After the High Knob Chapter Meeting last night, the following events have been shared with the group. If you are interested in volunteering, contact the appropriate person listed below.
The Southern Regional Extension Forestry Webinar on Oak Tree Decline is Wednesday, October 9 at 1 pm. You can view it on your home computer (for continuing education credit), or thanks to Phil Meeks, you may come to the Wise Extension Office tomorrow afternoon and join a group of us to participate. The web page for the webinar is http://www.forestrywebinars.net/webinars/oak-decline-in-the-united-states.
The Cloudsplitter 100 is this weekend, October 12-13. We have several volunteers to help monitor the race station at Bark Camp Lake, but if any others would like to help, contact Beth Walker.
Phil Meeks announced that he and others plan to do some trail maintenance Tuesday, October 15, on the one-mile Phillips Creek Loop, near Cane Patch. If you would like to help, please email Phil Meeks for times and meeting locations.
Also, on October 15, the Friends of The Cedars will have their regular monthly meeting at 6 pm at the Daniel Boone Soil and Water Conservation office in Jonesville. For more information you can contact Jolene Lambert.
We can use more volunteers for our booth at MECC Home Craft Days on October 19 – 20. The hours on both Saturday and Sunday are 10 am to 6 pm. If you can volunteer for 1 or 2 hours (or more) and did not sign up last night, please contact Chris Allgyer.
Also, on October 19th from 11 am- 3 pm, Natural Tunnel State Park will be hosting several children’s activities for Halloween, and are in need of volunteers to help with these. If anyone is interested, please contact Rachel Blevins.
Master Naturalist Adam Boring gave an outstanding presentation on mushrooms at our meeting last night. He also invited interested members to assist with the North American Mycoflora Project Continental MycoBlitz Week 2, October 20 to 27. You can find out more at www.mycoflora.org. Adam plans to hike and search for mushrooms throughout that week and you are welcome to join him. He’s on Facebook or you can email him.