Annual Wildflower Walk - May 7

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by Jacquelyn Dobrinska
on Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Spring wildflowers don't last long! Come explore the abundant mountain wildflowers on Little Bearwallow Mountain, one of the best examples of a Rich Cove Forest where there is a unusually diverse and abundant amount of wildflowers. Exceptional Botanists - Marc Williams of Botany Everyday and Josh Kelly of Wildlaw - will lead the hikes exploring the extravaganza of color and delight. Bring the kids and join us for a day in the woods.

COST: FREE EVENT
TIME: 1100AM - 300PM
Box lunches available for purchase from Hickory Nut Creek Natural
Foods Store in Gerton (co-sponsor).
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Marc Williams is an ethnobotanists who has studied plants intensively while learning to use them for food, medicine, and beauty. His training includes a bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies concentrating in Sustainable Agriculture from Warren Wilson College, over a decade of experience and travels throughout 22 countries in North/Central America and Europe.

Marc has taught hundreds of people about the marvelous world of plants and their respective uses. Soon he will receive a master's degree in Appalachian Studies concentrating in Sustainable Development with a minor in Geography and Planning from Appalachian State University.

Currently Marc is the main point person for Botany Everyday - a website dedicated to carrying on the multi-spectrum understanding of the plant human interface from varied perspectives. In addition to many plant walks and lectures, in April, Marc will start an on-line Botany course. For more information go to www.botanyeveryday.com

Josh Kelly holds a bachelor's degree in biology from UNC-Asheville (2003) where he graduated with honors and received the Bernhardt-Perry Award for outstanding undergraduate research stemming from two plant collecting expeditions to the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana with Dr. David Clarke. Josh specializes in the flora of Southern Appalachian forests, bogs, and rock outcrops, and in the identification of rare vascular plants, rare natural communities, and the responses of native forests to disturbance. He has worked as a contract botanist for Nantahala National Forest and the Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project surveying timber sales for rare plants. Josh has also worked as a botany instructor for the Blue Ridge Naturalist School in Asheville, NC, and as a guest lecturer on forest ecology at the Pisgah Forest Institute in Brevard, NC.

Since 2003, Josh has worked with the Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition, and was hired as Field Director of the Old-Growth Forest Protection Campaign in 2005. Josh has inventoried over 10,000 acres of old-growth forest in that time, and presented "Ancient Forests of the Blue Ridge" on 16 occasions, including at the November 2005 Southern Appalachian Man and Biosphere conference. For more information check him out at www.WildLaw.com

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