RMR-045: Baa-tany Goat Project update from Baa-se Camp

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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.

 

 

Science Paper: Green Alder Balds

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.

LINKS:

Baatany.org

Friends of Roan Mountain

Fall Naturalists Rally Sept 5-6-7, 2014

 


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