Elsie Quarterman Cedar Glade Festival is an annual event held at Cedars of Lebanon State Park at the Cedar Forest Lodge (from the main entrance take the fork in the road to the right to the first building on the right). Lectures, hikes, roundtable discussions and more. Details and Directions: www.mtsu.edu/glade-center Where: Cedars of Lebanon State Park

This will be a joint hike with Swan Conservation Trust. In 2017, the state added approximately 110 acres to the 90-acre Stillhouse Hollow Falls State Natural Area. We plan to hike the 2/3 mile trail to the falls where we will have lunch. After exploring the area around the falls, we will then explore the new property. Since there are no trails on the new property be prepared to walk on uneven ground. Boots are highly recommended. We will explore…

This is a joint TNPS and TCWP outing. We will walk down the backside of Black Oak Ridge to a superb spring wildflower area along a lovely spring fed stream. Flowers to be seen depending on the spring season timing include celandine poppy, native pachysandra, Vasey’s trillium and many more. The trail is rough and steep in places. We can help each other in these spots. The distance is about 2 miles round trip. NOTE: This trip is scheduled for…

We will caravan from the Exxon to the Lower Piney River Trailhead to start a shuttle leaving some cars there. We will then carpool to the Stinging Fork Falls Trailhead. From there we hike back to the Piney River Trailhead. This section of the Cumberland Trail was completed in fall 2018. What spring flowers we will see is hard to predict. The route is definitely scenic. Total walking distance will be about 6 miles. The trail is up and down…

The TNPS Board meeting is from 11 AM to 3 PM at the Technology Engagement Center of Hobgood Elementary School in Murfreesboro.

We will hike the Friends and Forked Pine Trail which will give us an opportunity to botanize upland oak/hickory/pine communities in southwestern Tennessee. We will have an opportunity to see Green adder’s mouth orchid (Malaxis unifolia) – although not rare, it is uncommon in west TN. We will also survey warm season grasslands along Highway 100 where we will find several conservative grassland species in flower. Directions: Chickasaw State Park is located off Highway 100 in Chester County, TN, approximately…

This is a joint hike with the new Middle Tennessee Wild Ones and TNPS. For those that missed the 2016 trip, this is your opportunity to again see orchids and other rare plants. The “Oak Barrens” of Coffee County provides some of the best examples of TN rare plants that also occur in the Gulf Coastal Plain and the prairies of the Midwest. As a result, Coffee County is one of only three counties in Tennessee with 50 or more…

Our 2019 annual conference and meeting will be held at Ellington Hall in Reelfoot Lake State Park on July 12-14. Speakers include Rita Venable (butterflies and pollinators) on Friday evening and Dr. Tom Blanchard from UT-Martin (UTM Reelfoot Lake Research Station) on Saturday evening. We likely will have two field trips in the morning on Saturday and the same two field trips in the afternoon so no one will miss out. Then, for an extra $10 each, we will have…