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What’s in Store on the Forest Floor?
Written By: Michelle S. Ruigrok | Issue: 2015/01 - Winter | Photograph By: Lore Ruttan
Each summer the Highlands Biological Station offers five-day workshops that provide opportunities for in-depth study of special topics relevant to the southern Appalachian Mountain
environment.
Designed as experiential learning opportunities, participants spend most of the time outdoors immersed in the subject, where the mountains are our classroom. This summer there are more workshops tailored towards the community than ever before, focused on fungi, plants, lichens, and natural science illustration.
The diversity of fungi in the southern Appalachian forests is astonishing. Jay Justice and Rich Baird will offer an introduction to fungi this July 27-31.
These mountains are a botanist’s heaven, but learning the thousands of species of plants can be overwhelming. Larry Mellichamp, director of the UNC-Charlotte botanical gardens and author of “Native Plants of the Southeast” will offer a workshop on native plant identification July 20-24 to help you hone in on your identification skills.
For those who want to take their lichen identification to the next level, the summer schedule includes a 3-day rare lichen identification workshop June 11-13 with James Lendemer and Jessica Allen of the New York Botanical Garden.
Finally, there are two scheduled natural science illustration workshops with Lore Ruttan. The first will focus on black and white illustration, and the second will explore color illustration.
These workshops will meet for most of the day during their scheduled week. For more in-depth information about workshops and instructors, visit highlandsbiological.org/summer-2015/ or call (828) 526-2602. Members of the Highlands Biological Foundation at the Sagee Level and above receive a discount as a benefit of membership.
