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Five more spring nature walks planned on Oak Ridge Reservation

Posted at 9:37 pm March 24, 2015
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

Five more nature walks are planned this spring on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Reservation with themes of frog calls and bat monitoring, wildflowers and forest growth, bird watching, invasive plants, reptiles, and amphibians.

The frog calls and bat monitoring walk is scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, April 4, and will be concentrated in the ponds around East Tennessee Technology Park. Wade Gefellers and Kitty McCracken of ORNL’s Environmental Sciences Division will demonstrate how local bat populations are monitored and methods to identify local frog populations based on calls. Participants, limited to 25 with children allowed, will meet at the ETTP visitors overlook parking lot at 7 p.m. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Meetings and Events, Oak Ridge Reservation, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: amphibians, bat monitoring, bird nature walk, Clinch River Environmental Studies Organization, CRESO, East Tennessee Technology Park, Environmental Sciences Division, ETTP, frog calls, Jamie Herold, Jim Evans, John Byrd, Kitty McCracken, Larry Pounds, nature walks, Oak Ridge Reservation, old growth forest walk, ORNL, Paul Durr, reptiles, spring nature walks, spring walk, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, Tracy Clem, Trent Jett, U.S. Department of Energy, Wade Gefellers, wildflower, wildflowers

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