In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. Drew Lanham. And as Mr Lanham alludes to, slavery may be a reason why there aren't as many people of color out there birding & loving nature. } By J. In 2013, the writer, ecologist, and birder J. He writes about the importance of conservation but also spends some of the latter half of the book investigating his ancestors and their slave roots and what that means to him. Drew Lanham explores the connection between trees and family trees, birds and brethren, and most importantly of all, the place where [] Makes me want to get outside. J. Managing Early Successional Habitats for Wildlife in Novel Places Pp.209-225 in Greenberg, Cathryn; Collins, Beverly; Thompson III, Frank (Eds.). (excerpted from the section, Flock, chapter titled, The Home Place, which is also the name of the book). Zoology 1990; PhD Forest Resources 1997) is a native of Edgefield and Aiken, South Carolina. //