About Wendee Holtcamp
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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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Put it before them briefly so they
will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they
will remember it, and above all, accurately so they will be guided by
its light.
Joseph Pulitzer
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The Wendee Holtcamp Report monthly blogs on
Adventures in Climate Change.
- Unwelcome Visitors:
Invasive zebra mussels, which just arrived at Texas' doorstep, wreak havoc on ecosystems.
Texas Parks & Wildlife Mag. Mar 2010.
- Attack of the Killer Fungus.
Will white-nose syndrome spread to Texas bats? Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine. Feb 2010.
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 The essay I originally wrote for OnEarth Magazine,
My 30 days of Consumer Celibacy,
appears as a chapter in the book
Consumerism:
Opposing Viewpoints. This is one of my favorite articles!
- Silence of the Pikas. Will the American
pika become the first species in the lower 48 states to be listed under the Endangered Species Act
owing to global warming? BioScience Magazine. Jan 2010.
- AWARD! Oct 2009: My article Dead Zone in
Texas Parks & Wildlife magazine July 2008 issue won 1st place (Gold) in the International Regional
Magazine Association (IRMA) Annual Awards!
- I am Animal Planet's Animals in the News
blogger! Check it out!
- Mimicking Mother
Nature: Scientists and entrepreneurs are increasingly borrowing concepts from the natural world to
help them create better, more sustainable products. National Wildlife Magazine. Dec/Jan 2010.
- Lone Parents:
Virgin Birth in Sharks. BioScience Magazine/AIBS. July/Aug 2009.
- Blue-Green Mystery - research links
cyanobacteria or blue-green algae to neurodegenerative disease. Texas Parks & Wildlife Mag. July 2009.
- Saving Big Bird:
A cyclone forced endangered cassowaries out of the rainforest and
into the danger zone. Wildlife Conservation Magazine. May 2009.
- Fighting
for the Firefox. National Wildlife Magazine. Feb/Mar 2009.
- Tasmania's
Devil of a Problem. National Wildlife magazine Jun/July 2008.
My Favorites!
 DIVING WITH SHARKS! Follow my adventures
diving with sharks in Australia’s Coral Sea as I follow biologists and the
Expedition Shark documentary crew - daily live dispatches for Discovery Channel Online's Shark
Week from April 2008.
http://blogs.discovery.com/expedition_shark/.
I also did three podcasts through
Discovery's Earth Live (podcasts 1, 3, and 4).
- 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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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!
- 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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