2021 Virtual Meeting

Here’s a recording link and chat transcript from the Bogs & Brews Dec. 1, 2021 virtual event.
Outline (order changed slightly during the event):

*Introduction from BLN Steering Committee

*Presentations
Bag and Buy Bogs: Illegal Turtle Trade with Dr. Jennifer Sevin, University of Richmond & Co-chair Collaborative to Combat the Illegal Trade in Turtles (CCITT)

Habitat and History Influence Abundance of Bog Turtles with Theresa Stratmann, Senckenberg Biodiversity & Climate Research Center; Goethe University Frankfurt

Community Classification of Bogs and Seeps with Martina Hines, Biological Assessment Branch Manager, Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves

Native Ferns as a Biological Control for Microstegium vimineum with Bob Gale, Ecologist & Public Lands Director, MountainTrue

Protecting and Enhancing Southern Appalachian Bogs: Highlights of the Proposed Revised Forest Plan for the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests with Sheryl Bryan, Fisheries and Wildlife Biologist, National Forests in North Carolina, USDA Forest Service

*Postcards from the Field
Using Drone Imagery to Assess Bog Restoration Efforts with JJ Apodaca
Management and Monitoring of Bogs and Seeps in Kentucky with Tara Littlefield
Alabama Postcards from the Bogs with Patrick Thompson

*Thanks & Closing
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