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Springtime Wildflowers of the Great Smoky Mountains, with Walter Muma
January 12, 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Springtime Wildflowers of the Great Smoky Mountains, with Walter Muma While early spring still has Ontario in its grip, the Great Smoky Mountains put on a spectacular display of wildflowers during the
latter part of April. Many species found there are familiar to us, while others will be new to Ontario naturalists. Join Walter Muma as he shows us the many varieties of wildflowers of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
7pm Thursday January 12, at the Bayshore Community Centre and on Zoom. To request a zoom link please email web@osfn.ca with Walter in the subject line.
Walter is an avid experienced field botanist who focusses much of his botany explorations on Grey and Bruce counties, and from Newfoundland to Lake Superior and down into the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. His outdoor interests, which he has pursued since his teenage years, include tracking and wilderness survival, hiking, backpacking, canoeing, and just generally “wandering the wild areas”.
He is the curator of the Ontario Wildflowers website, as well as the Ontario Trees, Ontario Ferns, and Ontario Grasses websites, which are “go to” sites for parks staff, environmental consultants and others who are in the business of identifying wildflowers and other plants in the field. In addition to these sites, he has created many other websites relating to survival, tracking, and the outdoors.
In his work life he is a busy self-employed accounting software consultant, custom software developer, and accountant.
Walter and his wife Julie reside in Grey County on their 100 acre natural and farmland property.
OSFN Indoor Meetings are normally held on the second Thursday of the month at 7:00 p.m. at the Bayshore Community Centre, 1900 3rd Ave E Owen Sound. There are no Indoor Meetings in July and August. Please see the individual event listings below for more details.
We invite speakers with a wide range of expertise from Grey/Bruce and other parts of the province. These evenings are open to the public. The auditorium is open by 6:30. The meeting gets under way at 7:00, and may include brief announcements by other organizations as well as OSFN club activities, club business, social time, nature sightings and reports.
The club also offers a full schedule of outdoor activities during the year. Through these outings, members learn more about the birds, plants, mammals and geology of this part of Ontario. We also keep a protective eye on our precious natural areas.