newly completed field guide.<\/a> Williams produced the digital booklet while she worked full time as the David E. Shi Center for Sustainability\u2019s Communications and Outdoor Fellow over the summer.<\/p>\n\u201cI wanted it to be an easy access point for those interested in finding outdoor activities,\u201d she said. \u201cI had no idea that so many places were so close. Many of the places are under an hour from campus.\u201d<\/p>\n
The guide features hiking and biking trails, mountain climbing locations, paddling areas and swimming spots and includes information about the Swamp Rabbit Trail as well as local and state parks. Williams divided the locations by activity, the distance of each destination from the Furman campus and categories, such as \u201clong and lively\u201d and other descriptors, so that visitors can choose accordingly.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur hope is that more folks get outside,\u201d said Kelly Grant Purvis, associate director of sustainability programs at the Shi Center. \u201cPart of being good environmental stewards is getting out and knowing what is out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Shi Center\u2019s Student Fellows program is designed to encourage students to engage sustainability in diverse ways. While the Fellows take a lead role in investigating and acting on a campus or community topic, they are also honing their academic and professional skills.<\/p>\n
For Williams, that meant acquiring some graphic design experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have always been very interested in it, and I think it\u2019s a really cool way to be creative,\u201d she said, adding that she used an online flip book creator called Flip Snack.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen creating the guide, I had a vision in mind, and what it turned out to be was a combination of my vision and my ability to use the tools given to me on the flip book creator,\u201d said Williams.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo sometimes it was a challenge for me to use my limited resources on the creator to create what I wanted,\u201d she said. \u201cBut that also made it kind of fun because then I had to be even more creative using only what was available to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Furman students are the intended audience of the field guide<\/a>. However, anyone who wants to explore the outdoors in Upstate South Carolina and western North Carolina may find it useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nataley Williams \u201921 used to turn to the internet for ideas when she wanted to escape to the wilderness. But what she found was disorganized and overwhelming. \u201cThe information to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":8354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,76,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-shi-institute-for-sustainable-communities","category-top-four-news-3rd-story","category-top-four-news-4th-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}