EcoAddendum

Join us for our second Japanese Chaff Flower/Stewardship Walk & volunteer workday at Hidden Cove Park in the Decatur/Druid Hills area near Westchester Elementary School. Note: Participation in this Stewardship session counts as credit toward completion of our new on-line Eco-Literacy course. We’ll begin with an urban forest orientation to the unusually high value of greenspaces in our area, including how to recognize the value of this park near Druid Hills. We'll have a training and work session on how…

Eco-A again offers, in partnership with Susan Edwards, a seasonal series of walks featuring the special qualities of some of our common plants. Susan will introduce us to the edible and medicinal qualities of easily found trees and “weeds” – some you may be surprised to find growing along a sidewalk, fence or in your own backyard.    Greenbrier vines, photo © Kathryn Kolb Come join Eco-A and co-host Susan Edwards to delight in the tendriled wonders of the medicinal…

Join EcoA and the Georgia Tech Trailblazers for a session of Japanese Chaff Flower removal along the trails at Morningside Park. We'll of course include some naturalist training and we'll provide tools. This park is heavily used by dog-walkers, which is how Japanese Chaff Flower is spreading so quickly on our parks and yards. This park definitely needs your help! Morningside Nature Preserve is located in the neighborhood near the intersection of Piedmont and Cheshire Bridge Roads, and it hosts a…

Eco-A partners with James Tyler and Friends of Lionel Hampton-Beecher Hills Nature Preserve for a Stewardship naturalist education & volunteer work session. Note: Participation in this Stewardship session counts as credit toward completion of our on-line Eco-Literacy course, click here for details. We'll walk about 1.5 to 2 miles on natural trails to look for and eradicate patches of invasive species, while also learning how to ID special species that indicate character of the forest in different locations. Everyone learns something new on every walk, and…

The new Bear Creek Nature Center and trails complex is located in South Fulton County at the same location as the previous Cochran Mills Nature Center. We'll start at the visitor's center parking lot and walk about 3 miles along trails that include the Bear Creek trail, rock outcrops and a waterfall on Little Bear Creek. We'll enjoy the diverse forest in these rocky woods with several stream crossings and overlooks. We'll likely see early fall leaf color of Winged…

We invite Eco-A volunteers, neighbors and friends of Grove Park to participate in the continued restoration efforts of this special and unique remnant old-growth forest. We'll focus on knocking out a small section of remaining Kudzu and cut English Ivy from trees in the streamside forest. We'll show how to recognize high-value forest areas by the trees and plants we find and we'll end with a short walk to a beautiful section of Proctor Creek or possibly walk thru the high…

In forestry "mast" refers to the fruits of woody plants, especially the nuts produced by trees. Much of our native wildlife depend on on the trees that produce nuts including bears, deer, wild turkeys, ruffed grouse, raccoons, foxes, as well as squirrels, chipmunks and smaller forest mammals. Humans in times past depended on the nuts of these tree species as well, and humans have been eating acorns far longer than they've been eating wheat.   Join us in learning what the squirrels…

Pine Mountain is an unusual ridge that stands above the landscape in West Central Georgia reaching nearly from the Chattahoochee to the Flint River. It's located near the town of Warm Springs, which was the cherished healthful, get-away of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It has been suggested that FDR's depression-era concept of the New Deal may have been born from his relationship to the land and people of this corner of Georgia. The geology of Pine Mountain is unusual because it's something of a marooned landform, not…