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Rare Plant & Phenology Workshop, Thursday

When
31 May 2012
8:00 AM
Location
Whetstone Ridge Visitor Center

I wanted to follow up the preceding e-mail in regards to the Rare Plant & Phenology Workshop. The date and location for the second workshop have been set. It will be held at the Whetstone Ridge Visitor Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thursday, May 31st. Please share this with any of your members who are monitors or who are interested in becoming monitors. I left my initial e-mail attached below. Please direct any questions or interest my way. Flier attached.

Thanks!

-Shane Sheldon

The ATC is looking for more volunteer Natural Resource monitors! We are in need of rare plant monitors and phenology monitors. For those of you unfamiliar, phenology is the study of periodic plant and animal life cycle events and how these are influenced by seasonal and interannual variations in climate. While rare plant monitoring requires specific knowledge of the species and area being monitored, phenology offers a broader monitoring platform for beginners and advanced monitors alike.

We currently have 37 Rare Plant areas along the AT in Southwest and Central Virginia, of which only 15 of are being monitored. We will also have at least 5 phenology sites on the AT in Southwest and Central Virginia. These sites will hopefully be officially designated within the next month.

This is the second of 2 workshops held by the ATC along the trail in Southwest Virginia this year to provide training for interested volunteers. The workshop will run the length of a day and will be divided into two sections. One half of the day will be dedicated to Rare Plant Monitoring, while the other half will be spent on Phenology monitoring.

Contact Shane Sheldon for more information

Resource Management Technician

Appalachian Trail Conservancy
110 Southpark Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24060
Office: 540.953.3571
Fax: 540.552.4376
ssheldon@appalachiantrail.org
www.appalachiantrail.org

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Richmond, VA 23260-5283
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