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UC Foundation Professor Joey Shaw, director of the Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage, leads a wildflower trip into the Cove Hardwood Forest\u2014which often contains as many as 30-50 species of wildflowers integrated on the forest floor. Photo courtesy of Joey Shaw.<\/p><\/div>\n

People always seem to be in a hurry to get where they\u2019re going, said Shannon Gordon, and that\u2019s true even outdoors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a tendency to be in a hurry so\u2014even when we\u2019re hiking\u2014we\u2019re going somewhere,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A planner for the upcoming 73rd Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, she\u2019s discovered the advantages of slowing down.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that is what\u2019s so unique about the Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage,\u201d said Gordon, who lives in the Denver suburb of Arvada, Colorado. \u201cYou can walk 100 feet and see and experience more in that 100 feet than you ever knew you could. It really helps you stop and enjoy these special gifts that we have all around us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Joey Shaw, UC Foundation professor in the Department of Biology, Geology and Environmental Science and director of the Pilgrimage, described it \u201cas a classroom to educate the public as to the importance of conservation and just how many species there are, whether it\u2019s plants or birds or fungi or whatever is inside the park.\u201d<\/p>\n

Set for April 26-29, the annual event will have more than 120 experts who will lead more than 200 educational experiences, including guided hikes to learn about plants and animals, stargazing, wild foods and many other subjects.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could think about the goal in terms of the two groups of people that come to Pilgrimage,\u201d Shaw said. \u201cOne are the leaders. These are the biologists, the botanists, the ecologists, the birders. They\u2019re mostly professors, educators and conservation workers. They come from Florida to Connecticut and Arkansas and Michigan, most of the Eastern U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pilgrims come because they want more education in whatever the subjects are. What they want is to come spend several days hiking with some people who can help them learn better about all these cool organisms that they\u2019re hiking through.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shaw, who earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in biology from UTC in 1998, first got involved in the Wildflower Pilgrimage as a graduate student at UT Knoxville\u2014obtaining a master\u2019s in botany in 2000 and a doctoral degree in 2005.<\/p>\n

Quinn Towery, who is in his first semester at UTC and pursuing a master\u2019s in environmental science with a concentration in botany, will be attending his first Pilgrimage. He helped plan the event and is looking forward to meeting the people he\u2019s been emailing for the past few months.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve met\u2014or at least met over email\u2014a lot of professionals who I\u2019m hoping to keep in contact with for the rest of my career,\u201d said Towery, who attended Allen County-Scottsville High School in Kentucky and graduated from the University of Kentucky with a bachelor\u2019s in environmental science.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s one of the greatest benefits I see from my position, getting to just meet all of these amazing biologists in the Southeast and hopefully making a connection with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gordon said she\u2019s eager to interact with experts in their topic and gain insight from what they know.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe learn every day from leaders who are in their 80s to the students like Quinn who have such an immense knowledge already and are able to share that. I think that\u2019s pretty exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPilgrims\u201d being introduced to the hidden world of aquatic insects in the creeks and streams of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photo courtesy of Joey Shaw.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The upcoming 73rd Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will have more than 120 experts who will lead more than 200 educational experiences, including guided hikes to learn about plants and animals, stargazing, wild foods and many other subjects.<\/p>\n

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