[Pollinator] NPW - NC - Learn about bugs at The Cradle of Forestry on Saturday

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>From the Citizen-Times.com, Asheville, NC

Learn about bugs at The Cradle of Forestry on Saturday
Staff Reports • June 26, 2009 08:00 AM

    PISGAH FOREST — The Cradle of Forestry Historic Site invites all 
ages to come learn about bugs from 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. on Saturday. This 
event will be held in and around the Cradle’s Forest Discovery Center 
and commemorates the last day of National Pollinator Week. Activities 
include a hands-on table with live arthropods, guided bug hunts and 
pond explorations, games, and crafts. A wheelchair accessible guided 
walk focusing on insect and forest interrelationships will begin at 
11:30 a.m.


Naturalist Ina Warren will display her monarch butterfly exhibit with 
live caterpillars to observe and milkweed seeds to share. She will 
present her program on monarchs and how we can help them, “Where 
There’s a Will There’s a Way-station,” at 1:30 p.m. At 10:30 a.m. and 
2:30 p.m. meet a naturalist from the Cradle of Forestry for a bug hunt 
among nearby leaves, logs, and leaf litter. Pond explorations will 
begin at 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Throughout the day visitors can stop 
by the “Bug Tables” and meet some amazing live arthropods up close and 
personal at a hands-on bug display, play buggy games at their own pace, 
and create a Build-a-Bug craft.


Admission to the Cradle of Forestry is $5 for adults and free for youth=2
0
under 16 years of age and holders of America the Beautiful and Golden 
Age passes.


Admission includes an 18-minute film, the Forest Discovery Center with 
15 hands-on exhibits, a scavenger hunt, a firefighting helicopter 
simulator, historic cabins and antique equipment on two paved trails, 
living history interpreters and a 1915 Climax logging locomotive.


The Cradle of Forestry is located on Hwy. 276 in the Pisgah National 
Forest, six miles north of Looking Glass Falls and four miles south of 
the Blue Ridge Parkway. For more information call 877-3130 or go to 
www.cradleofforestry.org.


Informative Web resources related to these events at the Cradle are 
www.pollinator.org, www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators, and 
www.fs.fed.us/monarchbutterfly/.