Nature Presentation with Jim Welch
When |
Nov 02, 2019
from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM |
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Where | FENCE Center |
Contact Name | Tracie Hanson |
Contact Phone | 8288599021 |
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Jim Welch grew up on a farm in northeastern Vermont and spent his childhood in the woods and fields of the rolling green mountains and hills observing and learning of the flora and fauna of the outdoors. He studied broadcasting at UCLA and later the University of Hawaii, and became a news reporter and anchor at television stations in Honolulu, Hawaii and Columbia, SC before joining the SCETV Network where he and Rudy Mancke began their worldwide treks in the production of NatureScene.
He is a member of the South Carolina Association of Naturalists, the SC Native Plant Society, Conserving Carolina, Friends of DuPont Forest and is past president of The Explorers Club, Greater Piedmont Chapter, a former member of the Board of Directors of Riverbanks Zoo, Board of Directors of Friends of the Congaree and has received numerous awards for his work and support of the environment. In 1998 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science from Lander University, Greenwood, SC.
This event is free and open to the public.