steve Irwin is helping Australia’s teddy-bearish marsupial weather the threat of fragmented forest habitat.
June/July 2007, National Wildlife Magazine.
- "I just read
Many Bayous, One River [Dec 2006 TX Parks & Wildlife Magazine].
Thank gosh we have writers like Wendee who have the history, the passion and the reporting
and writing chops to take on a story like this. Kudos to her!!"
-Tom Harvey, Texas Parks & Wildlife Dept
- Sympathy for the Devil,
Ideas Emerge to Save the Dying Tasmanian Devil. [PDF of piece
Reproduced with permission.
Copyright (c) 2007 Scientific American.
Mar 07] (Text copyright (c) 2007 Wendee Holtcamp)
- Back to Nature:
What is it about simplicity and solitude that inspires writers?
My New Mexico Adventures Featured in E the Environmental Magazine!
- The talk I gave at the University of North Texas (UNT) Nature Writing Symposium as an invited speaker.
Changing the World One Story at a Time:
Don't get me wrong, I do believe objectivity is an ideal to strive for, but, is it truly possible? And what are the very real drawbacks?
- AWARD! The article, 50 Reasons to Get Outside
won a Silver (2nd place) Award for best reader service article at the 2007 International Regional Magazine Association (IRMA) Conference
- AWARD!
I received 1st Place 2006
IRMA Award (International Regional Magazine Association) for
Best Nature Feature,
Save the Monkeyface, published in Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine, April 2005. This is one of my favorite articles.
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Save the San Jacinto River & its Riparian Forest!
Suppose you are given a bucket of water. You're standing there holding it.
Your home's on fire. Will you pour the cool water over the flames
or will you sit there and write a poem about it?
- Rick Bass on his dilemma to save Montana's Yaak Valley
or write about it.
This is my Yaak Valley.
San Jacinto Conservation
Coalition, the nonprofit I founded in 2000, nominated Texas' historic San Jacinto
River - which runs along the eastern side of Houston - as an American Rivers
"Most Endangered" for 2006, due to the severe threat from sand mining, water
rights grabs that could completely dry up the river, and loss of bottomland hardwood
forests.
April 19, 2006 Texas' San
Jacinto was announced by American Rivers
as one of America's 10 Most Endangered Rivers!
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