Nightwalking – Book Excerpt from Forest Time
The girl behind me grabs my jacket as we head out the door. A dozen middle school students follow her, their classroom teacher in the rear. We go dark and with voices off, a flashlight tucked into my pocket [...]
Tremont Endorses the Revitalizing America’s Schoolyards Act
Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont has joined a national coalition of organizations endorsing the Revitalizing America’s Schoolyards Act (S.4258), a bill that would invest in transforming school grounds into nature-based learning environments. Across the United States, nearly 50 [...]
Understory vs. Overstory: Tremont Community Science Data in Action
Written by Tyler Thomas, Manager of Science Literacy and Research at Tremont One of Tremont’s long-term community science projects focuses on phenology, the study of the timing of the annual life cycles of living things. The timing of these [...]
