Mac Stone’s work highlights the complex stories of wetlands and wilderness through the wildlife and people who rely upon them. His interest in the swamps and bottomlands of the world come from childhood wanderings around his home in Florida. Stone is an author, speaker, senior fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers and National Geographic Explorer and he strives to expose the dynamic relationship between mankind and the natural world to drive meaningful conservation initiatives. He lives in Greenville, South Carolina with his wife and two children where he also runs a non-profit that raises money and buys critical lands for endangered species, headwaters and wildlife corridors in the mountains and piedmont of the Blue Ridge.