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Here are current needs of some organizations, should you want to help by focusing on a particular project or need. If you are sending a donation, please indicate the project name on your check or money order.  Organizations are listed in alphabetical order below.

 

 

 KATE MARSHALL GRAPHICS, INC.

www.covebear.com

 

"Cades Cove Project"

We are looking for people to help us with an upcoming documentary project about the history of Cades Cove. We would welcome descendants of people who actually lived in Cades Cove to just sit and tell us (and our viewers) what it was like to live there, and what it was like to leave there. Old photographs are welcome - we can go to Tennessee to scan them ourselves, so that you do not have to part with valued pictures. Please email us and help us with our search.

 

WILDFLOWERS

In progress, post-production (finally!) - Wildflower Videos!  This project has now evolved into a multi-program series.  First up is a program about early spring ephemerals in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.  You will see these wildflowers up close in living color, learn all about them and the habitats they live in, and find out why these flowers are so dear to hikers and wildflower enthusiasts.  Although the wildflowers on this DVD were photographed in the Southern Appalachians, many of them are also found in other places, frequently as far north as Canada.  Because of this, people from all over North America may find this series interesting and informative.  We plan on one of these programs centering around where to find these beauties in the Southern Appalachians, including north Georgia, western North Carolina, and eastern Tennessee.  People planning trips to these areas may want to choose their travel dates to coincide with the bloom time of some of these flowers.  There is nothing like a hillside of white fringed phacelia with yellow trillium rising up out of that snow-like carpet.

 

 

 NATURE CONSERVANCY, THE

www.nature.org     

 

"Ivory-Billed Woodpecker / Big Woods Conservation Project"

The ivory-billed woodpecker, once thought to be absolutely extinct, lives!

You can make a contribution for the continued preservation of this endangered bird's home in Arkansas's Big Woods. The Big Woods Conservation Partnership is led by the Nature Conservancy and The Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. This is one of the most important, significant, and joyful finds of our lifetime.  Before the 2004 sightings, the last U.S. sighting of this magnificent bird was in 1944.

 

 

 

More to come.......