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Empowering Environmental Advocacy

Tuesday, June 15, 2021 -- Register NOW

Tennessee Naturalist Program is honored to present:

Empowering Environmental Advocacy

A workshop that explores effective strategies for conservation advocates to influence government policy.
June 15, 2021 from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm CST

As environmentalists, when we see nature being destroyed, we respond with passion. How can we use this passion to drive real change in our systems? Using local examples, we will explore the public policy making process, with the aim of steering participants towards an empowered position in environmental advocacy at the state and local level.

Workshop Leaders:

Noah Charney (photo on left) is the Executive Director of Radnor to River in Nashville and an Assistant Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Maine. He has worked for over 15 years on environmental advocacy in Nashville and has published extensively in the field of conservation biology.

Stewart Clifton is a former member of the Metro Nashville Council (12 years) and the Metro Nashville Planning Commission (16 years). He is currently a lobbyist and consultant on state level environmental issues with Tennessee Conservation Voters and a consultant to Radnor-2-River.

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Sponsored: Continuing Education Workshop Tennessee Naturalist Program

Workshop via Zoom -- 1.5 CE Credits

Fee: $10 per person — Public invited

Workshop Leaders: (Left) Noah Charney and Stewart Clifton

Mussel Biology and Ecology Class

Thursday, August 5th from 9:00 am – 2:30 pm

Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge
550 Refuge Lane, New Johnsonville, TN 37134

Cost: $40/person — 5 hours CE Credit
Credits issued by the Tennessee Naturalist Program

Let’s “Mussel Up” to the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge for this brand new TNP Continuing Education course teaming the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to provide instruction on the life, ecology and conservation efforts of these amazing aquatic species. Join us as TWRA mussel biologist David Sims conducts a 5- hour field class at the confluence of the Duck and Tennessee Rivers. Past surveys have found 35 species of mussels along one mile of refuge shoreline at this location making it the perfect place to learn about and identify multiple species.

REGISTRATION is available to current TNP Students and Alumni from June 4 - 15 and open to the general public afterwards. Bring your lunch, water, shoes that can get wet and muddy, hat and sunscreen. Come prepared to get wet, at least from the waist down as we will be “toe digging” for mussels.

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Surprising Medicinal Stories
of Five Native Plants

Monday, June 14, 2021
6:00pm EDT - 5:00pm CST
with Erika Galentin
Online via Zoom
Meeting link

FREE and Open to the Public - Presented by Tennessee Valley Wild Ones
Join Clinical Herbalist and native-plant enthusiast, Erika Galentin of Sovereignty Herbs, for a fun and refreshing exploration of 5 native plants that have an usual and surprising history of medicinal use. Learn a bit of botany, ecology, and herbalism in this unique class.
Erika Galentin, MNIMH, RH (AHG) is a Clinical Herbalist consulting from Sovereignty Herbs in Athens & Columbus, OH.

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Tennessee Naturalist Program, Inc.
P.O. Box 682924
Franklin, TN 37068-2924

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Empowering Environmental Advocacy

Tuesday, June 15, 2021 -- Register NOW

Surprising Medicinal Stories of Five Native Plants

SUPPORT OUR MISSION

Surprising Medicinal Stories
of Five Native Plants