[Bristol-Birds] 57th Annual Roan Mountain Spring Naturalist Rally April 24-26, 2015

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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:04:42 -0500
57th Annual Roan Mountain Spring Naturalist Rally April 24-26, 2015

 

by  <https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.bauer.359> Jennifer Bauer

 

The 57th annual Spring Rally will continue the tradition of offering nature
enthusiasts the opportunity to enjoy field trips and engaging programs that
cover many aspects of the natural history of Roan Mountain and the
surrounding area.

Evening programs and the lunch-time workshops will take place in Roan
Mountain State Park's Conference Center, and field trips will leave from the
field on the left before entrance to the cabins in the park.

Friday Program: Randy Hedgepath "The Tennessee River"

Randy Hedgepath, State Naturalist for Tennessee State Parks, will present a
photographic and narrative program on the watershed of Tennessee's namesake
river. Flowing down from the highest mountains in the eastern Unit, our
streams make a long journey to the largest river in the country. Along the
way are outstanding natural landmarks and a cross section of our history and
culture. Travel with the water of the Doe and Watauga in this entertaining
program. Randy is a native of West Tennessee where the family farm was just
15 miles from the Tennessee River. After graduating from UT-Martin and
working seasonally for several years for the National Park Service and
Tennessee State Parks, he has spent the last 31 years with state parks.
Randy worked as a Ranger-Naturalist at South Cumberland State Park on the
Cumberland Plateau and at Radnor Lake Natural Area in Nashville until 2007
when he was given the opportunity to be the statewide naturalist for the
state park system.

 

Saturday Program: Tavia Cathcart Brown "How Flowers Flirt and Flourish: The
tricks and trials of floral reproduction" 

 

We are very excited to have Tavia back as a speaker! Her presentation will
describe how flowers use color, scent, shape, and tricks to attract
pollinators. Tavia is Executive Director of Creasey Mahan Nature Preserve
(http://www.creaseymahannaturepreserve.org/) in Goshen, KY, where she has
established a two-acre Woodland Garden that highlights native wildflowers
and ferns. The Nature Preserve hosted a record number of 38,000 visitors in
2014. Tavia is highly regarded as a lecturer, educator, writer, and
photographer and routinely offers lectures on wildflowers, flora-lore,
creating woodland gardens, and gardening with native plants to regional and
national groups that include gardeners, college students, and academic
audiences. She is co-author and the lead photographer of Bernheim Arboretum
and Research Forest, winner of a 2011 Gold Nautilus Book Award, and
co-author of the 16-state field guide Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio
Valley, and Southern Appalachians, which covers 16 states, 1,250
wildflowers, and presents 800 photographs. She currently is writing and
taking photographs for her third book, titled How Flowers Flirt and Flourish
- The Tricks and Trials of Floral Reproduction. She was selected as "Today's
Woman" in the September 2011 issue of Today's Woman magazine, is serving her
third term on the executive board of the Louisville Audubon Society, and is
on the board of the Prospect Area Chamber of Commerce. Tavia considers
herself a very lucky woman to be married to Matthew H. Brown. They garden
and live on a family farm in Louisville. 

 ed States, our streams make a long journey to the largest river in the
country. Along the way are outstanding natural landmarks and a cross section
of our history and culture. Travel with the water of the Doe and Watauga in
this entertaining program. Randy is a native of West Tennessee where the
family farm was just 15 miles from the Tennessee River. After graduating
from UT-Martin and working seasonally for several years for the National
Park Service and Tennessee State Parks, he has spent the last 31 years with
state parks. Randy worked as a Ranger-Naturalist at South Cumberland State
Park on the Cumberland Plateau and at Radnor Lake Natural Area in Nashville
until 2007 when he was given the opportunity to be the statewide naturalist
for the state park system.

Saturday Program: Tavia Cathcart Brown "How Flowers Flirt and Flourish: The
tricks and trials of floral reproduction" 

We are very excited to have Tavia back as a speaker! Her presentation will
describe how flowers use color, scent, shape, and tricks to attract
pollinators. Tavia is Executive Director of Creasey Mahan Nature Preserve (
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.creaseymahannaturepreserve.o
rg%2F&h=7AQHvsYuw&enc=AZNUFCkFf-an7eBblmfsXiC7zR9JCuOEi372hGKfgzD_SAsinDR0wv
Z8dBkJilnvIno&s=1> http://www.creaseymahannaturepreserve.org/) in Goshen,
KY, where she has established a two-acre Woodland Garden that highlights
native wildflowers and ferns. The Nature Preserve hosted a record number of
38,000 visitors in 2014. Tavia is highly regarded as a lecturer, educator,
writer, and photographer and routinely offers lectures on wildflowers,
flora-lore, creating woodland gardens, and gardening with native plants to
regional and national groups that include gardeners, college students, and
academic audiences. She is co-author and the lead photographer of Bernheim
Arboretum and Research Forest, winner of a 2011 Gold Nautilus Book Award,
and co-author of the 16-state field guide Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio
Valley, and Southern Appalachians, which covers 16 states, 1,250
wildflowers, and presents 800 photographs. She currently is writing and
taking photographs for her third book, titled How Flowers Flirt and Flourish
- The Tricks and Trials of Floral Reproduction. She was selected as "Today's
Woman" in the September 2011 issue of Today's Woman magazine, is serving her
third term on the executive board of the Louisville Audubon Society, and is
on the board of the Prospect Area Chamber of Commerce. Tavia considers
herself a very lucky woman to be married to Matthew H. Brown. They garden
and live on a family farm in Louisville.
[Bristol-Birds] 57th Annual Roan Mountain Spring Naturalist Rally April 24-26, 2015

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