Naturalist Scott Dean will share his photographs, knowledge, and sense of humor with the WNC Sierra Club just when Spring is really getting underway in the mountains. The well known wildflower tour leader and founder/current instructor of the Blue Ridge Naturalist Program at the Arboretum, will demonstrate how to identify both local iconic and rarer species through photographs as fascinating as the species themselves.

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Scott Dean was born and raised in the mountains of southern Appalachia, specifically the coalfields of West Virginia and southwestern Virginia.  Western North Carolina has been his home since 1992. After retiring from the military, he attended UNC-Asheville, earning a degree in biology, with a focus on the flora, fauna and geology of the southern Appalachians.