My wife and I really love South Mountain State Park, and this would give us a good excuse to make another visit. But I will try to make the trip no matter which park you choose. Harry From: Brian Bockhahn Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 6:40 PM To: ncsc-moths Subject: [ncsc-moths] Western NC Moth workshop 2012 I really want this ball to keep rolling on this, of the western NC state parks I can secure for such a workshop are: New River State Park: (Ashe) classroom and auditorium (84 species on list) South Mountains: (Burke) classroom and auditorium (27 species) Stone Mountain:(Wilkes) small meeting room, 12ppl (0 species) Elk Knob: (Watuga county near Merrill) small meeting room, 12ppl (134 species) New River may be the closest to TN and VA moth'ers, but I'll let Merrill or someone comment on which would produce the best finds. Any park would love to host it and add moths to their checklist which as you can see are seriously LACKING!!!! I'm going to try to set up some more moth blitzes in some of the parks in my district. If anyone visits a park let us know what you find. All flora/fauna checklists can be found in searchable database for state parks http://149.168.1.196/nrid/ -- Brian Bockhahn birdranger248@xxxxxxxxx