Calling all naturalists, amateurs and professionals! The Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is home to thousands of acres of protected forest called the Core Areas. Originally designated under the World Biosphere Program decades ago, many of the original surveys and documents that made these areas worthy of distinction have been lost. While a few of these areas, like the Devil’s Backbone State Natural Area, are well known, there are many others -sometimes only a few acres in size- that have no survey records at all. On the weekend of April 12-13, our volunteers will explore a selection of the core areas to conduct informal surveys of their flora, fauna, and other characteristics. These habitats are diverse, ranging from wetlands and interior forest to small open lands. Our work will help the new management at the LBL in giving a face to these important but still little known places. This is a great opportunity to support one of the great public lands of our regions in a time of budget and staff cuts in our federal lands management agencies.
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