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Swan Conservation Trust 2024 Calendar of Outings and Events – Coming Soon!

For all outings, bring footwear appropriate for possible creek crossings, a hiking stick, water, lunch/snacks, and bug repellent.  For planning purposes, we appreciate your RSVP by email at foreverwild@swantrust.org.

 

John Noel at Bon Aqua State Natural Area
Saturday, April 1, 2023 

TN Natural Areas Program Stewardship Ecologist, Allan Trently, will lead this easy hike, which showcases early spring wildflowers and old-growth trees.  Interesting history of the site includes an old hotel and spa.

RSVP required for this hike!  A $10/person fee goes to the Natural Areas Program. Because of limited parking, we will meet at Colton’s Steak House and Grill, 2431 TN-46, Dickson, and carpool to the natural area.

Earth Day Hike On Big Swan Headwaters Preserve
Saturday, April 22, 2023   

TennGreen Land Conservancy is hiking with us as part of their annual Hike-a-Thon fundraiser!   Meet at The Farm Store, 100 Second Rd, Summertown. There is a rest room, food and drinks. 

We will hike from there to the Tall Falls Loop Trail and optional extension — 2.5 or 3.5 miles of spring wildflowers, a lovely waterfall, and several crossings over Big Swan Creek.  A hiking stick is recommended to help with possibly slippery crossings.  Lunch stop on the trail.

Night Hike: Call of the Wild
Saturday, May 13, 2023

If you missed this event last year, and you wonder who is out there singing at night in the spring, join Pandy Upchurch, retired TWRA Wildlife Biologist, as we visit several ponds and wetlands.  We will listen and learn the mating calls of a variety of frogs, toads, and other creatures of the night.  Meet at The Farm Community Welcome Center, 100 Farm Rd, Summertown. 

Bird Outing with Buffalo River Chapter of TN Ornithological Society
Thursday, June 8, 2023 – noon (bring lunch for picnic at The Farm Store)

Get up early and bring your binoculars for a morning bird walk on Big Swan Headwaters Preserve, the Backbone Loop Trail featuring scenic overlooks of two creeks.  The neotropical migratory birds will be singing along with the year-round resident birds, declaring their territories and building nests.  Meet at The Farm Store, 100 Second Rd, Summertown. 

Canoe Trip on the Buffalo River
Saturday, July 15, 2023

Cool off from the summer heat with an 8-mile scenic  paddle on the Buffalo River!  Shuttle to Topsy Bridge, canoe to rental office.  Meet at Crazy Horse Canoe Rental, 2505 Waynesboro Hwy, Waynesboro TN.  Please RSVP so we know you are coming, and we will look for you!!  Check their web site www.crazyhorse.com for canoe and kayak rental pricing, or for transportation of your own boat.  Be prepared with a waterproof container for your valuables and enough food, drink, sunscreen, etc. for several hours on the river.

Butterfly Count at The Farm Community’s Prairie Barrens Preserve
Saturday, August 12, 2023

We’ve gathered several experts to survey and count butterflies and moths in the Prairie Barrens and surrounding fields and woodlands.  This is an educational opportunity for those wanting to learn or practice butterfly I.D.  Meet at The Farm Welcome Center, 100 Farm Rd, Summertown.  Bring your lunch, sunscreen, and bug repellent.  Swimming opportunity afterwards, so bring swimsuit and towel!

Langford Branch State Natural Area (SNA)
Saturday, September 16, 2023

A special tour of this Class II Natural Scientific SNA will be led by Allan Trently, stewardship ecologist. The 23-acre property is owned by Swan Trust and cooperatively managed with the Natural Areas Program. Several rare plants are protected on the site, including Tennessee Yellow-eyed Grass, a federal endangered species known only from a few other sites.  It should be blooming in the small seep, along with Large-leaved Grass-of-Parnassus, a state-listed rare plant. There is also an open barrens area with native grasses and wild-flowers. Langford Branch is a scenic tributary of Big Swan Creek.  Please RSVP for this tour as parking is limited. Directions will be provided after RSVP.

Full Moon Fall Fundraiser!  – Saturday, September 30, 2023

Will and Susan Fischer’s Home, 2425 Douglass Glen Lane, Franklin TN

Dinner, Silent Auction, and Live Music by The Homegrown Band!

Oktober Heritage Festival, Hohenwald TN
We will be there October 6 & 7, 2023!


Stay tuned to our Facebook page for more details and updates to these events!
Be sure to RSVP at foreverwild@swantrust.org!

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