Tag Archives: wildlife

Bees and Wildlife Gardens –Student Track @ SOGALO17 2017-01-21

The students like the bees.


Bees


South Georgia Growing Local
is inside
a new venue with cooking facilities!

When:
9AM-4:30 PM, Saturday, January 21st 2017 today, right now!

Where: Continue reading

Bringing Nature Home –Beth Wiggins Grant

Student Naturalist Beth Grant will speak at

South Georgia Growing Local 2014
:



In his book

Bringing Nature Home
, Dr. Doug Tallamy explains


how
everyone who loves the wonders of the natural world can contribute
to the survival of our native birds, butterflies, and other
treasures by providing the native plants needed to support them.
Beth Grant has recently obtained permission from Dr. Tallamy to
present his slideshow on his findings. By acting on Dr. Tallamy’s
practical recommendations, you can make a difference for
bio-diversity while bringing endlessly fascinating wildlife to your
home. Handouts will be provided. Copies of Bringing Nature Home and

Dr. Gil Nelson’s Best Native Plants for Southern Gardens
will be

available for purchase with all proceeds going to

Birdsong Nature Center
.



Here’s her conference bio: Continue reading

Elsie Quarterman with Wayne Morgan’s Satilla River photography book

Elsie and the river book:


Elsie Quarterman with Wayne Morgan’s Satilla River photography book
Nashville, Tennessee, 1 April 2012. Picture by John S. Quarterman.

At 100 101 years and four months, Vanderbilt Emerita Prof. of Plant Ecology Elsie Quarterman sat up to see these pictures. Later she started paging through it to see some of them again.

Wayne Morgan has taken thousands of photographs of the Satilla River, especially in Brantley County.

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