{"id":118449,"date":"2026-01-29T11:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=118449"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:46:49","slug":"lifelong-hike-picture-creek-5","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/lifelong-hike-picture-creek-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifelong Hike: Picture Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We will hike through the world\u2019s largest population of the federally endangered smooth coneflower in peak bloom during this visit to the Picture Creek nature preserve.\u00a0 This power line corridor through a unique diabase geologic area gives us a good sense of what the piedmont prairies were like in earlier times. You will see wildflowers here that you don\u2019t see in most areas of the piedmont.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Please note:<\/strong> You will be required to enter the following information for each registrant before you can complete your registration: emergency contact, physician contact and health information (allergies, conditions, medications relevant to this field experience). Take a moment to gather this information before beginning your registration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>REGISTRATION FOR THIS TRIP IS FULL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the trip is full, please email <a href=\"mailto:melissa.chernick@naturalsciences.org\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Missy Chernick<\/span><\/strong><\/a> to be added to the waitlist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration deadline: <\/strong>Monday, June 1 at 7:00 AM<\/p>\n<p>For additional information about this trip and other <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/events\/category\/event-types\/trips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lifelong Hikes &amp; Adventures<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, contact <a href=\"mailto:jerry.reynolds@naturalsciences.org\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jerry Reynolds<\/span><\/strong><\/a> at 919.707.9884.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will hike through the world\u2019s largest population of the federally endangered smooth coneflower in peak bloom during this visit to the Picture Creek nature preserve.\u00a0 This power line corridor through a unique diabase geologic area gives us a good sense of what the piedmont prairies were like in earlier times. You will see wildflowers&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/lifelong-hike-picture-creek-5\/\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3,92,246,19],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/118449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/118449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119614,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/118449\/revisions\/119614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118449"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=118449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}