Monarch Migration Magic with Native Plants
The Dogwood Center at Knoxville Botanical Gardens, 2817 Boyds Bridge Pike, Knoxville, TN, 37914 Map
Live Stream Available
Public Welcome Family-Friendly Recording Available Free Event Program/Speaker Presentation Public Restroom Free Public Parking
The monarch migration baffled scientists for decades. Almost a century later we're using new tools to discover details of how they make a journey of over 2,000 miles from Canada to Mexico. With both old and new tools, you can help research this iconic and vulnerable species. And like Appalachian Trail hikers receiving trail magic on their 2200 mile journey, you can support monarchs with migration magic when they pass through your community. Presented by Steve McGaffin of Zoo Knoxville.
About Steve:
As a child, Steve enjoyed exploring nature in his neighborhood, camping with his family and watching nature and outdoor adventure documentaries. His love of mountains inspired him to earn a BS in Biology as a Naturalist from Appalachian State University while leading climbing, caving and backpacking trips for ASU and local camps. After college he lived in upstate New York and eastern Pennsylvania, working as an outdoor and environmental educator before moving to Tennessee to be a Teacher/Naturalist at Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont. In 1994 during an all-night encounter with a bear he learned about the Education Department at Zoo Knoxville. He started as Outreach Coordinator nine months later, eventually becoming Education Curator in 2013. He started studying butterflies in 2009 which led to his interest in native plants. In 2013 he started the Tennessee Butterfly Monitoring Network with the help of a few volunteers. In 2020 he signed on to coordinate our region's annual City Nature Challenge project. Steve loves almost everything that he's allergic to, and lots of other things.
Livestream also available; register for Zoom link.
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IMPORTANT: This seminar is in a different building than our usual meeting location at the Carriage House. We will be meeting at the Dogwood Center.
2817 Boyds Bridge Pike
Knoxville, TN 37914
Enter the gravel driveway at the corner of Wimpole Avenue and Houston Street and follow the path down and around to the left. You will fully circle around the Dogwood Center and arrive at the adjacent parking lot.
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REGISTER HERE: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/monarch-migration-magic-with-native-plants