Noontime Notions – The Future of Public Lands in Transylvania County

The Noontime Notions series continues on September 17 with Jack Igelman presenting “The Future of Public Lands in Transylvania County”.  The program will begin at noon in the Rogow Room at the Transylvania County Library. Noontime Notions programs feature authors, performers, and presenters providing engaging notions for consideration, enjoyment, and discovery.   The program is made possible by the Friends of the Library and will last approximately one hour.

Jack Igelman is the lead environmental reporter for Carolina Public Press and teaches economics at Warren Wilson College. During his two decades as a reporter he’s written dozens of articles about people’s relationship to public lands in Western North Carolina.  He’s reported on a spectrum of topics that inform readers about what motivates people to care so deeply about a place. Among them as the tradition of elk watching in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park; or how and why the Cherokee revere, harvest, and steward forest resources, such as ramps and ginseng; or the area’s fraught relationship with public land including wilderness designation, dam creation, and the formation of the area’s national forests and public parks.

Jack will discuss his current reporting on issues and topics with the Pisgah National Forest and Western North Carolina.