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Laura Jackson is the Highland Outdoors Managing Editor. She's also the author of Deep & Wild: On Mountains, Opossums, & Finding Your Way in West Virginia, a humorous essay collection. When not writing, she's with her family, hiking up mountains and floating down rivers. She loves scenic views, peat bogs, and her West Virginia Brown Dog, Minnie.
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