Blue Ridge Naturalist

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Dan Lazar

Biography
Dan Lazar served for many years as director of education and manager at the Western North Carolina Nature Center, followed by several years as executive director of the Colburn Earth Science Museum. He holds a degree in forest biology from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse. As a graduate student at North Carolina State University, Dan investigated Eastern Hemlock seedling establishment in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Dan is a self-employed writer and lives with his wife, Joanne, in Craven Gap, adjacent to the Blue Ridge Parkway, where he keeps a watchful eye on several hundred thousand acres of his favorite trees.