Wildflowers In The Upper Cumberland

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This week on Upper Cumberland Outdoors... Host Brad Halfacre sits down with Tennessee Tech University Botany and Biology student, Eli Harris. Together they discuss what made him choose to attend TTU and his early life growing up in Cookeville, the various tools that people can take with them on hikes to help identify wildflowers and other plants, as well as what got Eli interested in the outdoors, and wanting to be outside in general.

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11 Mar 2023 English United States Wilderness · Leisure

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