[Durham INC] Events -- safer street forum tonight and Penny's Bend Hike

[Pat Carstensen]

Sorry about the late notice (2 days in Duke Hospital with infected hand was not on my agenda).
The Sierra Club is hosting a forum on making streets safer for folks on foot or bicycles tonight at 7 PM at the Jewish Community Center on Cornwallis.  Philip Azar is one of the panelists.  http://www.meetup.com/NC-Sierra-Club-Headwaters-Group/events/221992160/.
Also some might be interested in the event below at Penny's Bend

Subject: Re: Please join me at Penny's Bend on Saturday for the Wild Blue Indigo Hike!
From: ed.harrison at mindspring.com
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 15:13:28 -0400
To: NC-HEADWATERS-FORUM at LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG; NC-OCG-NEWS at LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG; newhopeaudubon at yahoogroups.com

To clarify registration: scroll down on the Calendar page that comes up, to Saturday 5/16.   
Ed Harrison

On May 13, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Ed Harrison <ed.harrison at mindspring.com> wrote:Still lots of spaces (too many, actually!) for my “Walk’n’Talk” at Penny’s Bend Nature Preserve on the lower Eno River this coming Saturday morning – the annual “Wild Blue Indigo Hike.” Johnny Randall and His Firebugs (a ‘50s rockabilly group morphed into 21st century ecologists) have been doing lots of prescribed burns there to perk up the rare and uncommon vegetation. The Indigo is the most notable shrub, and we start out amidst its biggest stand within easy public access to the urban Triangle. It’s State Endangered, and is pictured below. One ornithological treat on our past mid-May hikes has been multiple encounters with Yellow breasted chats, giving us the chance to lose count of their calls.Here's how to register for this NC Botanical Garden field trip: from the page, “NC Botanical Garden calendar of events, click on “Calendar” to get
http://reg.abcsignup.com/view/view_month.aspx…Would really help to do this ASAP! This 17-year Spring tradition is in serious danger of getting cancelled in the next few hours.
Thanks!Ed Harrison (Sierra Club and Audubon member/veteran plant ecologist) -- ed.harrison at mindspring.com AND/OR 919-490-1566




 		 	   		  
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