[Bristol-Birds] FW: from Environmental Studies (ETSU)

  • From: "Mary Erwin" <maryerwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:43:43 -0400

Fellow Bristol Birders,
 

The following message came to me through a circuitous route which I have
deleted.  But I thought the subject will be of interest to many.

 

Mary Erwin

Kingsport

 

 

 

From: Lawson, Teresa Kay 
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 9:29 AM
To: 'faculty@xxxxxxxx'
Subject: from Environmental Studies

 

"Mount Mitchell: An Environmental History" is the focus of a free public
lecture at East Tennessee State University on Monday, April 11, at 7
p.m. in the Archives of Appalachia on the fourth floor of the Sherrod
Library.

 

Mount Mitchell, the highest peak east of the Mississippi River, sits
less than 35 miles southeast of Johnson City, as the raven flies, in
Mitchell County, N.C.

 

The surrounding Black Mountain range was a wilderness in the 19th
century, until the era of industrial logging in the southern mountains
began in the 1880s and 1890s. Over the course of the next 20 years or
so, the Black Mountains were ravaged. Thanks to then-new logging
technology and the absence of regulation, the virgin spruce-fir forests
- the same forests that had given the Blacks their name, as a spruce-fir
forest appears black from a distance - were cut with reckless abandon,
often milled merely for pulpwood and paper.

 

Tourism in the Blacks declined after the trees were cut. But, starting
around mid-20th century, the ecosystem began to rebound, and Mount
Mitchell State Park was established. Today, the Blue Ridge Parkway
brings visitors to the Blacks from afar.

 

How does the Black Mountain ecosystem of today compare with that of the
19th century? And what insights can an environmental history of the
region provide us for the future?

 

In his talk at ETSU, Dr. Timothy Silver, author and professor of history
at Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C., will address these
questions and discuss his award-winning book, Mount Mitchell and the
Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in
Eastern America, which was published by the University of North Carolina
Press in 2003.

 

This talk is co-sponsored by ETSU's new Environmental Studies Minor and
Center for Appalachian Studies and Services, a state Center of
Excellence.

 

For more information or for special assistance for those with
disabilities, contact Dr. Kevin O'Donnell, professor of English, at
(423) 439-6679 or odonnell@xxxxxxxxx

 

 

 

 

 



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