A Road Running Southward: Following John Muir's Journey through an Endangered Land

A Smart Growth Network Webinar

Thursday, July 28, 2022 - 1:00pm EDT
Webinars

Dan Chapman, author of A Road Running Southward: Following John Muir’s Journey through an Endangered Land, and Paul Wolff, former City Council member from Tybee Island, Georgia, joined us to discuss how the region has experienced significant change since Muir’s time, and talk about how Southerners can accommodate population growth without destroying the region’s cherished connection to nature.

Participants

Dan Chapman | An Island Press author | Photo credit: Bita Honarvar

Dan Chapman

Dan Chapman is a longtime writer, reporter, and lover of the outdoors. He grew up in Washington D.C. and Tokyo, the son of a newspaper man and an English teacher. He worked for Congressional Quarterly, The Winston-Salem Journal, The Charlotte Observer, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has also reported from Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. He currently writes stories about conservation in the South for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He lives in Decatur, Georgia with his wife Bita and their two boys, Samad and Naveed. This is his first (published) book.