Overton Park Conservancy, the Memphis Zoo, and the City of Memphis are excited to share that work is underway on the project that will end Greensward parking and create a new walking trail in the Old Forest State Natural Area. If you’ve walked in the
words and photos by Melissa McMasters As I walked through the Old Forest this week, the sound of yellow-rumped warblers cautiously testing their voices and Carolina wrens belting familiar tunes put me in a musical mood. I started thinking about how spring is the season
words and photos by Melissa McMasters I often say that next to spring (the undisputed champion), winter is my favorite time to be a birder. The leafless trees make birds much easier to see, and we get to spend leisurely time with our local residents
words and photos by Melissa McMasters A few decades ago, a British travel agency began a marketing campaign around the idea that the third Monday in January was the most depressing day of the year. They called it “Blue Monday,” with the idea that the
words and photos by Melissa McMasters If you’re the sort to make New Year’s resolutions, now is the time to grudgingly start thinking about your plans for self-improvement. A few years ago, I set two goals for myself, thinking that if past was prologue, they were
words and photos by Melissa McMasters As the mornings finally start to turn crisp, I get a familiar feeling. It happens every fall: I’m so grateful to make it to the end of another long summer, to feel everything slow down a bit, to experience the
We’re excited to share that the Memphis Zoo and Overton Park Conservancy have been awarded a grant from the American Zoological Association’s Conservation Grants Fund. Our proposal to create a monarch butterfly habitat in Overton Park was one of just eight projects funded out of
words and photos by Melissa McMasters Here in Memphis, wood-warblers are birds that we see only in fleeting glimpses. Just a few species breed this far south, so our encounters with them are limited to a few weeks during their spring and fall migrations. After
Today officially marks my first day as your new Executive Director of Overton Park Conservancy. While we are lucky Tina will be sticking around a bit longer during a transition period and as we work to hire my replacement, I am eager to step foot
Sometimes small changes can have a big impact, and that’s been made thrillingly clear with Overton Park Conservancy’s addition of two pollinator-friendly planting beds at Veterans Plaza this summer. After we lost the crape myrtles in these raised beds to frost, we took the opportunity
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