10/6: Fall Scenery Hike with Bob Gale

Join MountainTrue Ecologist & Public Lands Director Bob Gale for a Fall Scenery Hike to remember. We’ll be doing a light trek on the Pilot Cove Loop up to a rock face with a beautiful vista. If we’re lucky, we’ll get to see some migrating monarch butterflies surfing the warm thermal wind over the outcrop. Though monarch populations have suffered in recent years, we’ve seen a few more this year. So, keep your fingers crossed. Bob will discuss the challenges to their incredible migrating journey, and will also interpret the flora and fauna along the way.

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This is a 3-3/4 mile round-trip loop, which begins along a creek, goes through old growth and other forest communities, and offers distant views. Bob will discuss forestry practices and guide you on walk through a beaver-altered habitat.

Hiking (and resting time): approximately 4 hours. Involves an initial short if somewhat steep climb and a couple of short uphill climbs along a ridge before descending for the second half of the trip.

Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Meet at Earthfare in the Westgate Shopping Center, 66 Westgate Pkwy, Asheville
Cost: Free
Registration Deadline: Monday, October 5th at NOON

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Cane Creek Clean Up

10/20 Tree Planting at Hominy Creek

On Tuesday, Oct 20, help beautify and plant trees on the beach near the Hominy Creek Greenway.  These trees will become a live-staking cultivation site. We’ll be able to cut branches from them in the future to use as live stakes, which will help stabilize river banks and keep sediment pollution from entering the river.

Come out and get your hands dirty for the river! Sign up here.

9/17: Mt. Hardy – Wolf Mountain Day Hike

Join MountainTrue, the Asheville History Center and NC Botanical Society founder Dan Pittillo on this day hike along the Bartram Trail to discover the natural world as William Bartram might have done: through identification of plants and observation. You’ll learn more about Bartram himself and the impact of early Naturalists on contemporary ecology. The trip departs from Asheville History Center, 283 Victoria Road at 9 a.m. and will return at 5 p.m.

$35 members; $50 non-members – Transportation, snacks and water provided; participants should pack a lunch.

Reservations are required. To save your spot, email smh@wnchistory.org or call 828-253-9231.

*Please note: Moderate walking of one mile or less on uneven surfaces is a requirement of this trip.

10/8: Annual Gathering for Members and Supporters

10/7: “Greenways and Bikeways” panel discussion

The Sierra Club, Green Drinks and MountainTrue will present “Greenways and Bikeways,” a panel moderated by Asheville Vice-Mayor Marc Hunt, on Asheville-Buncombe’s efforts to create a county-wide network of greenways and bikeways.

Wednesday, October 7 at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place (corner of Charlotte and Edwin) For more information, contact Judy Mattox at judymattox@sbcglobal.net.