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Update on the Baa-tany Goat Project from the Baa-se Camp, high on the mountain.
Goatherd, Jamey Donaldson, brings us up to date on Year Seven of the Baatany Goat Project.
The Baatany Goat Project is real science. It is important to the future of the Grassy Balds and the Green Alder Balds. What is a green Alder Bald? It is more rare than grassy balds..
Read the newly published paper.
Go to: Baatany.org Choose “The Science” from the menu.
The link to the PDF is under Baatany Project’s Botany Project
Newly Published: Surface-soil properties of Alder Balds with respect to Grassy and Rhododendron Balds on Roan Mountain, NC-TN
SPECIAL BONUS: “Gotham” What does it really mean?
Listen to the Roan Mountain Radio episode #045 to hear Jamey discuss the Olde English origin of the word.
** Jamey’s reference to Jennifer Bauer’s book, Roan Mountain, History of an Appalachian Treasure, on page 33, reference to 1880’s scientis Helen R. Edson. Helen spent the winter on the mountain in a small cabin to study the effects of cold and moisture at high altitudes.
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Fall Naturalists Rally Sept 5-6-7, 2014