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Invite Nature Into Your Life
Written By: Winter Gary | Issue: July - 2022
The Zahner Lecture Series explores the art of ancient America and the incredible stressors facing the natural world. Lectures are presented at the Highlands Nature Center. For a full schedule, visit highlandsbiological.org or call the Highlands Biological Station at (828) 526-2221.
For decades, the Zahner Conservation Lecture series has been a cherished summer tradition at the Highlands Nature Center. Named for the significant contributions of Dr. Robert Zahner and his wife Glenda, to conservation efforts on the Highlands Plateau, this series serves to educate the public through weekly talks. The Zahner tradition continues this summer as HBF gears up for their first lectures of the season. Each program will be held at the Highlands Nature Center (930 Horse Cove Road) on Thursday evenings at 6:00 P.M. between July 7 and September 1.On July 7, join us for Precontact Native American Cave Art in the Southeastwith Dr. Jan F. Simek, Distinguished Professor of Science and President Emeritus at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. This lecture will provide an overview of the ancient cave art of Appalachia.On July 14, it’s Unpaved Roads, Ditches, Missing Riparian Buffers, Fertilization: Why Many Mountain Streams Aren’t Cold, Clean, and Pristinewith Dr. C. Rhett Jackson, John Porter Stevens Distinguished Professor of Water Resources at the University of Georgia. In this lecture, Dr. Jackson will discuss how low-density rural development in the Blue Ridge Mountains has completely shifted rural valley stream systems.On July 21, we’ll present Meet the Conservation Heroes Who Are Saving the Wild Southwith Georgann Eubanks, Writer, Consultant, and Executive Director of the Paul Green Foundation. Join Eubanks as she discusses her latest book,Saving the Wild South: Native Plants on the Brink of Extinction. Learn about her wondrous trek from Alabama to North Carolina to search out native plants that are endangered and wavering on the edge of erasure.On July 28, Managing the Coastal Zone in a Changing Climate: Everything We Are Doing Is Wrongwith Dr. Rob Young, Director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University. This lecture will explore how climate change is impacting the coastal environment and coastal development in the USA and discuss the grand failure of government at all levels to act on the crisis in an organized and sensible way.
by Winter Gary, Communications & Events Coordinator, Highlands Biological Foundation.
