John H. Tibbetts is a freelance writer in Charleston, South Carolina. His work has appeared in BioScience, Hakai,The Scientist, The Washington Post, Yale e360, Environmental Health Perspectives and others. For 25 years, he was editor of Coastal Heritage magazine, which focuses on the South Carolina lowcountry.
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