{"id":93163,"date":"2024-01-19T14:55:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=93163"},"modified":"2024-01-23T15:42:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T20:42:59","slug":"lifelong-longleaf-hike-bw-wells-savanna","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/lifelong-longleaf-hike-bw-wells-savanna\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifelong Longleaf Hike: BW Wells Savanna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our spring hikes will be in the land of the Longleaf Pine in partnership with the North Carolina Botanical Garden\u2019s Saving Our Savannas program series. <strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The Botanical Garden, with partner organizations, has developed an exciting schedule of hikes, lectures, and workshops covering the history, ecology, and culture of longleaf pine communities.\u00a0 Learn more about this exciting program series at\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/ncbg.unc.edu\/longleaf\"><em>https:\/\/ncbg.unc.edu\/longleaf<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We will explore the story of the loss of the \u201cBig Savannah\u201d and the later discovery of a surviving remnant savanna nearby.\u00a0 It was Dr. B.W. Wells\u2019 chance discovery of this unique habitat on a train trip from Raleigh to Wilmington in 1920 that sparked a lifelong passion that led him to become the pioneer ecologist of his time.\u00a0 The Big Savannah was a botanical delight as the \u201cmost beautiful natural wildflower garden in the eastern United States\u201d\u2014in continuous bloom with a succession of wildflowers through every month of the year except January.\u00a0 Though the Big Savannah is gone, we will visit the B.W. Wells Savanna in Pender County.\u00a0 Sometimes called the \u201cghost of the Big Savannah\u201d, this 117-acre NC Coastal Land Trust preserve gives you a taste of what the 1500-acre Big Savannah was like before it was lost to agricultural development.<\/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 IS FULL FOR THIS TRIP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the trip is full, please email <a href=\"mailto:melissa.chernick@naturalsciences.org\">Missy Chernick<\/a> to be added to the waitlist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration deadline:\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, March 18 @ 7:00 AM<\/p>\n<p>For additional information about this trip and other Lifelong Hikes &amp; Adventures, contact <a href=\"mailto:jerry.reynolds@naturalsciences.org\">Jerry Reynolds<\/a> at 919.707.9884.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our spring hikes will be in the land of the Longleaf Pine in partnership with the North Carolina Botanical Garden\u2019s Saving Our Savannas program series. \u00a0The Botanical Garden, with partner organizations, has developed an exciting schedule of hikes, lectures, and workshops covering the history, ecology, and culture of longleaf pine communities.\u00a0 Learn more about this&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/lifelong-longleaf-hike-bw-wells-savanna\/\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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\/93163"}],"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=93163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/93163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93163"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=93163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}