Photos by Keith Krueger
Photos by Kathy Wright Hardy
- Photo by Kathy Wright Hardy
- Photo by Kathy Wright Hardy
- Photo by Kathy Wright Hardy
- Photo by Kathy Wright Hardy
- Photo by Kathy Wright Hardy
Photos by: Susan Richardson
American Holly (Ilex opaca)

Photo by: Ken Czarnomski
- Photos by: Ken Czarnomski

Photo by: Diane Bauknight

Photo by: Diane Bauknight
Bird Banding with Wild Bird Research Group at the N.C. Arboretum on August 6, 2018.
Photos by P.Reed
“Trail Marker” Trees
- Photo by P. Reed
- Photos by: P. Reed

Catawba rhododendron Photo by Penelope Reed

Bluets Photo by Penelope Reed
The Eastern Hellbender
Photos by Taylor Reed
- Look how well they blend in!
Bluebird Gallery
Photocam pictures from Nancy Newlin
- Launching from the nest
- Flying into the nest.
- Thanks for lunch.
- Bird Love
April 19 Wildflower Walk – GSMNP Baxter Creek
- Fire Pink Photo by David Heavner
- Stonecrop on stump Photo by Jenny Wilker
- Purple Phacelia Photo by Jim Poling
- Trillium luteum Photo by Anita Miller
- Showy Orchis Photo by Jim Poling
- Hooked Buttercup Photo by Jim Poling
- Black Cohosh and Blue Cohosh Foliage Photo by Jenny Wilker
- Foamflower Photo by Bruce Holcombe

Dwarf Crested Iris Photo by Allen Miller

Big Creek
Photo by Bruce Holcombe

Photo by Barbara Harrison
Thousands of Yellow Trillium

Photo by Barbara Harrison
Forest Restoration Alliance and Hemlock Restoration Initiative volunteer work day on March 31st. If you would like to volunteer for future events please see our Citizen Science blog or go to the Hemlock Restoration Initiative website.

Photo by Kathy Hardy

Photo by Kathy Hardy
December 2016, Group Hike to Purchase Knob
Today was a refreshing joy at Purchase Knob. Diane, Barbara, Ann, Donna, Bob, Kurt, and Jim thanks for supplying the journey with your presence. It was a great way to end 2016. Happy New Year!
A Gallery of Feathered Friends, courtesy of James Polling

Yellow Warbler
- American Kestrel
- Eastern Meadowlark Photo by James Poling
- Common Yellowthroat
- Black and White Warbler
Lonnie Crotts and her trail findings

—Photo, Lonnie Crotts
Gray-foot lancetooth (Haplotrema concavum)? If so, it is supposed be a fierce predatory snail, and only one of two species in the East that feeds on other snails.

Photo by Penelope Reed

Photo by Taylor Reed