Hal Wiggins presently works as an environmental scientist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He has manned a field office in central Virginia for over eighteen years. He earned a bachelor’s degree in biology at Old Dominion University and has won several awards and commendations for his outstanding work in the field of conservation as well as for his diplomatic skills in working with the public. Hal has worked to save thousands of acres of wetlands and historic properties in the Fredericksburg area and was instrumental in the removal of the Embrey Dam. He is a co-founder of the Fredericksburg Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society and is an experienced botanist. He served for four years as a medic in the Army and has worked as a wetlands consultant for an engineering and environmental testing firm. The vision found in his books and art is sincerely inspired by Mother Nature herself.
Hal was born in Anchorage, Alaska. As a member of a military family he also lived in El Paso, Texas and the Panama Canal Zone. When he was twelve, his family moved to Virginia where he has resided ever since. Hal has traveled all over the world, including three tours of India and two of Europe. He has hitchhiked across America twelve times and paddled twice across the Okeefenokee Swamp in a canoe. Hal is also an artist who works in ceramic glazes, wood carving, and oil portraits.
Hal’s three previous books are Virginia Native Plants Black Cat Press 2005; A Tale of Two Dams, from Salem Church Dam to the Embrey Dam Black Cat Press, 2006, and A Field Guide to Crow’s Nest Black Cat Press 2008.
Hal currently resides in Fredericksburg, Virginia with his wife, Jodie.
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Print: $19.70 Download: FREE The catalog of Hal Wiggins' first one-man art show, held at Liberty Town Arts Workshop in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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Print: $33.00 "A Field Guide to Crow's Nest" takes you on an incredible journey to a land that time has forgotten. Hal Wiggins has worked for over 13 years to document, study, advocate and protect over 1800 acres of a unique peninsula in Stafford County, Virginia that is surrounded by a freshwater, tidal estuary. This is a history of Crow's Nest, from its beginnings millions of years in the past, through Colonial America, the Civil War and the efforts to save it today.
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Print: $10.00 "A Field Guide to Crow's Nest" takes you on an incredible journey to a land that time has forgotten. Hal Wiggins has worked for over 13 years to document, study, advocate and protect over 1800 acres of a unique peninsula in Stafford County, Virginia that is surrounded by a freshwater, tidal estuary. This is a history of Crow's Nest, from its beginnings millions of years in the past, through Colonial America, the Civil War and the efforts to save it today.
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Print: $28.10 A new trend is developing nationally as people, organizations, and governments partnership to bring down unneeded dams and promote fish and recreational needs of people. A Tale of Two Dams by Hal Wiggins chronicles the planning, advocacy and demise of two dams, the Salem Church Dam and the Embrey Dam. The book provides a history of dam building on Virginia's Rappahannock River all the way from Indian times to the present. The book documents the important biological and cultural features on the Rappahannock River along with scores of color pictures of the Embrey Dam removal process.
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