Letter from the Board Chair and Board Members 2011

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From the Board Chair-- Thank you for your interest in and support of Discover Life in America. Another year with DLIA means identifying more new species in the Smokies (and often to science), enabling more students to learn about the vast diversity of life, promoting more opportunities for growth and development as an organization. The new year brings plenty of possibilities and challenges. Discover Life in America is in its fourteenth year of the All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Literally hundreds upon hundreds of people have been involved in collecting, identifying, data entering, and supporting the effort. I am always fascinated by the new information, the incredible pictures, the amazing stories of life in this wonderful place we call the Smokies. However, we would have accomplisheded nothing without dedicated people who search, support, and give. It is critical to learn about all the forms of life in these ancient mountains. Our own existence depends on determining the connections to all other life. E. O. Wilson in his book,The Creation, uses the image of the earth as a single organism with humanity as the brain This idea intrigues me. I certainly want to know about my own body. If I don’t know my own body, then how do I know if I am healthy or not? How can I improve my health? The ATBI is taking our pulse, our temperature, our blood pressure, our vital statistics The ATBI is NOT an effort to study something that is somehow “out there.” We are learning about our own life. I hope that you will join us in this exciting effort in 2011.

Charles Maynard

Chair, Board of Directors

Discover Life in America

2011 DLIA Board of Directors

Mary Thom Adams -elected 2010 (2012) Ijams Nature Center

Steve Bohleber -elected 2003 (2011) Bohleber Law Offices

Clay Bolt –elected 2011 (2013) Co-Founder, Meet Your Neighbors

Dr. Patricia B. Cox –elected 2003 (2011) TVA

Logan Coykendall –elected 2011 (2013) Hospitality Management Solutions

John Craig - elected 2011 (2013) Segundo Properties

Dr. W. Michael Dennis -elected 2007 (2013) Breedlove, Dennis & Associates, Inc.,

Wanda DeWaard -elected 2008 (2012) Earth Kin Consulting

J. Ralph Jordan -elected 2009 (2011) Retired TVA

Dr. Don Linzey -elected 2008 (2012) Wytheville Community College

Dan Lipe -elected 2011 (2013) Dan Lipe Design- and Scripps Networks

Laura Mahan -elected 2011 (2013) The Compleat Naturalist

Jim Manring -elected 2009 (2011) Western Carolina University

Charles Maynard -elected 2009 (2011) Holston Methodist Conference and Camps

Dora Nelson -elected 2011 (2013) Carolina Day School

Patricia Parr -elected 2009 (2011) Oak Ridge National Lab

Dr.Dan Pittillo -elected 2008 (2013) Retired Western Carolina University

Jim Richards -elected 2009 (2011) Mast General Stores

Moria Robinson -elected 2009 (2011) Middlebury College

Dr. Charles R. Smith -elected 2011 (2013 Cornell University

RB Summitt -elected 2008 (2012) Sevier County Bank

Dr. Lea Davis White -elected 2011 (2013) Trinity Medical Associates