Dear Supporters of Shalom Wildlife Zoo, Tomorrow December 9th at 7pm The Farmington Town Board will be making a decision on two zoning clarifications; the one we are most interested in will help save Shalom Wildlife Zoo if approved. We will update you after the meeting. Sadly there is much more happening. This next issue is even more concerning for the future of Shalom Zoo. As we explained to you, the supporters of Shalom Wildlife Zoo, when we wrote to you on September 29th, a small group of Sha

Wildlife biologist Emily Jo Williams’s ears are always tuned for birdsong. “I can’t turn it off,” she says, identifying the buzzy trill of a prairie warbler as she pauses along a forest path near Georgetown, South Carolina, and raises her binoculars to scan a faraway cypress for a swallow-tailed kite nest. Over nearly four decades, her stints with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and the Longleaf Alliance shaped a mission far bigger than any one spec