Save Our Sandhills, Apr 30, 7 pm

The next regular meeting of Save Our Sandhills (SOS) will be on Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 7:00PM at the Southern Pines Civic Club, corner of Ashe Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.

This meeting will feature a presentation by guest lecturer Rob Evans, who will speak on the topic, "Conserving Imperiled Plants in the Sandhills and Beyond." Mr. Evans is an expert in the field of native rare plants and rare plant communities, and is responsible for the North Carolina Plant Conservation Program. He has worked with NatureServe, The Nature Conservancy, and the U.S. Forest Service. Mr. Evans has an MS in Plant Ecology from Stephan F. Austin University. He has co-authored the U.S. National Vegetation Classification System, and has co-authored a number of scientific articles.