Day 4 of the Wilderness Wildlife Week at The Music Road Hotel And Convention Center In The Pigeon Forge TN

As Wilderness Wildlife Week at The Music Road Hotel and Convention Center in Pigeon Forge Tennessee day 4 begins, the snow continues and will through tomorrow.

While attendance has been affected because of the snow, there are still plenty of people showing up for the lectures and demonstrations and today we have a few special events you should not miss.

Kids will love the Knoxville Zoo's Zoomobile presenting the Wild World of Animals as well as Anne Allison and Kathy Sherrard our "bear ladies" teaching kids in a fun way about bears through the use of hands on activities.

Great Smoky Mountains national park wildlife technician Rick Varner who has spent decades working in the park will present a lecture on Wild Hog Control in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and can answer most any question about the wildlife in every inch of the park.

Lots of more great music, photography demonstrations and more are in store for anyone who braves the snow today!

• 7:00 am - 9:00 pm Information Desk Open
• 9:00 am - 6:00 pm Vendor/Exhibit Hall Open
• 9:00 am - 6:00 pm NEW WILDERNESS WILDLIFE WEEK PROGRAM: Special Photo Exhibit: Pigeon Forge Fifty Years of Progress in the Cello Room.
• 9:00 am - 10:00 am UPDATED WILDERNESS WILDLIFE WEEK PROGRAM: Returning the Osprey to Nest in Tennessee. Presented by: Ken Dubke in the Harp Room.
• 9:30 am - 10:30 am Introduction to Old Time Banjo. Presented by: Tony Thomas in the Dobro Room.
• 9:00 am - 10:30 am NEW WILDERNESS WILDLIFE WEEK PROGRAM: Ghost Birds: Jim Tanner and the Ivory Bill. Presented by: Stephen Lyn Bales in the Guitar Room. Stephen will discuss his NEW book about University of Tennessee's Dr. James T. Tanner's 1935-1941 search for the legendary ghost birds of the Southern swamps Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers.
• 10:00 am - 11:30 am NEW: Meet Mr. Herb Clabo. Hear Mr. Clabo tell of near one hundred years of living in the Great Smoky Mountains or right in its back door. Presented by: Veta King in the Ukelele Room.
• 10:00 am - 11:30 am Backpacking - Getting Started Safely. Presented by: Pamela Rodgers and Mike Braun in the Violin Room.
• 10:30 am - 11:30 am NEW WILDERNESS WILDLIFE WEEK PROGRAM: The Wolves of Bays Mountain: Recapturing of the wolves during 2009/2010. Presented by: Rhonda Goins in the Harp Room.
• 11:00 am - 12:00 pm KIDS TRACK WILDERNESS WILDLIFE WEEK PROGRAM: Wild World of Animals. Presented by: Knoxville Zoo's Zoomobile in the Guitar Room.
• 11:00 am - 12:00 pm NEW WILDERNESS WILDLIFE WEEK PROGRAM: Civil War in the West. Presented by: Jack Carman in the Dobro Room.
• 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm UPDATED WILDERNESS WILDLIFE WEEK PROGRAM: Old Time Cooking and Canning a Panel discussion with Veta King, Ruth Matthews and Frances Shambaugh. Presentation of the old time methods of cooking on a wood cook stove, canning in a black cast iron pot, and preparing meals for large families in the Ukelele Room.
• 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm The Art of Dowsing: D Harp Room Do You have the Gift?: Limit 30 participants must preregister at Information Desk. Presented by: Charlie Monday in the Harp Room.
• 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm NEW WILDERNESS WILDLIFE WEEK PROGRAM: Wing Things: W.C. and Glenna Julian and Lois English in the Violin Room They will show how many wing things dragonflies, hummingbirds and other pollinators are in our gardens and how to attract them.
• 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm The Circle of Life, the Bear Facts. Presented by: Mike Meldrum in the Guitar Room.
• 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm UPDATED WILDERNESS WILDLIFE WEEK PROGRAM: Air Quality Update for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Presented by: Jim Renfro in the Dobro Room.
• 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm NEW WILDERNESS WILDLIFE WEEK PROGRAM: Low Relief Carving-Log Cabin: Don Taylor: Limit 12 must preregister at Information Desk in the Breakfast Room.
• 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm NEW WILDERNESS WILDLIFE WEEK PROGRAM: Meet "Aunt Lydia Kear Whaley". Presented by: Ruth Carr Miller in the Ukelele Room.
• 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm NEW WILDERNESS WILDLIFE WEEK PROGRAM: The Dolomites: Travel, Hiking and Highlights: Gudrun and Peter Seifert in the Harp Room.
• 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm NEW WILDERNESS WILDLIFE WEEK PROGRAM: The Great Smoky Mountains National Park: The Community of Elkmont will be presented from four different perspectives: Lumber business, Resort homes and their destination, as well as special synchronous fireflies. Presented by: Wilma Durpo in the Violin Room.
• 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Llamas Live! Hiking with Pack Llamas. Presented by: Sandy Sgrillo in the Guitar Room.
• 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm NEW WILDERNESS WILDLIFE WEEK PROGRAM: Vingettes From Sevierville's Past: Panel discussion and video. Presented by: Carroll McMahan in the Dobro Room.
• 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm KIDS TRACK WILDERNESS WILDLIFE WEEK PROGRAM: Learn About Bears Through Hands On Activities.
• Presented by: Anne Allison and Kathy Sherrard. Limit 20: Ages kindergarten through 6th grade must preregister at Information Desk in the Breakfast Room.
• 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm NEW WILDERNESS WILDLIFE WEEK PROGRAM: Orioles! Spring and Summer. Presented by: Regina Garr in the Harp Room.
• 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Pig Tales, Wild Hog Control in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Presented by: Rick Varner in the Guitar Room.
• 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm NEW WILDERNESS WILDLIFE WEEK PROGRAM: Pigeon Forge Celebrates Fifty Years! Presented by: Veta King. Travel back in time to 1961 when Pigeon Forge incorporated with Mayor Xan Daveport, Vice Mayor Winfred Whaley, and Commissioner Wade McMahan at the helm in the Ukelele Room. Pigeon Forge residents voted 160 to 152 to incorporate. A "Sevier County NEWs-Record" article ran in July of that same year stating that the town had 974 residents and fifty-two businesses.
• 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm UPDATED WILDERNESS WILDLIFE WEEK PROGRAM: Meigs Post Line Through the Smokies: Stories from their book. Presented by: Joe Kelley and Dwight McCarter in the Dobro/Harp room.
• 6:00 pm Thursday hike sign ups Holiday Inn Express across the street.
• 6:15 pm UPDATE WILDERNESS WILDLIFE WEEK PROGRAM: Tales From Lost! Presented by: Dwight McCarter in the Dobro/Harp room.
• APPALACHIAFEST! A Musical Celebration of Our Heritage - even clogging with Appalachian Cloggers! Attendees welcome to join in the fun.
• 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Great Smoky Mountain Inhabitants and Their Music: Boogertown Gap Band in the Violin/Guitar Room.
• 6:45 pm - 7:15 pm Tony Thomas in the Violin/Guitar Room.
• 7:30 pm Carolina Bluegrass Boys in the Violin/Guitar Room.