April’s First Saturday Seminar will be held on April 5th. This month’s topic will be the conservation challenges posed by extended drought. Following a casual pancake breakfast at 8:30, the seminar will begin in earnest at 9:00 am with a showing of Troubled Waters: An Illusion of Abundance. This 1 hour documentary about the 2002 North Carolina drought was made by UNCW in 2003 and is narrated by former chancellor James Leutze. Though our current drought is certainly more severe than the events discussed in the film, it’s not inconceivable that there are some lessons to be learned from 2002. A panel/audience discussion will follow.

Panel members will tentatively be Dave Clark an Irrigation Contractor, Bill Hart – Director New Hanover County Soil and Water Conservation District, Dr. Larry Cahoon, UNCW Professor of Biology and Marine Biology and CFRW Board Member, and Philip Fragapane, Water Resource Engineer, NC DENR Division of Water Resources.

See their website for details about how each of us might help.