Heartwood 29th Council May 24-27th
May 24th (Friday)
Check in at 1 -9pm
Free Time
Ping Pong, Gold Panning, Bat Minton, Hiking the Trails
6 -645 pm-Dinner
7-830pm Davis Mounger (Speaker) Cherokee National Forest: Our Challenges and Victories (Dining Room)
Bonfire/Free Time
May 25th (Saturday)
6-7am Yoga with Anna M
Breakfast 8-9am
7-8am & 9 -10am– Opening Circle – Time is limited to a short intro only. Folks can elaborate their organization or mission during free time.
(Introduction-Name, Organization, Organizations Mission)
10-2 pm Davis Mounger Protecting Our Watersheds: A Visit to Tumbling Creek (Bring your lunch, Snacks, and Water)
10am-1200pm Jason Drevenak ( Set up Near Dining Room) (Wildcraft Workshop)
1200-100pm Lunch
130-3pm Shelby Ward: Using Environmental Law to Protect Your Community (Retreat Center by Office)
215-345 pm Cash Daniel (9 Year old Conservationist) Award & Speaker (Rec Barn) (Award will be presented at the end of his talk).
3-445pm Jason Drevenak (Wildcraft Workshop) ( Set up Near Dining Room) – Finish up Project Time
500 pm-545pm Dinner/Supper
600-830 pm Lloyd Clayton’s Memorial (In the Barn)
Lloyd Memorial (photos on the screen)
Memories + Candles
Sheryl (words and Song)
Corina Lang
Glynn Wilson
Music -Lucky One’s Allison Krauss
830pm Ashes in Bonfire (Jack)
9pm- Barn Dance Live Music (Rec Barn)
Sunday May 26
6-7 am Yoga with Anna (Meet in Rec Barn)
7-8am Breakfast
830-1pm Botany Hike with Richard Foster (Meet outside of office near Front parking lot)
830-1130am Jason Drevenak (Set up Near Dining Room) Wild Craft Workshop
900-1030 Scott Banbury Orienteering with Map and Compass (Retreat Center by Office)
12-1p (lunch)
Silent Auction Ends at 1245pm – Please collect your items and pay
115-300pm Jim Scheff (Retreat Center- Room by Office)
200-300 pm Scott Banbury Getting Good Environmental Legislation Passed
315-430 pm “Granny D” (Retreat Center) (Barbara Smith & Jeff Sebens) Live Theater & Music
6-7pm Supper
715 pm- Skit (Room by Office) ( 2 Guest Stars and a whole lot of fun)
Live auction
Talent show
Monday May 27th
8-9am Breakfast
9-10am Closing Circle (Bon Fire) Location TBA
11am Cleanup and Go Home
Speakers and Entertainment
Jim Scheff- (Kentucky Heartwood) Speaker
Jim Scheff has worked as the Director
of Kentucky Heartwood since 2008. Prior to moving to Kentucky, Jim was active
in national forest protection efforts in his home of Missouri beginning in
2000, and has been involved with several regional and national forest
protection organizations.
Jim earned his B.S. in Biology from Webster University in St. Louis, M.A. in
Environmental Science from Washington University in St. Louis, and M.S. in
Biology and Applied Ecology from Eastern Kentucky University. The subject of
Jim’s graduate research at EKU was an investigation into the development of
old-growth forest characteristics in second-growth forests in the Daniel Boone
National Forest.
Jim worked as a landscaper and biology teacher throughout his years of graduate
school and unpaid and barely-paid advocacy work, and is fortunate and grateful
to be employed in the work to protect our public lands in Kentucky. Jim lives
in Berea, Kentucky with his wife and Kentucky Heartwood Coordinator Tina Marie
Johnson, along with his daughter, stepdaughter, and stepson.
Davis Mounger (TN Heartwood) speaker and Outing)
Davis is the Co-founder to Tennessee Heartwood has been working on National Forest issues since 1993, starting with the six National Forest districts (DeSoto, Tombigbee, Delta, Homochitto, Bienville, and Holly Springs) in Mississippi, and now focuses on public lands in eastern Tennessee and the surrounding area. He has taught high school for 20 years, including Chemistry, Environmental Science, Biology, English, Theater, French, and Electrical Energy Systems. In his rare spare time, he enjoys playing psychobilly blues punk music on guitar.
Shelby Ward- (Environmental Lawyer) Speaker
Shelby Ward serves communities in Tennessee by enforcing water pollution control, because life requires clean water.
As an attorney, she advocates on behalf of clients for positive environmental outcomes. In her nonprofit work, she works toward broad-scale change to improve Tennessee’s environment, economy and public health. Through entrepreneurship, she connects environmentally progressive suppliers and customers.
Shelby serves as Vice-Chair for the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (Public Lab)’s Board of Directors. She also serves on the Knoxville 2030 Climate Change Study Group and is a member of the Tennessee Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association. She is a co-founder of the annual Appalachian Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (“APIEL”) held in Knoxville, Tennessee. Each summer, she volunteers at the Great Smoky Mountains’ Institute at Tremont’s Girls in Science Camp.
She blogs about law and other topics at shelbywardlaw.com.
Shelby is a modern quilter and member of the Modern Quilt Guild, Knoxville Chapter. She is always ready to discuss fabrics.
Scott Banbury (TN Sierra Club) Speaker and workshop
Scott Banbury is the Tennessee Chapter of the Sierra Club’s Conservation Program Coordinator. In this role, he works with and organizes communities across Tennessee as they work to protect the natural resources and quality of life in their communities. Scott is also the registered lobbyist for the Tennessee Chapter of the Sierra Club. Scott started working on environmental issues when he was 15 years old and has spent the subsequent 30+ years immersed in urban environmental justice, water and air quality, rural resource extraction, voting rights, and open government issues. Scott has helped form and grow numerous local and regional organizations, including the Tennessee Clean Water Network, Tennessee Forest Council, Frack-Free Tennessee and the Dogwood Alliance. He lives in Memphis, TN with his wife, a registered midwife, and two teenage children.
Jason Drevenak of the North American Bushcraft School (Wildcraft Workshops)
Jason Drevenak is president of the North American Bushcraft School and began his relationship with the outdoors as a child on the same property where the North American Bushcraft School operates today. He spent over six years in the U.S. Army as an Airborne combat medical specialist, created and operated The Conch Republic Kayak Company, a sea kayak company and summer camp in Key West, Florida, and has worked at several ACA white water and ocean kayaking schools on the east and west coasts of North America. Jason was the Manager and Head Instructor for The Nantahala Outdoor Center’s Wilderness Survival & Primitive Skills School for several years. Jason is also the Lead Instructor for the Outdoor Leader Degree’s Primitive Living course offered at Southwestern Community College in Bryson City North Carolina. Some of Jason’s mentors include Dr. Erret Callahan, Nancy Basket, Eddie Starnater and Richard Cleveland. Jason regularly teaches and offeres demonstrations at the Earthskills Rendezvous in Georgia, Firefly and Piedmont Gatherings in North Carolina and the Mother Earth News Fair in PA. He currently holds an NC and WV EMT-Intermediate certification as well as being an AHA CPR BLS and AED Instructor, Jason also teaches wilderness medicine for Stone Hearth Open Learning Opportunities (SOLO) and back-country firecraft at the annual Appalachian Wilderness Medical Conference and the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine. In 2015 Jason trekked the entire Serengeti National Park in Tanzania Africa with the National Geographic channel for a TV documentary called “Mygrations”
GO, GRANNY D!
Currently touring nationwide, actress Barbara Bates Sm
ith and musician Jeff Sebens
will present “Go, Granny D!
You’re never too old to raise a little hell,the 90-year-old Doris “Granny D” Haddock in 2000 blazed a 3200-mile trail across America for campaign finance reform, precipitating the passage of the McCain-Feingold Act. She continued her bipartisan reform efforts in countrywide voter registration drives, issuing her final challenge in 2010 at age 100: “Democracy is a running game. You huddle and you go back in. You keep going.” “This show totally rocks!” said Quaker Pastor Philip Raines of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Blog reviewer Michelle Grasty wrote, “This show will make you laugh and think and beg for more.” Sponsor Felecia Shelor said, “A full house of Liberals and Conservatives all loved the play.” “This fabulous show based on Granny D’s memoirs brings her to life!” proclaimed her press secretary Maude Salinger. From the Daily Kos,”You will laugh and you will cheer,” was penned by Palo Alto’s Elizabeth Kasensky. Barbara Bates Smith, noted for her Off-Broadway adaptation and performance of Ivy Rowe from Lee Smiths Fair and Tender Ladies, has toured for twenty-five years with the works of Lee Smith. She has been active in the NAACP’s Moral Monday reform movement in North Carolina, even as an arrestee, in the spirit of Granny D’s efforts to reclaim our democracy. For a decade, Jeff Sebens has accompanied her shows with a variety of hammered dulcimer, lap dulcimer, guitar, and banjo music.
More information is on her website:
www.barbarabatessmith.com
Cash Daniels
Cash Daniels is an aspiring environmental conservationist. At the age of 9, Cash has taken on saving the environment, primarily our rivers and oceans. Cash hosts monthly river clean-ups. He uses these clean-ups as a way for people to come face to face with the issue of littering and pollution. Cash has also become a little entrepreneur making vintage cloth bags from recycled t-shirts and straw pouches for reusable straws to inform and educate others on plastic pollution. Cash was honored by Keep Tennessee Beautiful as the youngest in the state to “Adopt a River Mile” and works closely with this program. He has also hosted environmental movie nights to get the discussion about plastic pollution started in businesses and restaurants. Cash is very motivated and loves educating others on small ways to make a big impact. Recently Cash has also became an Author.
Richard Foster
Richard Foster has twenty years of
field and community experience, beginning as a volunteer in a playground
committee. Among other things, he hand-pulled an appalling amount of poison ivy
at a site politically chosen and organized a plant rescue to move the best to a
nature trail area.
Richard has a Bachelor of Science in resource ecology & management
from U of MI’s School of Natural Resources & Environment and received his
Master of Science is from ETSU for researching control of an invasive grass in
a bog preserve that grew cranberries. He been a graduate student
instructor for an introductory biology lab class, with emphasis on ecological
principles. He progressed from a field and laboratory research assistant in U
of MI’s School of Natural Resources & Environment’s Soils, Watershed, &
Terrestrial Ecosystems lab to manage ETSU’s Herptile Laboratory animals and the
Center for Great Lakes & Aquatic Science’s Nutrient Chemistry Lab. Richard
led a spreadsheet project to identify and assess trees and other vegetation at
risk from construction. U of MI’s Center for Sustainable Systems adopted the
principle. He is an original member of the Bog Learning Network.
Richard has made his living doing habitat assessment for National Forests
& the Nature Conservancy (Getting paid to walk in the woods sounds good but
you don’t get to choose your woods.) with some wetland delineation and habitat
restoration added in, especially wetland restoration. Other occupations include
nature trails, hikes, community gardens, arboretums, wildlife habitat and
management, a greenway, and a pollinator garden.
Meeting areas
Dining hall (near cabins and bunkhouses)
Retreat Center (By office)
Rec Barn (Near the Leadership Cabins)