BBC Travel profiles longtime Cumberland Island naturalist Carol Ruckdeschel, highlighting her decades of wildlife research, sea turtle conservation, and relentless work to keep the island wild for future generations.
Listen to Carol Ruckdeschel’s Interview Via the For the Wild website: “This week on the program we speak to Carol about the importance of places like Cumberland Island, some of the most pressing threats Cumberland currently faces, and the dangerous precedent that will be set if we continue to allow private-interest to chip away and fragment the very little bit […]
Cumberland Island biologist Carol Ruckdeschel has been nominated for the 2018 Georgia Author of the Year Awards in the history/biography category for her book A Natural History of Cumberland Island. This is the essential book for anyone who cares about Cumberland. It is essentially a compendium of every species on the island, with Carol’s personal observations and notes from four […]
This is the essential book for anyone who cares about Cumberland. Carol has spent four decades collecting data and studying the wildlife of Cumberland Island. The book includes her field observations, photos, and detailed descriptions of every species on Cumberland Island. “To understand a place, one must live there, as Carol Ruckdeschel has done for more than four decades,” says […]