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Lindsey Liles

Lindsey Liles joined Garden & Gun in 2020 after completing a master’s in literature in Scotland and a Fulbright grant in Brazil. The Arkansas native is G&G’s digital reporter, covering all aspects of the South, and she especially enjoys putting her biology background to use by writing about wildlife and conservation. She lives on Johns Island, South Carolina, with her husband, Giedrius, and their cat, Oyster.

Food & Drink

Pour a glass of a local favorite from Arkansas wine country

Land & Conservation

The Glaucomys sabrinus fuscus—Virginia northern flying squirrel—may be off the endangered list, but its survival depends on another conservation effort: reforestation

Land & Conservation

The tegu, a predatory South American lizard, poses a threat to quail, gopher tortoises, and more native Southern species—but there’s still hope of stopping the invasion

Land & Conservation

On Endangered Species Day, learn about six of the South’s rarest—and most unusual—creatures

Land & Conservation

The South is a global hotspot for turtles—which also makes it a hotspot for the global turtle trafficking trade. A new bill in South Carolina aims to help stamp it out

Food & Drink

A Birmingham nonprofit provides for the community and teaches others to do the same

Outdoors

A guide to seeing more fireflies without disturbing the stars of the show

Food & Drink

Bars find creative ways to pay employees—with money off their walls

Land & Conservation

Tune into these livestreams for a peek at the private lives of animals across the South and beyond

Land & Conservation

A pair of nesting bald eagles is helping to bring a Houston community together

Land & Conservation

Some keen-eyed South Carolinians have been spotting gators ready for a gala

Food & Drink

On the ground at two of the newest Southern members of the country’s most exclusive restaurant club

Drinks

Move over spiked seltzer. An Atlanta company is mixing up drinks you can take anywhere

Good Dogs

At the popular DockDogs competitions, one unexpected breed has been making waves

Land & Conservation

Scientists in North Carolina uncover a mysterious—and beautiful—new species