Schedule for Day 6 of Wilderness Wildlife Week 2015 in Pigeon Forge Tennessee Smokies

This morning played host to one of the most beautiful sunrises you can imagine illuminating the snow caped peaks of Mount LeConte and the entire range of the Great Smoky Mountains. What better way to start day 6 of the Wilderness Wildlife Week event in Pigeon Forge Tennessee?

Rough winter weather has however put a damper on some of the Wilderness Wildlife Week guided hikes aspects due to snow and ice on the roads and trails. Newfound Gap Road US441 and even Cherokee Orchard Road are still closed to snow and ice and hopes are that better weather will allow the rest of the hikes to take place.

You will be warm and toasty inside the LeConte Center where a host of great indoor programs will take place today for Wilderness Wildlife Week including Wildflowers of the Southern Highlands, How to Make Maple Syrup, and Introduction to Tracking People Outdoors.

Thur, January 29th 2015 Wilderness Wildlife Week Schedule

• 9 to 10am: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! How to Conduct a Survivor Competition. Presented by Mark Kilgore and taking place in the Greenbrier Hall B.
   
• 9 – Noon: LIMITED SPACE! Painting a Smoky Mountain Waterfall. Presented by Dick Ensing. Limited to 16 people ages 18+. Taking place in the Bob Hatcher Memorial Room.
   
• 9:30 to 10:30am: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! Stayin’ Alive: Preparing Healthy Home Cooked Meals. Presented by Susan Bicksler. Taking place in the North Multi-Purpose Room 1.
   
• 9:30 to 10:30am: Woodpeckers: Nature’s Home Builders. Presented by Regina Garr. Taking place in the Greenbrier Hall C.
   
• 9:30 to 12:30: LIMITED SPACE! Basket Making. Presented by Theresa Tyler. Limited to 8 participants will learn from Theresa the Appalachian art of basket making. Taking place in the Bob Kolb Memorial Room.
   
• 10 to 11am: HERITAGE! People Who Shaped Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Part 1. Presented by Bill Deitzer. Taking place in the Greenbrier Hall A.
   
• 10 to 11:30am: The Wolves of Bays Mountain. Presented by Rick and Rhonda Goins. Taking place in the North Multi-Purpose Room 2.
   
• 10:30 to 11:30am: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! Omnivore’s Dilemma Revisited: How Your Food Choices Affect Our Planet. Presented by Dana Ripper. Join Dana as she discusses our modern food system, its detrimental effects on the environment and how consumers can have a major impact on the situation. Taking place in the Greenbrier Hall B.
   
• 10:30 – Noon: Do It Yourself: Building a Backyard Bird Habitat. Presented by Mark Dunaway. Taking place in the North Multi-Purpose Room 3.
   
• 11 – Noon: Wildflowers of the Southern Highlands. Presented by Garr Jack Carman. Taking place in the North Multi-Purpose Room 1.
   
• 11 – Noon: Tennessee State Parks of Mideast Tennessee and the Cumberland Plateau. Presented by Robin Peeler Wooten. Taking place in the Greenbrier Hall C.
   
• 11:30 to 12:30pm: Update on the Smokies’ All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory: 16 Years and Counting! Presented by Todd Witcher. A YourSmokies favorite! Taking place in the Greenbrier Hall A.
   
• Noon to 1pm: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! Look and Touch Wildlife Program. Presented by Chris Ogle. Join Chris as he introduces them to preserved wildlife specimens and some live reptiles. Main focus of this session is on non-game wildlife including small mammals, reptiles and amphibians. Taking place in the Greenbrier Hall B.
   
• 12:30 to 1:30pm: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! Reelfoot Lake: Celebrating 200 Years. Presented by David Haggard. Join David as he shares the history and beauty of Reelfoot Lake – Tennessee’s earthquake lake. Taking place in the North Multi-Purpose Room 1.
   
• 12:30 to 1:30pm: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! Fabulous Finches and Pretty Pinesiskins: Learn All About Goldfinches, Purplefinches, Housefinches and Pinesiskins and How to Attract Them. Presented by Steve Garr. Taking place in the Greenbrier Hall C.
   
• 12:30 to 1:30pm: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! LIMITED SPACE! Painting Magnolias on Sweatshirts or T-Shirts. Presented by Lois Armstrong Limited to 10 people, must bring own white t-shirt or sweatshirt. Taking place in the Bob Hatcher Memorial Room.
   
• 12:30 to 1:30pm: HERITAGE! Ballads and Ballad Singers of the Smoky Mountains. Presented by Boogertown Gap. Taking place in the LeConte Hall South.
   
• 1 to 2pm: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! LIMITED SPACE! Introduction to Needlepoint. Presented by Mary Warner. Limited to 15 people ages 12+. Taking place in the Bob Kolb Memorial Room.
   
• 1 to 2:15pm: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! LIMITED SPACE! Helping a Native Landscape Grow. Presented by Dr. Leo and Linda Lubke, W.C. and Glenna Julian, Lois Worthington, Donna Little and Roger Simpson. Limited to 30 people. Taking place in the South Multi-Purpose Room 1.
   
• 1 to 4pm: Introduction to Tracking People Outdoors. Presented by Joe Kelley, Joey Holt and Dwight McCarter. Taking place in the Greenbrier Hall A.
   
• 1:30 to 2:30pm: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! Gardening: Good for Your Mind, Body and So Much More! Presented by Dr. Sue Hamilton. Taking place in the North Multi-Purpose Room 2.
   
• 1:30 to 2:30pm: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! HERITAGE! Remembrance: Backcountry Cemeteries in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Renee Michot and Jim Rigsby. Taking place in the North Multi-Purpose Room 3.
   
• 1:30 to 2:30pm: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! Buried Alive: A Little Girl’s Narrow Escape and an Herb Doctor’s Cure. Presented by Cherel Henderson. The body was laid out, the casket being built, when someone noticed movement under the coverlet. Cora Ogle escaped being buried alive, only to face life as a cripple. Join Cherel as she tells the amazing story of a little girl’s will and an herb doctor’s most unusual cure. Taking place in the Greenbrier Hall B.
   
• 2 to 3pm: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! Wildfire! Preventing Home Ignitions. Presented by Leon Konz. Learn what homeowners and even whole communities can do to make themselves safer from wildfires. Fire prevention, landscaping, building materials, housekeeping and community design will be discussed. These are all elements of the Tennessee Division of Forestry’s programs. Taking place in the North Multi-Purpose Room 1.
   
• 2 to 3pm: Ghost Birds: Jim Tanner and the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. Presented by Stephen Lyn Bales. Taking place in the Greenbrier Hall C.
   
• 2 to 3pm: KIDS’ TRACK! LIMITED SPACE! Get Growing: Keep Sevier Beautiful. Limited to 25 participants ages 8+ who will make a vase using a plastic two liter bottle, which they will decorate and will be provided with seeds to start a flower. Taking place in the Bob Hatcher Memorial Room.
   
• 2 to 3pm: HERITAGE! Old Time Hymns. Presented by Don Huskey, Marcia Huskey Nelson, Roger Helton and Andy Stinnett. Listen to cherished melodies that carried from the open windows of little mountain churches of the past. Taking place in the LeConte Hall South.
   
• 2:30 to 3:30pm: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! LIMITED SPACE! Make a Grapevine Dreamcatcher. Presented by Sue Todd and Limit 10 people ages 15+. Taking place in the Bob Kolb Memorial Room.
   
• 3 to 4pm: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! Understanding Bears: The Habits and Characteristics of North American Bears. Presented by Joel Zachry. Taking place in the North Multi-Purpose Room 2.
   
• 3 to 4pm: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! Discovering Tennessee’s Wildlife Diversity. Presented by Chris Ogle. Join Chris as he discusses several of Tennessee’s little known and, strange and amazing creatures with an emphasis on salamanders, frogs, snakes and bats. Taking place in the Greenbrier Hall B.
   
• 3 to 4pm: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! LIMITED SPACE! How to Make Maple Syrup. Presented by John Curtis. Limited to 40 people. Taking place in the South Multi-Purpose Room 1.
   
• 3:30 to 4:30pm: HERITAGE! The Founding of a National Park: The Establishment of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Presented by Tom Harrington. Taking place in the North Multi-Purpose Room 1.
   
• 3:30 to 4:30pm: Forest Insects and Disease in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Presented by Jesse Webster. Taking place in the North Multi-Purpose Room 3.
   
• 3:30 to 4:30pm: Bird’s the Word: Celebrating the World of Birds With Bird Stories, Lore, Songs and Natural History. Presented by Doug Elliott. Taking place in the Greenbrier Hall C.
   
• 3:30 to 4:30pm: KIDS’ TRACK! LIMITED SPACE! Pioneer and Historical Toys. Presented by Roy Henson. Limited to 20 people ages 10+ who will join Roy as he instructs them on how to make historical style toys pioneers would have had in days gone by. Taking place in the Bob Hatcher Memorial Room.
   
• 3:30 to 5:30pm: HERITAGE! Old Harp Singing School. Presented by David Sarten, leader. In a shorter version of the earlier singing schools of the Great Smoky Mountains region, David Sarten will teach participants how to sing the "do-re-mi" shaped notes. Taking place in the LeConte Hall South.
   
• 4:30 to 5:30pm: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! Secrets of Backyard Birds. Presented by Stephen Lyn Bales. Taking place in the North Multi-Purpose Room 2.
   
• 4:30 to 5:30pm: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! Pilgrim Walk: A Spiritual Field Guide. Presented by Paul and Susanne Hassell. Taking place in the Greenbrier Hall A.
   
• 4:30 to 5:30pm: Miracle of the Monarch: From Eggs on Milkweed to Tagging and Releasing the Monarch Butterfly. Presented by Glenna Julian and Lois Worthington. Taking place in the Greenbrier Hall B.
   
• 4:30 to 6pm: An Experience Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail Video Presentation for Mature Audiences. Presented by Bert Kunze. Taking place in the South Multi-Purpose Room 1.
   
• 5 to 6pm: Nature Recording in the Smokies. Presented by Mark Dunaway. Taking place in the North Multi-Purpose Room 1.
   
• 5 to 6pm: Wildflowers of the Smokies. Presented by Jack Carman. Taking place in the North Multi-Purpose Room 3.
   
• 5 to 6pm: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream. Presented by Kathy Gwinn. Kathy will give you the inside "scoop" on America’s favorite food – Ice cream. Added "toppings" include old-time soda shoppes, famous ice cream parlors and Hash-House Lingo. Taking place in the Greenbrier Hall C.
   
• 5 to 6pm: LIMITED SPACE! Old Time Banjo Workshop for Beginners. Presented by Tony Thomas. Limited to 10 participants must bring own banjo. Taking place in the South Multi-Purpose Room 2.
   
• 6pm: Saturday Hikes and Field Trips Sign-ups. Taking place in the Greenbrier Hall A.
   
• 6 to 7pm: Hymns and Songs of Faith. Presented by Whaley Family Singers. Join this large Smoky Mountain family from Greenbrier as they share their legacy through song. A YourSmokies Favorite! Taking place in the LeConte Hall South.
   
• 6:30 to 7:30pm: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! Looking for America: A 20th Century Hero’s Journey With Stories of Cross-Country Hitchhiking and Freight Hopping. Presented by Doug Elliott. Taking place in the Greenbrier Hall C.
   
• 7:30pm: Slow Jam. Presented by Tony Thomas and Friends. Taking place in the North Multi-Purpose Room 1.
   
• 8pm: NEW Wilderness Wildlife Week Program! For the Love of the Smokies: A Lifetime of Experiencing the Majestic Beauty of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Presented by Ken Jenkins. A Your Smokies Favorite! Taking place in the Greenbrier Hall C.