Helen Macdonald takes us to the top of the Empire State Building to meet a leading ornithologist and give us new insight  into the fascinating vertical environment; "a tumultuous world teeming with unexpected biological abundance." The chapter is called High Rise from...

The Passenger Pigeon Monument at Wyalusing State Park was dedicated in 1947. We hear Aldo Leoplod's  speech from that day at the confluence of the Mississippi and Wisconsin Rivers.  "Today the laden oaks still flaunt their burden at the sky, but the feathered...