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Mt. Rogers Winter Naturalist Rally coming this February!

We are so excited to announce the Mount Rogers Winter Naturalist Rally on February 17-18th!

We are excited to announce the our first Mount Rogers Winter Naturalist Rally to be held February 17-18th! This Rally will not only celebrate the ecosystems and natural history of the Blue Ridge but more specifically, focus on the flora and fauna that make the Winter such a beautiful time in the Blue Ridge mountains! Guided programs include, but aren’t limited to: bark identification, snow science, geology, and more!

People of all ages are more than welcome to help celebrate this change in season with us. Click on this link to join us for a wonderful weekend Winter Rally weekend!

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Fall Naturalist Rally coming this October!

We are so excited to announce the Mount Rogers Fall Naturalist Rally on October 14-16th!

We are excited to announce the our first Mount Rogers Fall Naturalist Rally to be held October 14-16th! This Rally will not only celebrate the ecosystems and natural history of the Blue Ridge but more specifically, focus on the flora and fauna that make the Fall such a beautiful time in the Blue Ridge mountains! Guided programs include seed collecting workshops, nature photography, art, salamanders, apple pomology, and more!

People of all ages are more than welcome to help celebrate this change in season with us. Click on this link to join us for a wonderful weekend Fall Rally weekend!

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Mt Rogers Spring Naturalist Rally May 12-14!

Three days of exploration & discovery for all ages!  

Bring your family and celebrate Mother's Day in the most beautiful place on Earth.  There is something for the entire family to enjoy with an expert speaker Friday Night, trips Saturday and Sunday, and nighttime programs at the campground. Topics include salamanders, wildflowers, geology, birding, cultural history, mammals, medicinal plants, natural history and much, much more! 

Three days of exploration & discovery for all ages!  

Bring your family and celebrate Mother's Day in the most beautiful place on Earth.  There is something for the entire family to enjoy with an expert speaker Friday Night, trips Saturday and Sunday, and nighttime programs at the campground. Topics include salamanders, wildflowers, geology, birding, cultural history, mammals, medicinal plants, natural history and much, much more! 


Featured Speaker: George Constantz

George Constantz, biologist and naturalist who writes about the beauty and nature of the Appalachian landscape, will be our featured speaker Friday evening at 7:00PM.

Born in Washington, D.C. in 1947, George spent six years of his childhood in Barranquilla, Colombia, among the iguanas of the Magdalena River's floodplain, and in Chihuahua, Mexico, where he chased roadrunners through the desert. Since receiving a B.A. in biology from University of Missouri-St. Louis and a Ph.D. in zoology from Arizona State University, George has worked as a park naturalist, a teacher of biology and environmental science, a fish ecologist, researcher, and writer. 

His book, Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders: An Appalachian Mountain Ecology, "exposes the natural conflicts that underlie the beauty and mystery of Appalachian life. The heart of the book explores the quirky, even bizarre, adaptations of selected Appalachian plants and animals -- violence among fireflies, sexual parasitism within frog choruses, and deception by flowers."


Mt Rogers Naturalist Rally T-shirt (Forest Green Heather) $18.00

Buy Online and pickup at the Rally!

Available in unisex sizes S, M, L, XL, XXL.

Heather T-shirt is 52/48 combed and ring-spun cotton/polyester 

Your support keeps the Mount Rogers Naturalist Rally going strong!

 


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(June 2015) The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature, by David George Haskell

Biologist David George Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life. Beginning with simple observations--a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter, the first blossom of spring wildflowers--Haskell spins a brilliant web of biology, ecology, and poetry, explaining the science binding together ecosystems that have cycled for thousands--sometimes millions--of years.

June's BRDC Book Club Selection is The Forest Unseen:

"Written with remarkable grace and empathy, The Forest Unseen is a grand tour of nature in all its profundity. Biologist David George Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life. Beginning with simple observations--a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter, the first blossom of spring wildflowers--Haskell spins a brilliant web of biology, ecology, and poetry, explaining the science binding together ecosystems that have cycled for thousands--sometimes millions--of years."

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