{"id":31628,"date":"2020-05-21T11:20:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=31628"},"modified":"2020-05-21T13:16:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T17:16:20","slug":"annual-event-brings-people-close-to-nature-or-nature-close-to-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/annual-event-brings-people-close-to-nature-or-nature-close-to-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual event brings people close to nature \u2014 or nature close to people"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"well span3 pull-right\">\n<div id=\"attachment_31631\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"404\" data-attachment-id=\"31631\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/annual-event-brings-people-close-to-nature-or-nature-close-to-people\/poisonivy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/05\/poisonivy.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"499,404\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"poisonivy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/05\/poisonivy.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-31631 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/05\/poisonivy.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/05\/poisonivy.jpg 499w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/05\/poisonivy-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/05\/poisonivy-247x200.jpg 247w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2020\/05\/poisonivy-494x400.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eastern Poison Ivy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From May 11-15, about 300 people from Alaska to England headed out into nature and made 11,388 observations of 2,787 plant, bird, mammal or reptile species.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For most of the week, the No. 1 species sent in was poison ivy but, by the time it was all over, Christmas Fern was in the top spot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looks like we all need to do a little gardening and poison ivy thinning in our yards,&#8221; jokes Joey Shaw, UC Foundation professor in biology, geology and environmental science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.<\/p>\n<p>Each year since 2017, Shaw has been in charge of the Virtual Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage. The event brings experts to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where they lead about 200 events, including trail hikes into the park searching for everything from wildflowers and other plants to birds, bugs, snakes, salamanders, even signs of bears and boars, Shaw said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe try to do topics connecting scientists to the public. They know their stuff but also can relate to the public,\u201d explained Shaw, whose expertise is plants.<\/p>\n<p>But this year\u2014the 70th annual pilgrimage\u2014the coronavirus has stuck its ugly head into the process and the event is strictly online. Even so, it has attracted the most participants he\u2019s seen since he took over managing the event, Shaw said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have 300 people is really incredible,\u201d he said, adding that the number of species observed are &#8220;really insane numbers when you think about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For participants in the pilgrimage, the job is simple. \u201cYou don\u2019t know how to do anything but take a picture with your phone,\u201d Shaw said.<\/p>\n<p>Take a shot of something that interests you, send the photo to the event\u2019s website and an expert will look at it. If it\u2019s a plant, for instance, Shaw will ID it, then put the photo on the website for all to see and learn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I know what it is, I\u2019ll tell them whether it\u2019s just a common dandelion or a cool type of plant and tell them what it is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The photo also will ID where the plant was seen, but don\u2019t worry. If it\u2019s an especially rare plant or one that people might want to pick and take home\u2014ginseng, for example\u2014the actual location is hidden.<\/p>\n<p>Participants and experts also can have ongoing conversations on the website to get more information about what they\u2019ve seen, he added.<\/p>\n<p>And you can never predict what will be in the photos. One observer found a big, writhing pile of snakes and sent it in. The snake expert said it was basically a wild reptile party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was whole bunch snakes in breeding pile,\u201d Shaw said. \u201cMales fighting over a female.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virtual Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage brings experts to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where they lead about 200 nature-related events <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/annual-event-brings-people-close-to-nature-or-nature-close-to-people\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1105,"featured_media":31797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123865,61,3,7712,64,48007],"tags":[99107,99106],"class_list":{"0":"post-31628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-biology-geology-and-environmental-science","8":"category-college-of-arts-sciences","9":"category-community","10":"category-faculty-and-staff","11":"category-news","12":"category-research-academics","13":"tag-joey-shaw","14":"tag-virtual-spring-wildflower-pilgrimage","15":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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