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  • Folklore & Explore

    Highlands Nature Center 930 Horse Cove Rd., Highlands, NC, United States

    July 18th (Register HERE)      9 - 10 PM FREE, all ages welcome Registration required Curious about old wives’ tales, superstitions, & Sasquatch?  Explore the natural, night-time beauty of the Botanical Garden while unearthing fascinating tales of Appalachian lore. Please bring a flashlight for this adventure! This program is weather-dependent.

    Free

  • Folklore & Explore

    Highlands Nature Center 930 Horse Cove Rd., Highlands, NC, United States

    July 19th (Register HERE) 9 - 10 PM FREE, all ages welcome Registration required Curious about old wives’ tales, superstitions, & Sasquatch?  Explore the natural, night-time beauty of the Botanical Garden while unearthing fascinating tales of Appalachian lore. Please bring a flashlight for this adventure! This program is weather-dependent.

    Free

  • Zahner Lecture 6

    Highlands Nature Center 930 Horse Cove Rd., Highlands, NC, United States

    Lecture 6 - Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication Featured Speaker: Barbara Ballentine, Ph.D.; Associate Professor; Western Carolina University Date: Thursday, July 20th Time: 6pm – 7pm Cost: FREE Sponsored by Miriam & Vernon Skiles and Mary Todd & Jimmy Davis. Birds use acoustic, visual, and even olfactory signals in social contexts that are […]

    Free

  • Amazing Moths

    Highlands Nature Center 930 Horse Cove Rd., Highlands, NC, United States

    July 25th (Register HERE)                                  9-10 PM FREE, all ages welcome Registration required                    Celebrate National Moth Week with us! Learn about the many kinds of moths that call our area home, then […]

    Free

  • Amazing Moths

    Highlands Nature Center 930 Horse Cove Rd., Highlands, NC, United States

    July 26th (Register HERE)                   9-10 PM FREE, all ages welcome Registration required                    Celebrate National Moth Week with us! Learn about the many kinds of moths that call our area home, then join naturalists to see which ones we […]

    Free

  • Zahner Lecture 7

    Highlands Nature Center 930 Horse Cove Rd., Highlands, NC, United States

    Lecture 7 - Sounds Wild and Broken Featured Speaker: David George Haskell, Ph.D.; Author and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor; University of the South Date: Thursday, July 27th Time: 6pm – 7pm Cost: FREE Sponsored by Rosemary & Bill Stiefel. Sonic communication was a late-comer to the evolution of life on Earth. But once song […]

    Free

  • Fleshy Fungi of the Southern Blue Ridge

    Highlands Biological Station 265 North 6th St, Highlands, NC, United States

    Instructor: Dr. Andy Methven (Eastern Illinois University, Emeritus) Students will be introduced to the fleshy fungi (Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes) that occur on the Highlands Plateau. Emphasis will be placed on the analysis of macro- and micro-morphological features in the identification of genera and species as well as the ecological role of fungi in the ecosystem. […]

  • Zahner Lecture 8

    Highlands Nature Center 930 Horse Cove Rd., Highlands, NC, United States

    Lecture 8 - Archaeoastronomy in Southwestern North Carolina Featured Speakers: Jane M. Eastman, Ph.D.; Associate Professor; Anthropology and Sociology Department; Western Carolina University & Brett Riggs, Ph.D.; Sequoyah Distinguished Professor of Cherokee Studies; Western Carolina University Date: Thursday, August 3rd Time: 6pm – 7pm Cost: FREE Sponsored by Suzanne & Don Duggan, Julie Farrow, Florence […]

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  • Writing the Appalachians

    Highlands Biological Station 265 North 6th St, Highlands, NC, United States

    Instructor: Dr. Sylvia Torti, University of Utah In this 5-day workshop we will explore the ways that notions of “nature” and “the self” intersect through writing, and we’ll do so embedded in the fabulous Appalachian Mountains. Using the text Mountains Piled upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene edited by Jessica Cory, we’ll learn […]

  • Zahner Lecture 9

    Highlands Nature Center 930 Horse Cove Rd., Highlands, NC, United States

    Lecture 9 - South Carolina’s Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area Featured Speaker: Tim Lee; Interpretive Ranger/Naturalist; Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area Date: Thursday, August 10th Time: 6pm – 7pm Cost: FREE Sponsored by Martha & Michael Dupuis, Monte & Palmer Gaillard, and Melanie & Tom Mauldin. Located in an area along the Blue Ridge Escarpment, the Mountain Bridge […]

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