"There have been moments during the span of this newsletter where a story kind of falls into my lap that is just too good not to share with you all – and this is one of those moments.

CommonWx is a weather and climate newsletter, and while this story does have ties to those fields of study, it’s more about how our earth is so intricately connected – and how little we know about those connections.

This story begins in a field used for raising cows in Christiansburg in the New River Valley. In one corner of the property, surrounded by knee-high grass and plenty of… deposits from the residents here, sits a tiny shelter with a green door…"