Dunbar Cave State Park’s Annual Crawdad Hootenanny, May 19th

Clarksville, TN – Don your boots and join intrepid biologists Wooten & Withers for an aquatic excursion to a natural area best known for its historic cave. Dunbar Cave SNA is home to some of our most clever crayfish–the mudbugs, or burrowers.

Bring boots you don’t mind getting wet and gloves you don’t mind getting dirty.

If the raccoons don’t beat us to it, we will learn how to coax crayfish out of active burrows (“noodling”) and identify them to species.

We will meet at the Dunbar Cave office at 10:00am CT and hike to the margins of Dunbar Lake where we will begin our hike.

We will follow the loop trail looking for fresh crayfish chimneys and their occupants.

Leaders

• David Withers, Natural Heritage Program Zoologist
• Robin Wooten, Natural Areas Program Manager

This trip is limited to 15 guests. Don’t forget to contact David to make your reservation and leave a phone number or E-mail to contact you in case we have to cancel the hootenanny on account of inclement weather.

Reservations are required. RSVP to David Withers by May 14th, 2012 at 615.532.0441 or david.withers@tn.gov