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Red Wolves of the Smoky Mountains with Bill Landry and Lynn Hodges
Join Bill Landry and Lynn Hodges on an exciting look back into the efforts of wildlife professionals and their attempt to reintroduce Red Wolves into the Great Smokey Mountains National Park in 1991. Learn more about past reintroduction efforts and the red wolf’s embattled road to recovery. Check out the Red Wolf Ridge to find out what is going on now here at Brookgreen Gardens with the most endangered candid in the world.
About the Speakers:
Bill Landry is an award-winning TV host and producer, an author, a playwright, an actor and —at his very heart—a storyteller. Bill was the face and ‘talent’ behind The Heartland Series, produced by WBIR television in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Heartland Series covered many topics including the experiment to introduce Red Wolves into the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, which won an EMMY Award for “Front Runner”.
Lynn Hodges is an author, environmental educator, and appears as Dr. Energy on public television. His career spans five decades and includes high school teacher and Manager of Environmental and Energy Education for the Tennessee Valley Authority. He served on the team to reintroduce Red Wolves to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and developed educational materials on the Red Wolf experiment.