Check out this U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southern Appalachian Creature Feature podcast and transcript.

Sunday July 30th is International Bog Day and our friends at the NC Plant Conservation Program are hosting a volunteer workday and butterfly count in Hendersonville, NC to celebrate. They’re looking for folks to help with invasive plant control— focusing on Chinese privet– in a shaded mountain bog preserve, as well as a couple more…

Per Email from Harry LeGrand Fellow biologists and nature lovers: I am proud to announce the opening of a new website — an umbrella website called the North Carolina Biodiversity Project, which serves as the home for a number of existing websites on taxonomic groups of animals found in North Carolina, as well as a…

Check it out. I wanted to share this piece about the Bog Learning Network’s own Mincy Moffett  and his career path and his career move from economist to biologist.   “I had a career that I hated and two degrees that I didn’t want to use anymore, so I thought, ‘Man, I’ve got to make a change,’”…

The first Field Day of 2017 was held May 9th at Elk Knob State Park, where Bog Learning Network members helped North Carolina State Parks manage invasive multiflora rose and reduce unwanted mid-story hardwoods in the bog.  

From one corner of North Carolina to the other, we burn for pitcher plants.  Earlier this week, TNC-North Carolina and TNC-Georgia teamed up with Southern Blue Ridge FLN partners North Carolina Forest Service, Georgia ForestWatch, KD Ecological Services, MountainTrue, and Wildland Restoration International to conduct some small, yet highly important controlled burns on two of the south’s few remaining…

Plants that feast on animals for sustenance are something of a nightmarish novelty in the world of botany, but what’s even more amazing is how distantly related carnivorous plants from different parts of the world separately evolved the same taste for flesh. Highlight Article from Science Alert Full Journal Article from Nature Ecology and Evolution…

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12/9/16 update: meeting agenda and registration link now available at https://boglearningnetwork.com/2017-bln-meeting/   Your friendly steering committee is planning a great annual meeting of the Bog Learning Network, set for January 10-11, 2017 at UNC-Asheville. The agenda is coming soon to this site – stay tuned!  Or drop a line…

Rabun County Bog spans +/-20 acres of the Chattahoochee National Forest and, situated at the headwaters junction of four tributaries, is Georgia’s largest known Mountain Bog/Wetland Complex. The hydrology of Rabun County Bog is supported by numerous seeps and springs and the complex features a diverse assemblage of habitats, wildlife, and plant species. On August…

12/9/16 update: meeting agenda and registration link now available at https://boglearningnetwork.com/2017-bln-meeting/   Your friendly steering committee is planning a great annual meeting of the Bog Learning Network, set for January 10-11, 2017 at UNC-Asheville. The agenda is coming soon to this site – stay tuned!  Or drop a line if you have questions.

Check out this Times-News article that was published yesterday, featuring the BLN’s very own Clint DeWitt!

The 2016 BLN Work & Learn Field Day Series continues – and on August 9th, a group of 12 gathered at Cold Springs Seep in Haywood County to document the extent of non-native invasive plant occurrences (multiflora rose and autumn olive), assisting the U.S. Forest Service with prioritizing restoration initiatives and efficiently applying management at…