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Featured speaker, Rand Wentworth with Tall Timbers Land Conservancy Director Kevin McGorty at the recent Red Hills Spring Dinner.
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Red Hills Spring Dinner
Rand Wentworth, President of the Land Trust Alliance, was the featured guest speaker at the Red Hills Spring Dinner at Tall Timbers on April 10th. This invitation-only event, held every two years, has featured national speakers on land conservation. Mr. Wentworth heads the Alliance which is a Washington, DC based land conservation organization that provides policy, lobbying, and training services for America’s 1,667 land trusts.
Mr. Wentworth spoke about the importance of land conservation to our communities, our nation, and our world in a period of ever-changing global economic and environmental challenges. An engaging storyteller and inspiring speaker, he asked, “What do a Bronx gardener, an Amish farmer, and a Wyoming rancher have in common?” He replied, “we all want to have a real life, in a real place, with real food and real people. Land is where these hopes are fulfilled, and land trusts are preserving the beauty of the place we call home.”
The dinner event also recognized landowners who generously donated easements to Tall Timbers in 2007-2008, saving nearly 37,000 acres of land in southwest Georgia and north Florida.
(L-R) Invitational winners, Blair Bailey and Shane Wellendorf with event coordinators Dr. Bill Palmer, director of the Tall Timbers Game Bird Program and Vann Middleton, Director of Development for Tall Timbers.
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Announcing the winners
of the Georgia/Florida
Turkey Invitational
The Fourth Annual Georgia – Florida Turkey Invitational was held Friday, March 27. Like our other Game Bird events of late, the rain came down in buckets, but it did not dampen the enthusiasm of our participants. We had 45, 2-person teams from Albany to Tallahassee entered this year, including Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue who was teamed with Tony Pope of Osceola Plantation.
The evening prior to hunkering down in the soggy woods, the teams met for the traditional rules dinner at Osceola Plantation in Thomas County, GA. A thunder storm, which took out the power for a while, didn’t put a damper on the night as the lights came on before the dinner program began. The program featured champion turkey caller, Eddie Salter, from Hunter’s Specialties, who presented a film on turkey hunting that captured everyone’s attention. Read more...
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