We had a fantastic Bog Learning Network Field Trip. We ended up with 22 attendees from NC Wildlife Resources Commission, NC Forest Service, US Forest Service, The Nature Conservancy, US Fish and Wildlife Service, UNC-Asheville, and Warren Wilson College, Mountain True, and the Knoxville Zoo. We hope to be able to provide video and audio from this…
Author: Adam Warwick
I am a Wildlife Biologist, Land Manager, and Type I Firefighter for The Nature Conservancy based out of North Carolina's Southern Blue Ridge Mountains Office in Asheville. My primary interest lies with how forest management and disturbance impacts plants and animals. I use and share the latest research as well as mine and others' experience to guide TNC's forest management and determine how best to mimic natural disturbance regimes, such as fire, to restore and conserve native communities.
International Bog Day Event July 29 – 30, 2015
MorPresented by Friends of Plant Conservation, NC Plant Conservation Program and partners US Fish & Wildlife Service, Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy, and The Nature Conservancy Day One Wednesday evening, 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Cedar Mountain Community Center, Cedar Mountain (Transylvania County) NC Jim Fowler – Beautiful & Unique Plants of Southern Bogs An avowed…
Great new video on the Mountain Bogs National Wildlife Refuge
Here is a great new video on the Mountain Bogs National Wildlife Refuge produced by Joseph Coleman and Claire Lamberg, students in a Warren Wilson College documentary class.
New Research Article: Removing Privet has added benefit of removing exotic earthworms
Thanks to Mincy Moffett for sharing this reasearch. This study investigated the possibility of a facilitative relationship between Chinese privet (Ligustrumsinense) and exotic earthworms in the southeast US. Earthworms and selected soil properties were sampled five years after experimental removal of privet from flood plain forests of the Georgia Piedmont region.
Trip Report- TNC Preserves in Shady Valley, Tennessee
Lately we have been placing greater emphasis on getting Bog Learning Network members in the field together to share restoration and management experiences. Earlier this summer, our friends from Georgia hosted a few dozen members and showed some of their rare wetland restoration work. On October 21st, twenty-five BLN members took a day trip to Shady Valley Preserves in Tennessee. Members…
More Not so Good News: Wolf Spiders like living in Microstegium, and they eat alot of amphibians
Thank you to Mincy Moffett for passing this along. Microstegium vimineum (Japanese Stilt Grass) is a plant almost all of us have a tough time dealing with. A new study published in Ecology has found that Microstegium also affects arachnid predators as wolf spiders thrive in the grass. As their populations grow, more spiders then feed on young American toads, ultimately reducing the amphibian’s…
NY Times Article discussess Conflicts of Novel and Traditional Conservation Strategies
This article has been making the rounds lately, but for those that haven’t had a chance to read it. In anticipation of Climate Change, some have been proposing new approaches in conservation such as moving species to new ranges, actively managing wilderness areas, and using non-natives as surrogates for extinct species. However, others prefer to focus on protecting wilderness and classical restoration that keeps ecosystems…
Feature Article: Vegetation of Isolated Montane Non-alluvial Wetlands of the Suthern Blue Ridge of North Carolina
This is an interesting thesis written by Brenda Wichmann. 2009 (Wichmann) Vegetation of geographically isolated montane non-alluvial wetlands of the southern Blue Ridge of North Carolina Abstract – The ecological significance of montane non-alluvial wetlands in the southern Blue Ridge region of North Carolina is well known. However, there is relatively little quantitative documentation of…
Call for Journal Articles
We plan to begin building a database of articles pertinent to bog restoration and management. If you have some literature that you believe would be useful to add to such a library, please email it to me at awarwick@tnc.org. We will set up dropbox if some files are too large to email. We will begin posting articles in this newsletter.
New Article Offers New Information for Battling Reed Canarygrass
Reed Canarygrass is a coarse, cool season perennial grass that grows 2 – 6′ high. It has become a major threat to in ecological integrity of our native wetlands as it forms large, monotypic stands and outcompetes most native plants. Invasion often occurs in concert with disturbances, such as ditch excavation and stream modification. This paper describes a reed canarygrass removal…
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