Join enthusiastic mushroom hunter and Balsm Mountain Naturalist, Gina Patton, for an introduction to Western North Carolina's summer mushrooms. This will be a casual, educational hike, NOT a forage, but feel free to bring a basket and mushroom knife to collect samples for identification or spore printing. Meet at 3pm in the parking lot. If […]
Join Gina, Balsam Mountain Trust Naturalist, to meet some of our ambassador animals and learn all about amphibians and reptiles (Geared toward children but adults are welcome).
Do you love native plants and wildflowers but find it hard to tell one from the other? Come learn some tips for how to draw and record the beautiful plants you meet in the woods from Balsam Mountain Trust Naturalist and art enthusiast, Gina Patton. Gina’s passion is finding the intersection between art and nature […]
Calling all book and nature lovers, artists, scientists, poets… Join us on the second Thursday of each month for a community nature adventure where we discuss The Forest Unseen by David Haskell, create and observe our own nature plots, and explore the wild world. Contact Amy Duggins, BMT’s Community Science Coordinator, to sign up at […]
The Jackson County Public Library will host Dr. Michael Wall of Balsam Mountain Trust for a presentation on moths. Moths, mysterious fairies of the night, are incredibly diverse. For every species of butterfly, there are at least seven species of their (mostly) nocturnal cousins, moths. Pollinators, prey, herbivores, and sometime predators, moths are critical to […]
Come learn about the amazing adaptations of North America’s only marsupial and meet Balsam Mountain Trust’s awesome opossum ambassador, Hazel the tailless opossum.
Experience Pinnacle Park at night, when our scaly-winged friends come out to play. We'll be kicking off National Moth Week with "night-lights" set up around the Forest Therapy Trail to attract and photograph moths. You'll learn about moths and other creatures of the night, and how you can contribute to community science projects that are […]
Join Gina, Balsam Mountain Trust Naturalist, to meet some of our ambassador animals and learn all about amphibians and reptiles (Geared toward children but adults are welcome).
Calling all book and nature lovers, artists, scientists, poets… Join us on the second Thursday of each month for a community nature adventure where we discuss The Forest Unseen by David Haskell, create and observe our own nature plots, and explore the wild world. Contact Amy Duggins, BMT’s Community Science Coordinator, to sign up at […]
Calling all nature-lovers, tree-herders, and hobbits-at-heart. Join BMT’s Community Science Coordinator and resident elf Amy Duggins for a slow ramble through the enchanted woods at Pinnacle Park to learn about all things arboreal. We’ll take in the forest with all our senses and end our hike with a refreshing ent-draught. You might just find yourself […]
