Workshops

Plant Communities of Anza-Borrego

01/16/2010 - 9:00am
01/16/2010 - 4:00pm

A program to provide an overview of the major plant communities in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Location: 
Meet at ABDSP Visitor Center

Instructor: Michael Wangler, Professor of Geography, Cuyamaca College
Fee: $45, or $35 for ABF members

Perennial Desert Plants

11/28/2009 - 8:00am
11/28/2009 - 12:00pm

On this easy half-day trip, we will visit a wide variety of desert shrubs, trees, and cacti and listen to their tales of survival in the desert.

Location: 
Meet at ABDSP Visitor Center parking lot

Instructor: Paul Johnson
ABF Members $25; Non-members $35

Desert Sky Photography for Beginners

11/21/2009 - 12:30pm
11/21/2009 - 7:00pm

If you enjoy photography and are fascinated by the night sky, this hands-on workshop is for you! 

Location: 
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Visitor Center

Instructor: Dennis Mammana
Fee: Members $35, Non-members $45

Desert Animal Extravaganza

05/24/2009 - 6:00pm
05/25/2009 - 12:00pm

Bring your love of the desert and sense of adventure and join Park Volunteer Naturalists Joe and Donna Hopkins for a Memorial Day weekend of searching for and observing desert animals.

Location: 
meeting locations vary

Instructors: Joe and Donna Hopkins

Advanced Track and Sign Class

05/23/2009 - 8:00am
05/23/2009 - 3:00pm

Have you ever wanted to be able to “read” those mysterious tracks on the ground? Would you like to help document the activities of wildlife in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park® and elsewhere? Then this series of classes is for you!                                      

Location: 
TBA

Instructors: Barry Martin and Western Tracking Institute
Fee: $100 for ABFI members, $110 for nonmembers

Archaeology Weekend

02/21/2009 - 9:00am
02/22/2009 - 3:00pm

Join us for a celebration of over 75 years of preserving cultural resources with a weekend full of field trips, lectures, activities for kids, demonstrations, an ice cream social and silent auction!

Location: 
ABDSP Visitor Center, unless otherwise indicated

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Visitor Center
Borrego Springs, California
February 21-22, 2009

Illustrated Nature Journaling

03/07/2010 - 8:00am
03/07/2010 - 4:00pm

Enhance your enjoyment of spring wildflowers by learning to document them through photography or sketching!

Location: 
Meet at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Visitor Center

Journaling, especially when enhanced by your own illustrations, can add much to your enjoyment and remembrance of time in nature.

Indian Hill Rock Art Shelter

02/07/2010 - 9:30am
02/07/2010 - 4:00pm

This Trip is Now Full.

Location: 
Meet at the interpretive panel at the entrance to Morteros Wash on Hwy S-2

This trip is now full. Please call 760-767-4063 if you would like to be on the wait list.

Fishing in the Desert

02/28/2010 - 9:00am
02/28/2010 - 4:00pm

Native peoples of the Colorado Desert and Lower Colorado River were fisher-folks when opportunities arose. Learn the techniques used to catch fish, prepare it, and transport it.

Location: 
Begole Archaeological Research Center

Instructor: Joan Schneider, PhD
ABF Members $35, Nonmembers $45

Flowering Plants of the Low Desert

02/20/2010 - 9:00am
02/20/2010 - 4:00pm

Learn to identify the flowering plants found at lower elevations within the Anza-Borrego Desert.

Location: 
Meet at ABDSP Visitor Center

Instructor: Michael Wangler, Professor of Geography, Cuyamaca College
Fee: ABF Member $35; Nonmember $45

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