Other Presentations

Every presentation is aimed at a different audience, but the theme is the same: how our forests can save us if we can save them:

• Spotswood Garden Club, Bridgewater, VA. It was on Valentine’s Day, 2020, so i featured the recent trend of women around the world marrying trees to save them.
• VA Master Naturalists, Sept. 2019 Annual Rally, Massanetta Springs Conference Center, Virginia, a stately and historic venue with just enough mold spores to catch in my throat, but still lovely to be there.
• JMU Faculty Emeriti, most of whom I knew from my 31 years at JMU, Feb., 2019
• Climate Action Alliance for the Valley, “Our Forests ARE our Future,” Nov., 2018.
• Eastern Mennonite University Biology Class, March, 2018.
• Sustainable Floyd, “Save the Planet, Get Rich … through forest conservation?” Nov., 2017.
• Afton Chapter, VA Master Naturalists, “The Great and Seriously Uncommon Appalachian Forest Commons.” July, 2017.
• Appalachian Studies Assn., “The Great Appalachian Carbon Commons,” March, 2017.
• Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards, “An Appalachian Journey from wilderness to Wilderness.” Oct., 2015.
• Readers Read Series, Eastern Mennonite University, Nov. 2014
• VA Sierra Club, “Developing a Southern Appalachian WWIMBY Response: Welcoming Wilderness in my Backyard.” Sept., 2014.
• "Developing a WWIMBY movement: Welcoming Wilderness in My Back Yard". 50th Wilderness Act Anniversary Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Oct. 2014
• Eastern Mennonite University Biology Class, “An Appalachian Journey: from wilderness to Wilderness.” Jan., 2014
• VA Environmental Educators Conference, Oct. 2013
• Colonial Garden Club, Harrisonburg, Dec. 2012
• Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge, July, 2012
• Virginia Forum (Historical Analysis), Harrisonburg, March, 2012
• Virginia Festival of the Book, 2012
• A Celebration of Wilderness, Blacksburg and Harrisonburg, 2012 (sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service)
• Maryland Native Plant Society Annual Conference, 2012 (one of three keynote speakers)
• Pinchot Institute for Conservation
• Hollins University Guest Lectures
• Washington & Lee University Luncheon Seminars
• Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources Seminar Seriesv
• Radford University Guest Lectures
• Eastern Shore (MD) “Journeys Home” Lecture Series
• Highlands (NC) Biological Research Station, Zahner Lecture Series
• Shenandoah National Park Nature Writing Workshop
• Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project
• Mt. Rogers Naturalist Rally (when I emailed my husband about this upcoming talk, I made a type and he thought it was Mr. Roger’s neighborhood).
• Wildlands Conference
• Sierra Club Appalachian Task Force
• Appalachian Restoration Campaign
• Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition
• Nature Conservancy, Virginia Chapter
• Western North Carolina Alliance
• Georgia Forest Watch
• Potomac Valley Audubon Society
• Woodland Owners of the Southern Alleghenies
• Montebello Clean Mountain Coalition
• 6th Mountain Lion Workshop
• The Bergton Ruritan Club (one of the attendees walked out when I mentioned erosion from logging).
• An unnamed commune in western NC (they may have named themselves by now but I’ve lost touch and wouldn’t know how to contact them).