Last updated April 2006
Friday, April 28-Sunday, April 30 - Carolina Bird Club spring meeting in Asheville.
Saturday, April 29 at 2 pm - A Passion for Native Plant Gardening - the 7th Annual Evelyn McNeill Sims Native Plant Lecture at the North Carolina Botanical Garden (http://ncbg.unc.edu/pages/28/).
Saturday-Sunday, 29-30 April - The North Carolina Herpetological Society Spring Meeting will be held at the William D. Stedman Education Center, North Carolina Zoological Park, Asheboro, NC. Park at the North America parking lot. Admission to the Zoo will be free for NCHS meeting attendees. See http://www.nczoo.org/ for more information about the NC Zoo. Maps are available at the Zoo's website.
Thursday, May 4 - New Hope Audubon Society meeting "Flora and Fauna of El Salvador" by Loren Hintz.
Sunday, May 7 - Visit Stefan Bloodworth's (curator of the Bloomquist Garden at Duke) family property with the Margaret Reid Chapter of the NC Native Plant Society (formerly Triangle Chapter, serving Raleigh, Durham, Cary and surrounding areas). Contact Margaret Partridge (margaret at ncwildflower.org) for directions and meeting time for specific sites.
Saturday, May 13, 8-11 am - Mother's Day Walk at Mason Farm Biological Reserve. Guide: Johnny Randall, conservation ecologist for the NC Botanical Garden, and Cynthia Fox of the Wild Bird Center. (http://ncbg.unc.edu/pages/69/)
Saturday, June 3, 10:00 a.m. - Johnston Mill, Summer Stroll - a Land Trust Day event! Enjoy a cool, shady morning stroll at Johnston Mill as naturalists Patrick Coin & Ginger Travis illuminate the sights and sounds of summer in this New Hope Creek bottomland forest. Register at the Triangle Land Conservancy website (http://www.tlc-nc.org/calendar.shtml). Limit: 30.
Every Thursday, 10 AM - Mason Farm volunteer crew combatting invasive exotic plants
(contact Kristen Sinclair <kes at email.unc.edu> or 962-0522).
Every Wednesday, 2 PM - Green Dragons volunteer crew at the Coker Arboretum and Mason Farm
(contact Johnny Randall <jrandall at email.unc.edu>).
Every Saturday, 8:15 AM - Bird walk at Little River Regional Park.
Every Saturday, 7:30 AM, Fall, Winter, and Spring - Chapel Hill Bird Club bird walk.
Meet in the parking lot of the Glen Lennox Shopping Center on the north side of NC 54 just east of US 15-501.
Every other Saturday, 8 AM - New Hope Audubon Society/Wild Bird Center bird walk.
Meet at the Wild Bird Center in Eastgate Shopping Center, Chapel
Hill.
First and third Saturday of every month - Sierra Club (Headwaters/Durham Chapter) workday on the American Tobacco Trail.
First Saturday of every month - Wild Blues volunteer crew at Penny's Bend Nature Preserve
(contact Wayne Cash <waycash at earthlink.net> or 477-8936).
First Saturday of every month (except July and August) - Volunteer crew at Battle Park
(contact Stephen Keith <skeith at email.unc.edu> or call 962-0522).
First Saturday of every month - Wake Audubon Society Bagels and Birding on the Buckeye Trail.
Second Saturday of every month - Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association workday.
Second Saturday of every month - Triangle Land Conservancy workday in the Margaret Reid Wildflower Garden in Raleigh.
Second and fourth Tuesday of every month - NC Museum of Natural Sciences hike at Prairie Ridge.
Third Saturday of every month - Friends of Bolin Creek/Sierra Club (Orange/Chatham Chapter) workday on the Bolin Creek Greenway Trail.
Third Saturday of every month - Wake Audubon Society Anderson Point Avian Adventures.
Last Saturday of every month - Eno River Association trail workday at Little River Regional Park.
DNHS-affiliated events are in bold face. For non-DNHS events, see the website of the group sponsoring the trip (via our links page) for exact meeting times and places, and whether fees, advance registration or reservations are required. For events at West Point on the Eno, Eno River State Park, Little River Regional Park, or Occoneechee Mountain, see the Eno River Association website. For all bird counts, see the Chapel Hill Bird Club website for contact info.