Steve Higgs has had two overwhelming passions in his adult life: the environment and journalism. He was a reporter for the Herald-Times as far back as when it was known as the Herald-Telephone. He’s also been treading through and savoring the land in every corner of Indiana, photographing and writing about this state’s natural wonders. Fresh out of graduate school, where he earned his journalism master’s degree, Higgs met Andy Mahler. Their lives over the next decades became intertwined as Mahler fought to preserve the beauty and scanctity of the Hoosier National Forest. Higgs has written a new book, Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National: The Folk Hero and the Forest He Loves.

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