Biology Professor Jon Evans gave an invited presentation at the 2017 Regional Wetlands/Section 401 Workshop: Ecological Endpoints: from Reference to Restoration held in Gatlinburg, TN last week. His talk entitled: Vernal Pools: Aquatic Islands of Biodiversity on the Cumberland Plateau was drawn from his recently published paper in the journal Wetlands where Evans and his co-authors from the Biology Department show how an extensive network of small forested wetlands on the

During the month of October, as part of my post-baccalaureate fellowship funded by the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, I have been involved in plant conservation work throughout the state of Tennessee. This work is part of the Sewanee Herbarium's connection to the Tennessee Plant Conservation Alliance (TNPCA), a coalition of institutions dedicated to conserving Tennessee's native plants and their habitats. My first project was located in the Cherokee National Forest, where I as

Join Jon Evans at 7 PM Wednesday, November 8, for a talk that will trace the complex natural and cultural history of a 30-acre tract known as the “King Farm” on the Domain. This site was the location of one of the first homesteads in the Sewanee area in the early 1800’s and the talk will reveal a 200-year progression of different land uses that occurred at this improbable, remote place and how this unique land use history shaped the forest that we see there today. Event spon