PART 6 OF 6 - SGI Needs Your Help, Here's How

PART 6 OF 6 - SGI Needs Your Help, Here's How

Part 6 of 6: We called, you answered: At the beginning of 2018, we put out a call for volunteers to join our team and the response has been amazing. Now, six months after the official launch of our organization, it warms my heart to announce that more than 400 volunteers have pledged their support. Collectively, you represent all 23 states and more than 60 communities. Thank you for taking that first step of signing our registry. Help us recruit new volunteers by sharing our message with friends, family, and colleagues.

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#5 Interior Plateaus Limestone Riverscour Glade

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This blog post is dedicated to the Highland Rim Limestone Riverscour Glade. This community is a type of glade, which is a rocky grassland/shrubland community that is found along just a few rivers in the Interior Plateaus ecoregion of central and east-central portions of Tennessee and Kentucky, southern Indiana, southern Ohio (?), and historically northern Alabama. 

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#4 Cumberland Plateau Sandstone Riverscour Barrens

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Most natural grasslands of the world are maintained by fire, grazing or climatic factors (e.g. lack of rainfall, persistent cold/freezing in tundra), but in the depths of some of the deepest river gorges of Southern Appalachia are poorly known flood-maintained grasslands known to community ecologists as riverscours.

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#2 Blue Ridge Montane Basins Shortleaf Pine-Post Oak Savanna

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#2 Blue Ridge Montane Basins Shortleaf Pine-Post Oak Savanna

The Blue Ridge Montane Basins Shortleaf Pine-Post Oak Savanna (found in portions of southwestern North Carolina near Hayesville, northern Georgia, and extreme southeastern Tennessee) is extremely poorly known. One of the earliest (1818) references to vegetation from this region recorded shortleaf pine and post oak. A high incidence of shortleaf pine and post oak would suggest adaptation to fire.

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#1 Blue Ridge Serpentine Barrens

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One of the rarest of all grassland types in the world is the Blue Ridge Mountains Serpentine Barrens! This community is represented by just a couple of examples in western North Carolina. The heavy metals in the soil resulting from the underlying serpentine rock combined with shallow soils, make these steep mountainsides more suitable to open woodlands and grassy barrens instead of forests.

The Clarksville, Tennessee newspaper, the Leaf Chronicle, features the Southeastern Grasslands Initiative and its local impact on the Clarksville community (authored by Jimmy Settle, 2 June 2017)

The Clarksville, Tennessee newspaper, the Leaf Chronicle, features the Southeastern Grasslands Initiative and its local impact on the Clarksville community

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