{"id":95642,"date":"2024-04-04T13:04:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T17:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=95642"},"modified":"2024-04-04T13:54:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T17:54:16","slug":"lunchtime-discovery-bryan-england","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/lunchtime-discovery-bryan-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunchtime Discovery: \u201cThis Pea-vine Country\u201d: Rediscovering \u201cWild Peavine\u201d Paradise in a Parking Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bryan England<\/strong>, Preserve Manager, Annie Louise Wilkerson MD Nature Preserve Park, City of Raleigh Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department<\/em><\/p>\n

Historical accounts depict a time when central North Carolina was a land of \u201cvast prairies, with pea-vine grass,\u201d back \u201cwhen everybody thought this pea-vine country was a sort of new Garden of Eden.\u201d But a short time later they wrote that the wild peavine had \u201cutterly disappeared\u201d from the Carolina Piedmont.\u00a0 What was this paradise plant?\u00a0 Could the historic wild peavine landscape reappear at Wilkerson Nature Preserve and other places in North Carolina?\u00a0 Join us for a talk about ecological history and to see how it is never too late to give peas a chance.<\/p>\n

Join us on YouTube!<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Live Virtual Presentation hosted by NC Museum of Natural Sciences’ SECU Daily Planet Curator Chris Smith and the NC Department of Environmental Quality Office of Environmental Education and Public Affairs staff.<\/em><\/p>\n

You can post questions in the YouTube chat or tweet questions to #LunchTimeDiscovery and mention @NorthCarolinaEE.<\/p>\n

Brought to you by the NC DEQ Office of Environmental Education and Public Affairs and the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bryan England, Preserve Manager, Annie Louise Wilkerson MD Nature Preserve Park, City of Raleigh Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department Historical accounts depict a time when central North Carolina was a land of \u201cvast prairies, with pea-vine grass,\u201d back \u201cwhen everybody thought this pea-vine country was a sort of new Garden of Eden.\u201d But a… Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3,13,164,6,15,170,173],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/95642"}],"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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/95642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95642"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=95642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}