Letter from the Board Chair and Board Members 2013

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From the Board Chair-

Thank you for considering a gift to the trailblazing work of Discover Life in America. Your contribution will help build the history-making effort that is the All Taxa Bio-Diversity Inventory in your backyard, in the Smokies.

• As of this writing, YOU have discovered 923 species brand new to science, as well as an additional over 7,600 species not previously known in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
• YOU have trained hundreds of volunteers to assist with the ATBI who have recorded over 1,500 volunteer hours.
• YOU have granted hundreds of thousands of dollars to scientists and educators in support of their efforts to discover the biological riches of the Great Smoky Mountains.
• YOU have sponsored “Bio-Quests,” such as Beetle Blitzes, Fern Forays, Lepidoptera Quests, and other intensive field surveys.
• YOU have created education programs that provide young people with the chance to learn biology from some of the world’s foremost authorities.          
• YOU have created a database and website to gather and share valuable information and to communicate the excitement of discovery to scientists, Park managers, and the world.
• YOU have created a model ATBI in the Smokies for future ATBIs around the world.
• YOU assisted volunteers, working to conserve several at-risk trees in the Smokies with our Tree Teams Project, in finding an extremely rare “punk caterpillar.’

Modern-day explorers from across the country and around the world are coming to OUR national park to learn ATBI methods. At the same time, scientists from the Great Smoky Mountains are crossing oceans to encourage and enable exploration of an ATBI nature in other lands. Please support this vital exchange of knowledge.

Give to this groundbreaking work near home that adds to the storehouse of knowledge concerning the incredible diversity of life on our planet. Please invest in education, in science, in medical breakthroughs.

Again, thank you for your contributions. Please send a gift today for this innovative work of discovery.

Patricia Dreyer Parr

Chair, Board of Directors

Discover Life in America

2013 DLIA Board of Directors

Leslee Alexander -elected 2013 (2015) LTA Consulting, LLC

Kristen Austin -elected 2012 (2014) The Nature Conservancy

Steven Bohleber -elected 2013 (2015) Bohleber Law Offices

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

Dr. Patricia B. Cox –elected 2013 (2015) TVA

Logan Coykendall –elected 2011 (2013) Hospitality Management Solutions

Dr. W. Michael Dennis -Board Vice-Chair-elected 2007 (2015) Breedlove, Dennis & Associates, Inc.,

J. Ralph Jordan -elected 2009 (2014) TVA (retired)

Dr. Don Linzey -elected 2008 (2013) Wytheville Community College

Sara Kuebbing -elected 2013 (2015) University of Tennessee

Keith Langdon -elected 2013 (2015) National Park Service (retired)

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

Laura Mahan -elected 2011 (2013) The Compleat Naturalist

Bruce Minkin, M.D. -elected 2013 (2015) Surgeon

Dora Nelson -Board Secretary -elected 2011 (2013) Carolina Day School

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

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

Lee Poston -elected 2012 (2014) World Wildlife Fund

Moria Robinson -elected 2009 (2014) University of California, Davis

J.J. Rochelle -elected 2013 (2015) Pro2Serve

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

RB Summitt II -elected 2008 (2013) Sevier County Bank