Sewanee’s rare plants
March 12, 2010
2010 marks the 25th anniversary of Tennessee's Rare Plant Protection and Conservation Act. The Sewanee flora contains dozens of specimens found on the state list. Read more…
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SEI promotes the use of the University of the South's ecologically and culturally diverse 13,000-acre campus as a living laboratory for the interdisciplinary study of people and the land. SEI offers field-based educational programs at the undergraduate and pre-college level, and fosters faculty-mentored student research on the Cumberland Plateau.
Each summer SEI brings undergraduate and high school students to our campus to engage in field-based learning opportunities with our faculty.
Across Sewanee's forested landscape over 50 miles of hiking trails lead you to old growth cove forests, waterfalls, lakes, ancient Native American rockshelters and more.
2010 marks the 25th anniversary of Tennessee's Rare Plant Protection and Conservation Act. The Sewanee flora contains dozens of specimens found on the state list. Read more…
The Landscape Analysis Lab is currently engaged in a GIS project in which students are locating all the vernal pools on the South Cumberland Plateau. A vernal pool can be defined as a "seasonal wetland area that supports the spring growth of certain specific species". Read more…
Mary Priestley, the curator of the Sewanee Herbarium, has an article in the Winter 2010 edition of The Tennessee Conservationist magazine. Read more…
Valerie Moye with a SCCAP update: Over the past few months, myself (’07) and fellow Sewanee…