EcoAddendum

Join Eco-A and co-host Susan Edwards for a seasonal series of walks featuring the special qualities of some of our common plant friends. Susan will introduce us to the edible and medicinal qualities of some of our most common trees and “weeds” – some you may be surprised to find growing along a sidewalk, fence or in your own backyard. Farewell to Summer: the Goldenrods We'll celebrate the final hoorah to summer by learning the myriad values of the beautiful…

Eco-A joins Friends of Cascade Springs Nature Preserve and West Atlanta Watershed Alliance and invite you to join your friends and neighbors for a Stewardship Training learn/work session -- learning the trees, plants and native ecosystem of Cascade Springs Nature Preserve. We'll have an urban forest orientation to the unusually high value of this premiere park, followed by a training on how to recognize and remove invasive species such as Japanese chaff flower, privet, autumn olive, and others. You'll learn the native trees and…

This walk is full, now taking wait list Join us for a naturalist and photography walk at Roswell's Leita Thompson Park. Leita Thompson (1884-1978) was one of the first female banking executives in the US. As a teenager she was a suffragette and became a strong supporter of working women at a time when women were discouraged from professional careers. She left her 107-acre forested retreat, later her home, to the City of Roswell dedicated as a park. The 2-mile loop…

Join Eco-A for a volunteer session to continue the efforts to keep Grove Park healthy and restore its native biodiversity. Work alongside neighbors and friends to help heal this special old growth forest remnant in Bankhead. Master Naturalist Kathryn Kolb will lead a brief training session on how to identify high value native species as well as how to identify and safely remove invasive plant species that threaten the integrity of the forest.  The volunteer session will focus primarily on…

Note: Because our Stewardship walk at Frazer Forest takes place at the same time as the Frazer Center's annual Fall Festival, our walk is rescheduled for 3:00 pm as part of Fall Festival activities, which you're welcome to attend! We'll still have a short volunteer work session after the walk - for about 1 hr.  Join Master Naturalist Kathryn Kolb for an informative and interactive Frazer Forest walk and Stewardship session. This time of year when the leaves begin to…

Fall is a great time to tune into the amazing forms and colors of the leaves of our native trees, and this walk takes us to the 21-acre Briarlake Forest. We'll focus on both the art of the natural forms we find and on how to identify trees by their patterns and designs -- sometimes using our artistic eye can be very helpful for science. Kathryn Kolb combines both skills as a naturalist and fine art nature photographer, and she will…

Join Eco-A for a tree diversity walk and volunteer session in one of Atlanta’s special remnant old-growth forests. Master Naturalist Kathryn Kolb will share tips on how to identify a variety of different tree species. The diversity of tree species is one of the characteristics that makes this greenspace so special.   After an informative walk we will work together to remove invasive English Ivy, targeting forest trees affected by this climbing vine. English Ivy blocks critical sunlight that is important…

Eco-A's Kathryn Kolb, and James Tyler, with Friends of Lionel Hampton-Beecher Hills Nature Preserve, continue leading our Stewardship training series, focusing on identifying invasive species and how to distinguish “starts” of invasive species from native species such as Wild Ginger and Greenbrier. We’ll head off the beaten path and celebrate fall color with a tree ID refresher and share information about the native plants we find as well. For a fun, quick refresher on tree species ID by leaves, see our ForestMatch…