Go to this month's meeting schedule
MTG has program meetings the second Thursday of every month, except December, when we typically have our annual Holiday Party. Our program meetings are held at the Radnor Lake Visitor Center In Nashville, Tennessee, and concern educational and conservation oriented issues such as:
 | Accounts of, and information on, backpacking, canoeing/kayaking, or biking expeditions |
| Fun presentations by experts on attracting songbirds, wildflower slideshows, vegetarian cooking |
| Lectures on rehabilitation of injured birds, trail building, forest watching, and much, much more |
| A lawyer's, or other professional's personal account of an issue of conservation in areas of energy conservation, water quality, air pollution, forestry preservation, urban sprawl & population concerns, etc. |
Our monthly Executive Committee Meetings (otherwise known as the Excom) are held the fourth Tuesday of every month. During this general conservation and business meeting, we discuss the following:
| Hot! issues |
| Plan strategy |
| Steer local campaigns and conservation committees |
| Review the progress of green legislation |
| and conduct the general business of Group. |
These meetings are open to the public and attending them is an excellent way to become more involved, or just learn more about environmental issues, and/or develop your activism interests.
June - July 2008 Meetings
STRATEGY MEETING: Tuesday, June 24 at 6:30 p.m. in the old St. Bernard’s Academy Building, 2021 21st Avenue South, 4th floor. Conservation issues are first on the agenda. All members are invited to attend this conservation and administrative meeting to get the news on what’s happening in our Middle Tennessee Group. We welcome you to be with us to learn about the group’s conservation initiatives and community activities. For conservation issues or additions to the conservation agenda, contact Betsy Garber at 615-370-9454 or email hackberrypond@hotmail.com. For additions to the administrative agenda or for more information regarding the meetings, send a message to Rachel Floyd at rfloyd557@bellsouth.net.
PROGRAM MEETING: Thursday, July 10, 7:00 p.m. at Radnor Lake Visitor Center, 1160 Otter Creek Road, Nashville. MTG is proud to host Bettina Bowers-Schwan, Animal Care Manager of Walden’s Puddle. Walden’s Puddle, the only professionally staffed wildlife rehabilitation and education facility in Middle Tennessee, provides care to sick, injured and orphaned native Tennessee wildlife. Ms. Bowers-Schwan will present a slide show on the work of Walden’s Puddle, which has the goal of returning as many rescued wild animals to nature as possible and reuniting baby animals with their parents.
The most common patients at Walden’s Puddle include rabbits, opossums, squirrels, raccoons, turtles, ducks, songbirds, and a variety of raptors including American kestrels, red-tailed hawks, and eastern screech, great horned and barred owls. We hope that Ms. Bowers-Schwan will be bringing one or more of these little guys with her to show us. She will tell you how to handle an animal until you can get it to them and how to determine when a baby animal is or is not an orphan.
Please feel free to bring children and join us for this special program, which is free and open to the public.
AUGUST PROGRAM MEETING PREVIEW: Land Trust for Tennessee on August 14th.
STRATEGY MEETING: Tuesday, July 22 at 6:30 p.m. in the old St. Bernard’s Academy Building, 2021 21st Avenue South, 4th floor. Conservation issues are first on the agenda. All members are invited to attend this conservation and administrative meeting to get the news on what’s happening in our Middle Tennessee Group. We welcome you to be with us to learn about the group’s conservation initiatives and community activities. For conservation issues or additions to the conservation agenda, contact Betsy Garber at 615-370-9454 or email hackberrypond@hotmail.com. For additions to the administrative agenda or for more information regarding the meetings, send a message to Rachel Floyd at rfloyd557@bellsouth.net.
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Future State Chapter Meetings:
| Winter: January 25-27, 2008, Cedars of Lebanon State Park, hosted by the Middle Tennessee Group, Chair: Rachel Floyd, rfloyd557@bellsouth.net. |
| Spring: April 11-13, 2008, Fall Creek Falls Group Lodge, hosted by teh Upper Cumberland Group, Chair: Peggy Evans, maevans@twlakes.net. |
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Summer 2008:
TBD, hosted by the Watauga Group, Chair: Gloria Griffith, gla4797 @
earthlink.net .
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