2024 Winter Quarterly Meeting

Come join Low Country Master Naturalists at the Winter Quarterly Meeting to be held on Wednesday, January 10, 2024 from 5:30 to 8:00. The event will be held at the Palmetto Electric Community Room at 1 Cooperative Way, Hardeeville.  Registration will open on December 10, 2023. Please do not try to register before that date. While there is no charge for this meeting, RSVP by January 3, 2024.  This helps us with the planning process.   Questions?  Contact Hilary Gallop hilarygallop@gmail.com Our presenter will be Lydia Moore.  Lydia Moore was captivated by conservation and ecology as a child growing up next to a saltwater marsh in Charleston. She pursued this passion at Oberlin College where she double majored in biology and environmental studies. After spending several years in New Mexico, she returned to school and earned her master’s degree at Auburn University studying bats in the coastal plain of South Carolina. Lydia is a community ecologist and has spent the last ten years studying bats in the coastal plains of South Carolina and Alabama. Lydia will present Night Wanderers: The Obscure Life of Bats Bats are often portrayed as vile creatures that should be feared- a portrayal that fosters revulsion and misunderstanding. Lydia Moore, research and education coordinator for the Palmetto Bluff Conservancy, will discuss the endearing, beneficial, and inadequately represented side of bats. Join us and learn why bats are essential components of ecosystems, why it is crucial that we study them, and about ongoing research at the Bluff. The meeting schedule will be as follows: 5:30-6:00 Meet and Greet 6:00-6:45 Potluck supper 6:45-7:00 President’s Message 7:00-8:00 Presentation by Lydia Moore Dinner:  Potluck (please bring enough to serve 6-8). A - H: Dessert I - Q:  Sides R - Z:  Main Dish GO GREEN!  Please bring the non-alcoholic beverage of your choice and your reusable dinnerware. You must pay your dues to participate in LCMNA events. To pay your dues, log onto LCMNA.org and click the “pay dues” button on the home page to pay via PayPal or Credit Card  (you don’t need an account to do this). Want to pay by check? Mail to: LCMNA, 40 Mobley Oaks Ln, Okatie, SC 29909. If you have completed and reported your 30 volunteer hours for 2022 there will be a table where you can have your jewel installed.  Click here to go to the Clemson Volunteer Database and log your hours.