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Ron Dorman—Bruce Coleman Inc. A hike along Australia’s Great Dividing Range would reveal a series of plateaus and low mountain ranges roughly paralleling the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria. The mountain range extends some 2,300 miles (3,700 km) from the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, to the Grampians in Victoria Bass Strait between Australia and Tasmania. In Queensland, the mountains average is 2,000–3,000 feet (600–900 meters) in elevation, but they rise as high as 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) in the Bellenden Ker and McPherson ranges and the Lamington Plateau. F...

When I arrived from the Philippines to the airport in the city of Gondar in northern Ethiopia early last year—before the pandemic started—I was greeted with an intensely flavorful cup of coffee. All arriving passengers were welcomed in the same way. The East African country, historically known as Abyssinia, was already living up to my expectations as the widely regarded “birthplace of coffee.” But it was in the succeeding days, as I trekked the Simien Mountains northeast of Gondar, that I came to truly appreciate the coffee as a source of comfort and warmth on the frigid, rugged peaks...

News photo Active duty: Young Nic (right) on patrol while serving as a Game Warden in the Simien Mountains of northern Ethiopia in the late 1960s. The man on the left, with a rifle slung over his shoulder, was Assistant Warden Mesfin Abebe, and the two men behind were local vigilantes who joined us in pursuit of illegal loggers. C.W. NICOL PHOTOS OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK Reflections on feelings and farmland born of an exciting time spent serving Haile Selassie By C.W. NICOL On March 15 just gone, this newspaper carried an excellent but disturbing article by John Vidal, environment editor of the Lon...