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View Poll Results: Where in the city would greatly expand and move the Fernbank museum?
Piedmont park 6 54.55%
Centennial Park 2 18.18%
North Midtown 2 18.18%
West Midtown 1 9.09%
O4W 0 0%
Voters: 11. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-03-2024, 08:07 AM
 
Location: Ono Island, Orange Beach, AL
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AP, I can't imagine it anywhere but right where it is...adjacent to the forest, as is the Science Center. There is already room for expansion, as the founders had the foresight to acquire four houses (with considerable acreage) that not only abut the museum but also front Ponce de Leon Rd. up to the intersection of Clifton.

https://www.fernbankmuseum.org/visit/our-story/

As for Piedmont Park, I'm favor of keeping it as passive as possible.
Spot on!
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Old 04-03-2024, 08:13 AM
 
Location: Ono Island, Orange Beach, AL
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Amen!
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Old 04-07-2024, 08:37 AM
 
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I don't really understand the premise of this thread. How can you move a forest? The forest is the museum.
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Old 04-07-2024, 09:39 AM
 
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Please don't mess with Fernbank. It would be just like Atlanta to uproot a perfectly fine historic facility.
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Old 04-10-2024, 03:45 PM
 
Location: St Simons Island, GA
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Please don't mess with Fernbank. It would be just like Atlanta to uproot a perfectly fine historic facility.
Arjay, mon ami, I'm surprised by your jaded take on Atlanta. I can't see this scenario playing out in such a way. Fernbank seems to have earned unqualified respect among metro Atlanta citizens just as it is.
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Old 04-12-2024, 08:39 AM
 
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Arjay, mon ami, I'm surprised by your jaded take on Atlanta. I can't see this scenario playing out in such a way. Fernbank seems to have earned unqualified respect among metro Atlanta citizens just as it is.
Well, I guess you are right, Iconographer.

I might take the grandkids over to Fernbank anyway, just to make sure they get to see it one more time before somebody decides to haul it away.
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Old 04-12-2024, 08:42 AM
 
Location: St Simons Island, GA
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Well, I guess you are right, Iconographer.

I might take the grandkids over to Fernbank anyway, just to make sure they get to see it one more time before somebody decides to haul it away.
LOL maybe they can transplant the Forest to the Gulch while they're at it. They can rename it after a Hip-Hop mogul.
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Old 04-13-2024, 12:28 AM
 
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Please don't mess with Fernbank. It would be just like Atlanta to uproot a perfectly fine historic facility.
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Well, I guess you are right, Iconographer.

I might take the grandkids over to Fernbank anyway, just to make sure they get to see it one more time before somebody decides to haul it away.
Just so everyone is completely aware, there is no actual plan or proposal to move the Fernbank Museum of Natural History from its longtime home at the historic Fernbank Forest in Druid Hills.

The subject of moving the Fernbank Museum away from the Fernbank Forest in Druid Hills is a just a hypothetical question that the OP posed and started a thread on because the OP seems to be personally unhappy with the location of the Fernbank Museum.
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Old 04-16-2024, 07:35 AM
 
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So after being around this area since 2003, Georgia since 87, I had a few hours to kill and went over to the Fernbank. I mainly went because I'm an avid tree person, and I've read several tree guides specific to the east coast. I would describe the Fernbank forest as what you would see in the 1000' to 2000' elevation section of the southern Appalachians to West Virginia. The forest was 70% massive Beech and Tulip Poplars. I want to know if the Hemlocks were planted or occurred naturally? We are very close to the native range, and we have the ravines and northern slopes to support their growth, or did.
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