In this episode of Threshold Conversations, we ponder some big and timely questions with Dr. J. Drew Lanham, a distinguished professor of wildlife ecology, author, poet, and birder. How is social justice inseparable from environmental justice? How does his favorite bird relate to the experience of being Black in America? And what experiences led him to write 9 Rules for the Black Birdwatcher? 

We also take an intimate dive into stories from his book, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature, hearing about the origins of his love affair with nature and wild places, and about his family’s generations-long relationships with the land in Edgefield County, South Carolina, a bond first defined by chattel slavery, and now by the sustenance it provides.