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  • Home
  • About
    • Brief Bio
    • Reporting Awards
    • Other Work Samples
    • Contact
  • E-cology Reports
    • Bird Habitat
    • Climate Change
    • Energy/Environmental Policy
    • Land Restoration
    • Waterway Health
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  • Buy Elizabeth’s Book

Category: river/waterway health

Many streams and rivers are rebounding after humans treated them as sewers for decades. Signs of life are abundant and multi-layered.

Posted on January 14, 2019January 14, 2019 awareness conservation in courts e-cology environmental heroes Montgomergy County, MD conservation river/waterway health

Science Matters: D.C. area creek off limits to homebuilder, court rules

WASHINGTON—With the federal government intent on shredding safeguards for some streams and wetlands, environmentalists were parched for proof that not all waterways need be in...

Posted on October 11, 2018October 12, 2018 awareness climate change e-cology interior department ocean protection Uncategorized

Restoring Beaches: As hurricanes surge, is there enough sand to go around?

WASHINGTON—Most beach-goers probably figure the sand beneath their feet is as endless as the waves lapping at the shore. But they would be wrong. And...

Posted on January 31, 2018January 31, 2018 awareness birds climate change environmental heroes interior department invasive species native forest restoration post-coal energy renewal river/waterway health U.S. Forest Service

Rx for Appalachia: Non-profit restoring native forests to mountains devastated by coal mining and logging

DURBIN, WEST VIRGINIA—Near the top of Cheat Mountain, bulldozer operator Bill Moore grimaces at the wreckage littering the steep slope below. It looks as if...

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E-cology Reports

Book cover Greetings Readers, February 10, 2021 by Elizabeth McGowan - Elizabeth McGowan here. Please click to my author website to learn about my journey to publishing Outpedaling ‘The Big C’: My Healing Cycle Across America. You can sign up for my NEW newsletter about riding and writing, and also invite me to be a speaker for your book group, cancer support group or other cherished institution.… Read more >
Ingenuity + money = flourishing enterprises on Central Appalachia coalfields April 24, 2019 by Elizabeth McGowan - Whitesburg, Ky.—If hollowed out minelands and communities of Central Appalachia are to be restored in some fashion, then the vision for the region’s future has to extend beyond infrastructure for federal prisons and natural gas pipelines. That’s what Eric Dixon of the Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center says he hears as he crisscrosses the area. "Communities… Read more >