Interview with Dan Pittillo

Interview with Dan Pittillo

Botanists

Botany -- Research

Environmentalism

National parks and reserves

Natural areas

Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc.

Pittillo, Dan

Radioactive pollution of soils

Western Carolina University -- Faculty

Dan Pittillo is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Pittillo has been interested in botany his whole life. He has collected and documented plants for Berea College in Kentucky, the Biltmore Estate, and in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and Blue Ridge Parkway. Pittillo discusses his doctoral research at the University of Georgia studying radio nuclei fallout and how it effects the ecosystem. He also talks about his work at WCU, which began in 1966, his role in the conservation of Panthertown Valley, and his recent writing for the Sylva Herald.

Pittillo, Dan

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade); 2010s;

2017-05-04;

Yang, Thomas H.

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

interviews

eng

Sound

35859

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35859

2018-02-06

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Cullowhee (N.C.)

Jackson County (N.C.)

Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)

00:39:49 (sound recording)(duration)

8 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina