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March 27
Botany Hike
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Botany Hike

Saturday, March 27, 2010, 9 AM-12 PM
Harry Hampton Visitors Center Parking Lot

In appreciation of the Park’s flowering plants, Friends will organize a hike to the longleaf pine woods off Garrick Road. Professor John Nelson of USC’s A.C. Moore Herbarium will lead the botany tour. Park staff has conducted controlled burns in the Garrick Road Tract for several years now, including an “off-season” burn in Fall 2009 to discourage undesirable competition for the longleaf savanna that the park is trying to restore.

This hike will be entirely off-trail; we will generally be hiking through open understory, though there will be plenty of sweetgum undergrowth to negotiate as well. Participants should be in moderate physical shape. Bring water and insect repellant; long pants are recommended. Jogging shoes or light hiking boots are appropriate. This hike is limited to the first 30 people to sign up. We will meet in the visitors’ center parking lot and carpool to Garrick Road.

Contact: John Grego
(803) 777-5110 (work) / grego@stat.sc.edu
(803) 331-3366 (cell) / jrgrego@mindspring.com


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