With Good Reason

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A tornado that devastated Fayetteville, Tennessee the week author Clint McCown was born is the setting for his latest award-winning novel, Haints. The real-life tornado reached wind speeds up to 260 miles per hour and damaged or destroyed 1,820 buildings. Also: Biologist Wally Smith fell in love with hiking when he was in high school. Now he and his biology students have created online trail guides for others to explore the beauty of the Appalachian foothills. And: The jaguar is the largest cat in the Americas, but little is known about the behavior of this endangered creature. Marcella Kelly spends four months each year in Belize studying jaguars using camera trapping. Also featured: Anthropologist Peter Metcalf spent part of the 1970s living in the longhouse communities of Borneo. The longhouse was the center of life for the Orang Ulu people of Borneo, but the destruction of the Indonesian rain forest has destroyed that way of life.
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