TWRA Nature @ Noontime - February 2012 Session
Nature @ Noontime: Protecting Suburban Woodlands
Region II Conference Room
February 2, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
This month’s N@N presentation will describe how a small group of local residents have started a viable process for protecting suburban woodlands.
About Our Speaker
Jane Bibring studied cell biology at Edinburgh University (Scotland, undergraduate) and Stockholm University (Sweden, graduate) and then carried out research in the Department
of Molecular Biology at Vanderbilt for about 20 years. After becoming interested in education, she taught 11th and 12th grade sciences at University School of Nashville
for about 15 years. This included being responsible for a newly mitigated wetland
area at USN's River Campus.
Jane has lived in West Meade for 40 years. Although not an ecologist, she became very
involved in the West Meade Conservancy shortly after it was founded in 2006.
Hosted by the TWRA I&E Department and held on the first Thursday of each month, except July, Nature @ Noontime presentations are about natural resource related topics and last about 30-45, minutes, allowing time for discussion during the allotted lunch hour. If you would like to make a presentation, if you have topics of personal interest you would like us to address, or if you know someone who offers an interesting program, contact Don King (615) 781-6506 or by e-mail: Don.King@tn.gov.
