Joan Maloof was profiled in the April/May issue of Garden & Gun magazine in a feature on 10 “champions” who are working to “Save the Wild South.”

Armed with an old pickup truck and a mattress, the former professor of biology and environmental studies at Maryland’s Salisbury University spent two summers exploring old-growth forests in all twenty-six Eastern states, from Alabama’s Sipsey Wilderness to Kentucky’s Blanton Forest State Nature Preserve, chronicling the journey in her 2011 book, Among the Ancients.

You can read the article here.