For more than three decades, Our State “Ramblin’ Man” columnist T. Edward Nickens has reported on conservation, the outdoors and Southern culture for some of the world’s most respected publications. He is editor-at-large and columnist for Field & Stream, contributing editor for Garden & Gun and Ducks Unlimited magazines, and editor-in-chief of Tail, the saltwater fly-fishing magazine. Nickens’s presentation will be “If a Brook Trout Could Talk: What it might say about passenger pigeons, climate change, hope, the future, and most importantly, fly fishing.”