Trees & Shrubs has been combined with Annual Plants

03/15/2009 - 9:00am
03/15/2009 - 4:00pm
Location: 
Hellhole Canyon Parking Lot on Saturday March 14, 2009

FIELD BOTANY SERIES
Instructor: Michael Wangler
Fee: Member $35; Non-member $45

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is well-known for its distinctive plant communities and spectacular springtime blooms. This series of classes will focus on field techniques for recognizing and identifying the plants of ABDSP, their flowers, and the communities in which they live. Individual classes will stress the recognition of the most common families and field identification of both common and rare individuals. With enough rain the spring bloom can be incredible, so bring your camera and be prepared to delight in nature's artistic palette.

Each trip will involve several short, moderately easy walks. Bring water, lunch, light jacket, daypack, hand lens, pencil and notebook for each trip. Academic credit available.
All vehicles OK.

Michael Wangler holds a MS degree in Geography from the University of California, Riverside, and presently serves as the coordinator of the Earth Sciences Program at Cuyamaca College. He's been studying, writing and teaching about the diverse and beautiful landscapes of the arid southwest for over 15 years, and has been teaching field courses for ABFI since 2005.