[BSW] TV show on botanical artist - Pollinator partnership - Upcoming field trips

[Kathy Bilton]

Program Wednesday evening, March 8 on the Smithsonian channel about 
Marianne North.
http://www.smithsoniantv.com/shows/victorian-rebel-marianne-north/0/3445576?tag=art

(The Smithsonian channel appears to be 134 (or 634 in HD) on Verizon, 
assuming you have the package which includes this channel.)

Meet Marianne North, who defied Victorian convention to paint the world’s 
jungles
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/meet-marianne-north-who-defied-victorian-convention-to-paint-the-worlds-jungles/2017/03/06/b8169fa0-0297-11e7-ad5b-d22680e18d10_story.html?utm_term=.9b96bcd6de92

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Wednesday, March 8 at 6:30pm at the USBG
Lecture: The Greater Atlanta Pollinator Partnership
Free, but pre-registration is required
Speaker:Jennifer M. Cruse-Sanders, State Botanical Garden of Georgia,
University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Global pollinator populations are in decline for many reasons including
habitat loss and overuse of pesticides. The Greater Atlanta Pollinator
Partnership (GAPP) was initiated in 2009 due to the housing boom of the
1990s and early 2000s. Over a 20 year period, approximately 162,000 ha of
pollinator-friendly native green space/ tree canopy were lost with an
increase of 81,000 ha of impervious surface. Join Jennifer as she
discusses the goals of the GAPP, including encouraging restoration,
development, and registration of pollinator habitat at an ecologically
significant landscape scale, restoring pollinator-friendly habitat, and
educating the public through formal and informal programs.

https://www.usbg.gov/events/2017/02/17/lecture-greater-atlanta-pollinator-partnership

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Three field trips are in the works: two to the Bear Island area and the C. 
and O. Canal across from The Old Angler's Inn, the first on Saturday, 
March 25 and the second on Saturday, April 15; the third trip will be to 
Turkey Run Park in Virginia along the G.W. Parkway.

Details for 2017 will be posted soon.  In the meantime, you can look at 
the page with previous field trips which will have information about the 
trips to those same two areas: http://botsoc.org/bswfieldtrips.html