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SUMMARY:Zahner Lecture 4
DESCRIPTION:Lecture 4 – The Geology That Has Shaped the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau\n\nFeatured Speaker: Bill Jacobs\, Geology Enthusiast and Author of Whence These Special Places – The Geology of Cashiers\, Highlands & Panthertown Valley \nDate: Thursday\, July 6th\nTime: 6pm – 7pm\nCost: FREE \nSponsored by Anne & Dick Goodsell: The Claude Sullivan Geology Initiative \nThe Highlands-Cashiers Plateau is a unique landscape\, with high valleys\, an extraordinary array of waterfalls and mountains\, and rich biodiversity. In this lecture\, we will explore the geologic processes\, stretching back over 500 million years\, that have created the Plateau and shaped today’s special landscape. Our speaker will use concepts and language comfortable for the non-scientist and will discuss how geology\, some of it ancient and some much more recent\, has determined the character and appearance of both the broader Plateau and many of its specific mountains and waterfalls.
URL:https://highlandsbiological.org/event/zahner-lecture-4/
LOCATION:Highlands Nature Center\, 930 Horse Cove Rd.\, Highlands\, NC\, 28741\, United States
CATEGORIES:Zahner Lecture
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SUMMARY:Zahner Lecture 5
DESCRIPTION:Lecture 5 – History of National Forest Management in the Chattooga River Watershed\, and the Compelling Case for a New Mission for the Forest Service\n\nFeatured Speaker: Buzz Williams; Emeritus Executive Director & Program Specialist\, Chattooga Conservancy \nDate: Thursday\, July 13th\nTime: 6pm – 7pm\nCost: FREE \nSponsored by Bryding Adams & Bob Rathburn\, Lynda Anderson & Ken Conover\, Margie Bauer & Jim Parker\, Janet & Scott Clarke\, Leslie & Jim Costa\, Diane Lennox & Paul Manos\, Helen & Russ Regnery\, and Dollie Swanson. \nNational forest lands in the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau encompass a very sensitive and ecologically rich landscape. These forests are critical for recreation\, preserving biological diversity\, protecting drinking water supplies\, producing clean air—and now\, for fighting climate change. These forests are managed by the Forest Service under the US Department of Agriculture and are subjected to intensive logging and cultivation as tree crops. Recently\, the Forest Service decided to cut down rare old-growth trees and increase the amount of logging on public lands in western NC. Scientific research indicates that logging on federal forests is a substantial source of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. Recent studies also found that one of the best ways to mitigate the effects of climate change is by restoring and protecting mature and old-growth forest ecosystems\, which store large amounts of carbon. This talk will provide an overview of national forest management in the Chattooga River watershed\, and why mitigating the effects of climate change requires a new mission for the Forest Service—one that prioritizes protecting and restoring a network of mature and old-growth forest ecosystems\, to ensure biological diversity and management aimed at fighting climate change.
URL:https://highlandsbiological.org/event/zahner-lecture-5/
LOCATION:Highlands Nature Center\, 930 Horse Cove Rd.\, Highlands\, NC\, 28741\, United States
CATEGORIES:Zahner Lecture
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SUMMARY:Zahner Lecture 6
DESCRIPTION:Lecture 6 – Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication\n\nFeatured Speaker: Barbara Ballentine\, Ph.D.; Associate Professor; Western Carolina University \nDate: Thursday\, July 20th\nTime: 6pm – 7pm\nCost: FREE \nSponsored by Miriam & Vernon Skiles and Mary Todd & Jimmy Davis. \nBirds use acoustic\, visual\, and even olfactory signals in social contexts that are important for successful reproduction and survival. Signaling works because it offers advantages to both the sender and receiver. Understanding how signals are used by birds to communicate provides insight into the amazing lives of birds.
URL:https://highlandsbiological.org/event/zahner-lecture-6/
LOCATION:Highlands Nature Center\, 930 Horse Cove Rd.\, Highlands\, NC\, 28741\, United States
CATEGORIES:Zahner Lecture
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SUMMARY:Zahner Lecture 7
DESCRIPTION:Lecture 7 – Sounds Wild and Broken\n\nFeatured Speaker: David George Haskell\, Ph.D.; Author and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor; University of the South \nDate: Thursday\, July 27th\nTime: 6pm – 7pm\nCost: FREE \nSponsored by Rosemary & Bill Stiefel. \nSonic communication was a late-comer to the evolution of life on Earth. But once song got started\, the links that it forged became powerful generative forces. Today\, the diverse sounds around us – from chirping crickets\, to birdsong\, to the human music in our earbuds – reveal the many layers of this evolutionary and cultural creativity. Yet sonic diversity is also threatened worldwide. Using examples from his own explorations of sound\, Haskell will show how attention to the sensory richness of the world\, especially its sonic dimensions\, can root and guide exploration\, ethics\, and action.
URL:https://highlandsbiological.org/event/zahner-lecture-7/
LOCATION:Highlands Nature Center\, 930 Horse Cove Rd.\, Highlands\, NC\, 28741\, United States
CATEGORIES:Zahner Lecture
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