Carolina Butterfly Society, Midlands
Chapter
Schedule for 2009
For
all field trips or garden walks, please contact Marty at kastners@aol.com
if you are coming. My cell phone
number is 803-513-8661. Bring your
field guide, binoculars, camera, sunscreen, water and lunch for walks starting
at 10:00.
February
21, 1:00-3:00: Program.
Members will show their butterfly photographs from last year.
The program will be held at the Agricultural Conference Center in
Columbia (Bluff Rd. beside the Farmer’s
Market and The Biscuit House.)
March
21, 12:30 Field Trip: Harbison
State Forest. 5500 Broad River
Road, Columbia, 29212. We will meet
in the Education Center Office parking lot.
Please follow the signs from the entrance. Marty Kastner will lead the walk.
April
18, 10:00 Field Trip: Manchester
State Forest. We will meet at the
Hart Site Staging Area, 5580 Millford Plantation Rd., Wedgefield, SC 29168.
We will be driving on some unpaved roads, stopping when we see
butterflies. Marty Kastner will be
our trip leader.
May
9, 10:00 Field Trip: Lexington,
SC. We will go to the private property of Donna Denton, a friend
of Tommie Moodie.
May
16, 10:00 Field Trip: Carolina
Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge, 23734 US Highway , McBee, SC 29101.
From US Highway 1, turn north onto SC 145, continue for 3 miles, turning
west into the Lake Bee Recreation Area. Doug
DeNeved will be our trip leader.
June
27, Carolina Butterfly Society Symposium:
This will be held at Congaree National Park.
It will be hosted jointly by our Midlands Chapter and Congaree National
Park. Our featured speaker will be
David L. Wagner, author of Caterpillars of
Eastern North America. Registration will be at 9:30.
The program will start at 10:00.
June
28, NABA Butterfly Count: Congaree
National Park. Please contact
Christina Hulslander if you can participate.
ploverbug@msn.com
July 18, 10:00 Congaree
Bluffs Heritage Preserve and nearby areas in Calhoun County, Field Trip:
Dennis Forsythe will be our leader.
After visiting Congaree Bluff Heritage Preserve, we will drive to other
areas of promise for butterflies.
September
5, 10:00 Albemarle Corporation, Orangeburg Plant, Field Trip:
Our
leader will be Diane Curlee.
Albemarle is a chemical plant located at 725 Cannon Bridge Road, Orangeburg, SC
29115. They are the Wildlife
Habitat Council’s 2008 rookie of the Year for their wildlife habitat area and
Corporate Lands of Learning. We
will be able to follow trails that will take us through wooded uplands to a
power line and then into a wooded area that follows a creek.
The trail crosses the power line again and enters another wooded area
with wetlands close to the trail.
There is a shelter where we can have lunch.
The trail from the shelter leads to the
Edisto
River. We will have a safety
officer from the plant with us.
September
19, 10:00 Congaree National Park:
We will help
collect fall butterfly data for both CNP and NABA.
Christina Hulslander will be our leader.
October
3
Walk lead by Sudie Daves Thomas.
Destination to be announced.
Note: We may plan additional trips throughout this period without much prior notice, as individual members offer to lead a trip and we can arrange it. Feel free to offer your suggestions, PLEASE.
Contact Marty Kastner at KASTNERS@aol.com for more information.