Articles
Newsletters
These newsletters were produced at the Southern Highlands Reserve from 2004 to 2007. They provide a glimpse of the progess and thinking as things began to take shape at the Reserve. Work began in 2002 but it was 2004 before we decided to publish our first newsletter. That first newsletter gives a description of the very beginnings of the Reserve. In late 2007, we ran out of steam. Finishing the infrastructure and an office building left little time or energy for newsletter writing but, hopefully, we will pick up the task again soon. Look for new newsletters on the website.
- August 2004 Newsletter
- March 2005 Newsletter
- January 2006 Newsletter
- August 2006 Newsletter
- December 2007 Newsletter
Plant Fact Sheets
These Plant Fact Sheets are used at the Southern Highlands Reserve for staff education classes. We hope you find some of this information useful in your gardening and botanical pursuits. Ron Lance, our consulting staff field botanist, supplied the information for the PDF's and taught the classes. It is always a pleasure to walk in the woods with Ron or when the occassion arises to sit in one of his classes. Not only do you learn a lot, it's fun!
- Forest Types
- Herbaceous Plants and How They Grow
- How Trees Grow
- Lily Family
- Mountain Balds
- Mountain Ash
- Native Azaleas
- Winter Tree Key
- Witchhazel
- Gardening for Life by Douglas Tallamy - the importance of native plants
Hemlock Wooly Adelgid Information
- HWA Update March 2009
- HWA - Arbor Age Article - 2009
- Will Blozan, Appalachian Arborists, HWA Management Plan
- HWA Report from GSMNP
Ecology
- What is Phenology?
- The Phenology Handbook, UC-SB
- SHR Phenology Monitoring Datasheet
- The Spruce-Fir Forest, main article
- Spruce-Fir Forests of the GSMNP, Remaley
- High Elevation Rock Outcrop Communities, Ulrey
- USFW Endangered Species - C. Northern Flying Squirrel
- USFW Endangered Species - Rock Gnome Lichen
- USFW Endangered Species - Spruce-Fir Moss Spider
- USFW Endangered Species - Geum radiatum
- Federal Species of Concern - Red Crossbill
