Join education coordinator Michelle Campanis and naturalist Stephen Lyn Bales via Zoom for Songs of Summer Insects on Thursday, August 1, 7 p.m.
We will look at our local insects and …
Wildflowers abloom in the Smokies
I enjoyed a beautiful hike from the Wear Gap Road parking lot to the Metcalf Bottoms Trail, to the Walker Sisters Cabin and Greenbrier Trail.
If you begin your hike from …
Pollinator gardens for solar arrays
Going green takes on extra meaning when a solar array gets established in a pollinator garden. As the nation’s energy needs necessitate more distributed energy resources, and as millions more …
Sequoia is really that big & old
My cousin-in-law, Arvi, sent a picture reminding me of the sequoia trees’ immensity, so I went here plus some other sites to be reminded of their history.
Europeans officially discovered the …
Flowers on the Middle Prong Trail
Hiking on Monday, July 15, 2024, took me by the Lynn Camp Prong Cascades on the Middle Prong Trail. I hiked from the beginning of the Middle Prong Trail to …
Education benefits from East Tennessee Golf Classic
It was the perfect day for playing a little golf, goofing around a bit but mainly raising money for education at the East Tennessee Golf Classic! Thank you East Tennessee …
Old-fashioned ice box concept inspires energy storage ideas
Your great-grandmother’s ice box, keeping milk cool with a block of cut ice, could be inspiring the next generation of energy storage. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, or NREL, along …
Daybreak clouds at the South Toe River Valley
Mysterious, captivating and exquisite, a morning in the mountains with clouds rising from the valley floor provides a mesmerizing view of atmospheric wonder.
The senses of the photographer are sharpened and …