$5,000 Appalachian Trail Conservancy grant to study rare plant species along the Appalachian Trail in June 2007.
MTS partners with The Conservation Consultant and BioGeoCreations to provide baseline documentation for James City County conservation lands, Williamsburg, VA.
Kevin was recently interviewed for the "Outside 9 to 5" in the Asheville Citizen Times.
In 2007, MTS discovered new county and state rare species records in 2007 to be published in upcoming issues of CASTANEA - The Journal of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society. These new records include the second reported NC population of Twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla), and new county records for many others including Carolina Holly (Ilex ambigua), Virginia Stickseed (Hackelia virginiana), Sweet White Trillium (Trililum simile), Mountain Sugarberry (Celtis occidentalis), Meehania (Meehania cordata), Climbing Fumitory (Adlumia fungosa), and Tinker's Wild Coffee (Triosteum aurantiacum).
In 2006 /2007 MTS documented new state wildlife records including the very rare "Golden-banded Skipper" (Autochton cellus) butterfly in Madison & Buncombe Counties, the rare Ohio Brook Lamprey, and Cerulean Warbler populations in Madison County.
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