Frances Figart, the Creative Servies Director for the Great Smoky Mountains Association, interviewed me in advance of The Crossing event for the Asheville Citizen Times. You can read the interview here.

When asked where he thinks the U.S. is headed in the future in terms of road ecology, he smiles. “People love animals, people love wildlife, and people love good news about people doing good things. It’s a counterpoint to all the bad news we are bombarded with about how people are doing things detrimental to our natural world,” he says. “The success of it all is quantifiable and undeniable. I hope it leads to a greater awareness of the natural world around us and our effect on it, and I hope it leads to accommodating wildlife becoming part of the vocabulary of all infrastructure in the United States.”

It will be such a treat to go back to the Great Smoky Mountains, where I haven’t been since I was a kid!

Thank you Frances!