Carol Enarson, CCCG, Master Gardener

…Gardener course at the Orange County Extension Office in Hillsborough in order to expand her knowledge relating to horticulture. Enarson explained that by becoming an Orange County Extension Master Gardener…

Dr. John Loomis Blodgett

…Dec. 1st, 1837. Rev. A.B. Lawrence: It is not often that we have an opportunity of sending letters to America, an apology which I offer for sending so few. Nothing…

Visitation

…will be sent. In order to control herbarium pests, incoming specimens to the Vascular Herbarium are frozen for 48 hours or more. Users of the collection who bring specimens in…

CCG Volunteer Spotlight: Simone

…our compost leaders and even continued to volunteer when she was back during breaks from college! When the stay-at-home order began in the spring and Simone had to return home,…

New boardwalk open at Mason Farm

We’re thrilled to announce the completion of a 450-foot boardwalk at Mason Farm Biological Reserve that enables visitors to again travel the full 1.8-mile Old Farm Trail. Mason Farm Biological…

Wade Thomas Batson, Jr.

…Year Award; 1976, Education Conservationist of the Year by South Carolina Wildlife Federation; 1982, Order of the Palmetto Award presented by Governor Richard Riley who hosted his Retirement Party at…

John R. Bozeman

…tree. Tipularia (November 1986): 9. SOURCES 1. Radford, Laurie Stewart. 1998. The history of the Herbarium of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 1908-1998. Chapel Hill: The…

George Andrew Christenberry

(3 September 1915 – 21 April 2009) Photo: Augusta College Yearbook, 1978 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates 36 specimens collected by George Andrew Christenberry,…

Carnivorous Conservation

…Carl Linnaeus, a famous 18th-century botanist who developed the modern method of assigning species scientific names, dubbed flytraps “against the order of nature as willed by God.” But Charles Darwin…

Edward Avery McIlhenny

…31: 433-438. McIlhenny, E. A. 1940. A record of birds banded at Avery Island, Louisiana during the years 1937, 1938 and 1939. Bird-Banding 11(3): 105-109. McIlhenny, E. A. 1940. Sex…