Chris Bolgiano, Mildly Amusing Nature Writer
Humor as Nature's Preferred Survival Technique
"Climate change and the Corona virus reveal the massive-to-microscopic scales at which humanity is disrupting Nature. Protecting and expanding forests can balance the scales, because forests answer that most fundamental of questions: 'What does Nature want?'"--CB
Recent Work
04/21/2026
My talk at the historic Wayne Theatre in Waynesboro, VA, tied the early industrial prosperity of the town to the massive forests that surrounded it, and identified features in the woods that are clues to what happened to those forests of the past.
01/02/2026
Living within five miles of the now operational Fulks Run Emergency Response Station makes it possible to get emergency help within minutes.
06/19/2025
Ben Fox of Shepherd Media, a group devoted to books, helping readers find them, and providing authors with exposure, invited me to describe five books that highly influenced me in writing The Appalachian Forest.
04/26/2025
For my PowerPoint presentation at the 2025 Brocks Gap Heritage Day in Broadway, VA, near where I live, I included the most local historical photos and information that I could find.