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Monday, April 29, 2013

Spring birds counted in the rain at Ijams

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The 2013 Spring Bird Count was held yesterday morning at Ijams. Three hours of counting birds in the pouring rain, consequently, the...
Saturday, April 27, 2013

Mayor Rogero presents new city budget at Ijams luncheon

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Mayor Madeline Rogero presents 2013-14 city budget With Mead's Quarry Lake at Ijams as a backdrop, Knoxville Mayor Madeline ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Sam Houston schoolers overwhelm with their kindness

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Ijams educator Lauren Bird and screech-owl (right) with Sam Houston students Recently, a school teacher from Sam Houston Elementary con...
Friday, April 19, 2013

Ijams red-shouldered hawk nest hatches three

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The red-shouldered hawk nest high in a beech tree down the hill behind the Visitor Center is alive with new life. Three down-cove...
Monday, April 15, 2013

River Rescue 2013 cleans trash from 50 public locations

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AmeriCorps member Victoria Deren models this year's River Rescue t-shirt complete with optional accessories, two bags of trash. (Pleas...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Kindergarten kids get to experience the "feel of nature"

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Getting kids close to nature, that's our goal. As an educator, you hope to find something memorable. One recent morning it was ...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

From Ottosee shale to Lenoir limestone, Moore talked the talk

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Harry Moore discussing the geology of Ijams' Mead's Quarry Retired state geologist and author Harry Moore led a Geology Walk ...
Friday, March 29, 2013

Spring Break Camp enjoys last blast of winter

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Just suppose you have Spring Break Camp and winter is still malingering around. What do you do? Well, you suit-up, go outside and ...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Spring arrives at Ijams, but winter hangs on

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Cutleaf toothwort First day of spring! Despite this stubborn winter, that just keeps leaving and returning, some of the woodland wild...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Third-graders look for signs of the "Web of Life," find sleeping owl

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Is that an owl? Out come the cell phone cameras.  Today's kids often do not get the chance to spend much time outdoors, in the wood...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Good winter for purple finches at Ijams

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Male purple finch photographed outside Ijams Visitor Center To begin with, purple finches (Haemorhous purpureus) are not really purple...
Monday, March 11, 2013

Ijams Rite of Spring: Search for timberdoodles

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Peent! Peent...Peent!  The sound is insect-like and primal.  The buzzy "peenting" call of a chunky upland shorebird...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Quarry has ample parking for Urban Wilderness hikers

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A new trailhead kiosk for the  South Loop  on  Knoxville’s Urban Wilderness  has been constructed at Mead's Quarry.  The...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

"Rain, rain, go away" chant Ijams' aquatic mammals

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Beaver dam once located at Forks of the River WMA east of Ijams in early January. The heavy rainfall the second half of January has was...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Ijams' educators speak at the House & Garden Show

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Join us at the Dogwood Arts House & Garden Show at the Knoxville Convention Center: Friday, February 15, 11 a.m.  ...
Saturday, February 9, 2013

Shiitake Happens! Logs inoculated at Ijams this morning

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Inoculation: to introduce microorganisms into surroundings suited to their growth, as a culture medium. In the case of shiitake mushrooms...