The City of Huntsville’s Best Kept Secret
Enjoy the day by the beautiful Flint River
Event Times
7:30 Birding Hike with Drs. Dick Modlin & Marian Lewis (bring binocs).
10:00 Reptile Show with Bill Cruger (you can hold them too!)
11:30 Rare and endangered mammals with Dr. Bloome (who brings new critters every year—two very small baby black bears this year)
1:00 Ecohike with Forestry Professionals from the Society of American Foresters—Mountain Lakes Chapter
1:30 Release of rehabilitated hawks or owls (tentative)
2:00 Cherokee Indian Mother Drum--A Native American Spirituality Ceremony. Gene Thomas, of Cherokee descent, will have friends join him in honoring the earth with ceremony using a mother drum. Especially for children, they will also offer a "candy dance" experience.
2:30 Second Ecohike with Forestry Professionals at Hays Preserve.
“” Exploratory ecohike to Goldsmith Schiffman Wildlife Sanctuary.
All Forestry hikes will begin at the SAF exhibit. Exploratory ecohike at Goldsmith Schiffman Wildlife Sanctuary with Ecologist Soos Weber will begin at the big tent. Earth friendly exhibitors, vendors and conservation groups are set up in the Exhibit Area, as well as Earth Scope Teachers with games for young children. Food is available courtesy of the Boy Scouts of America—Jarrod and Korey Hardy aspiring to their Eagle Scout badges by doing trail projects at the Preserve. Please buy your lunch or drinks from them at the Coke Wagon.
If you are injured at the Preserve or Sanctuary, or have a question please call Soos Weber on her Cell at 509-1219. During regular (weekday) office hours please call her at 427-5116.
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