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BLN Annual Meeting 2025 – Save the Date!
The Bog Learning Network annual meeting will be held October 6th & 7th at UNC-Asheville. Our Steering Committee originally decided to postpone this event due to the impacts of Hurricane Helene on the Asheville Community, including our host institution (UNC-A). Since then, due to challenges our federal partners are currently facing with layoffs, in addition…
Extinction & modeling articles from March BLN meeting
In Conservation Biology volume 35, issue 1 (Feb. 2021) is an article titled Vascular plant extinction in the continental United States and Canada, by Wesley M. Knapp, Anne Frances, Reed Noss, Robert F. C. Naczi, Alan Weakley, George D. Gann, Bruce G. Baldwin, James Miller, Patrick McIntyre, Brent D. Mishler, Gerry Moore, Richard G. Olmstead,…
Conserving Southern Appalachian Bogs | The Laurel of Asheville, October 2021
The Laurel of Asheville is a free monthly arts & culture magazine connecting communities across the mountains of Western North Carolina. Check out this October 2021 feature by Emma Castleberry: Conservation: The Importance of the Southern Appalachian Bog – The Laurel of Asheville
New paper: Population models for bog turtles
This paper in Animal Conservation, by Mike Knoerr, Anna Tutterow, Gabrielle Graeter, Shannon Pittman and Kyle Barrett, analyzes population growth rate estimates and management interventions for 5 NC bog turtle sites. When sharing the paper, Mike wrote, “… thank you all for your contributions to this paper… It’s built on the back of decades of…
New Paper: Eastern Box Turtles
Check out this new paper coauthored by BLN steering committee member Gabrielle Graeter, BLN member Ann Berry Somers and their colleagues. AbstractTurtles are in decline worldwide, and the magnitude and recent acceleration of population declines requires immediate action to inform conservation and management plans. Long‐term studies of population trends and characteristics covering multiple populations across…
Bogs in the News, Fall 2020
Hope In the Bog | Garden & Gun magazine, December 2020 -January 2021 issue “In the North Carolina Mountains, biologists work to give North America’s tiniest and rarest turtle a fighting chance” by Lindsey Liles https://gardenandgun.com/articles/saving-the-souths-tiniest-and-rarest-turtles/ Great work by our partners at Tangled Bank Conservation! “Cranberries growing wild in Western North Carolina? Who knew?” by…
Animals We Protect: Bog Turtle
Check out this new feature by Sydney Bezanson, Creative Content Manager for The Nature Conservancy in North Carolina: https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/animals-we-protect/bog-turtle/ “The bog turtle is North America’s smallest turtle, growing only to 4.5 inches in length. Easily recognized by the orange patch on either side of its head, the bog turtle favors open, groundwater-fed wet meadows and…
An Overview of the Southeastern Partners in Plant Conservation 2020
SePPCon 2020 was held at the Atlanta Botanical Garden from March 2-6, 2020. Pre-conference workshops were held in the Garden’s new Southeastern Center for Conservation, home to the Conservation Genetics and Micropropagation Laboratories. The workshops included training in IUCN Red Listing & NatureServe Ranking, Conservation Horticulture, and Seedbanking & Micropropagation. Two keynote speakers set the…
An Update for Sandy Bottom Preserve
To view the full article by K. Chávez, Asheville Citizen Times, click here. Sandy Bottom wetlands to receive protection for ‘national ecological significance’ Karen Chávez, Asheville Citizen Times Published 5:00 a.m. ET Jan. 14, 2020 ASHEVILLE – Do the thousands of drivers who zip down N.C. 191 through Bent Creek each day know they are passing…
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