First Lecture of the Season ~ Wednesday, January 20: Rock Creek Wildflowers
Free Lecture with Cathy Rose and Stephen Ingram. Wednesday, January 20, 7:00 p.m. Wildling Museum. 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, CA 93463. Author Cathy Rose and photographer Stephen Ingram will present their new book, Rock Creek Wildflowers, published by the California Native Plant Society. Cathy will discuss the alpine and subalpine flora native to the eastern Sierra in a talk illuminated …
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Saturday, February 20: Planting Native Oaks
Free Workshop with John Evarts and Sedgwick Docents. Saturday, February 20, 10:00 a.m. to noon. UC Sedgwick Reserve. 3566 Brinkerhoff Avenue, Santa Ynez. Participation is limited to 30. Advance registration required at synature@west.net 693-5683. What outdoor activity is fun, and in future years will help beautify any landscape, support wildlife, and combat global warming? Planting a native oak tree!! If …
Read MoreSaturday, February 27: Preceding the Manzanita Lecture: Brief Annual Meeting and Election of Board Members
Saturday, February 27, 6:45 p.m. Brief Annual Meeting and Election of Board Members. Santa Ynez Valley Grange #644, 2374 Alamo Pintado Ave., Los Olivos, CA. 7:00 pm: Manzanita Lecture and Book Signing by Tom Parker Members, please join our very brief annual meeting preceding Tom Parker’s lecture on Manzanitas. Society members will vote by ballot for new and returning board …
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Saturday, February 27: Why Are There So Many Manzanitas? An Ecology and Evolution Journey
Free Lecture and Book-Signing with Tom Parker. Co-sponsored by Solvang Library. Saturday, February 27, 7:00 p.m. Santa Ynez Valley Grange #644. 2374 Alamo Pintado Ave. Los Olivos, CA. The California Floristic Province (CFP) is the center of diversity for manzanitas (Arctostaphylos species, Ericaceae). The CFP contains 104 of 105 species known worldwide. Manzanitas are the “rock stars” of woody plant …
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Saturday, March 12: Coreopsis Hill and the Guadalupe Dunes
Field trip with Larry Ballard. Saturday, March 12, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Participation is limited to 25. Advance registration required at synature@west.net or 693-5683. Members free/nonmembers $20. The Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes National Wildlife Refuge lies within the largest coastal dune system in California. The hike takes us through dune scrub, a shrub-dominated habitat that includes dune specialist plants along with …
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Sunday, March 20: Local Spring Wildflower Foray
Field trip with Liz Gaspar. Sunday, March 20, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Participation is limited to 20. Advance registration required at synature@west.net or 693-5683. Members free/nonmembers $20. As we go to press, the rains have just begun in earnest, and we can’t predict where the best wildflowers will be in late March. It may be along the Manzana Creek, …
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Saturday, April 16: Volunteer Opportunity at Burton Mesa
Help pull thistles at beautiful Burton Mesa Ecological Reserve. Saturday April 16, 2016. 9:00-noon with optional after-lunch walk. Join the SYVNHS for a morning of weed abatement followed by a short trek into the beautiful Burton Mesa Ecological Reserve. Tim Matthews, SYVNHS board member, will lead us in removing noxious Milk Thistle, Silybum marianum, and Italian Thistle, Carduus pycnocephalus, that …
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CANCELLED due to rain: Saturday, April 9: Epic Wildflower Adventure – Carrizo Plain Area
Field trip with Denis Kearns. TRIP CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN: See note below. Saturday, April 9, 9:00 a.m. to about 4:00 p.m. Participation is limited to 25. Advance registration required at synature@west.net or 693-5683. Members free/non-members $20. Note as of 8 April 2016: We are very sorry to have to cancel the Santa Ynez Valley Natural History Society field trip …
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Saturday, April 23: Poetry in Celebration of Earth Day with Paul Willis
Free evening event. Saturday, April 23, 7:00 p.m. Tipton Meeting House. UC Sedgwick Reserve. 3566 Brinkerhoff Avenue, Santa Ynez. The Santa Ynez Valley Natural History Society and UC Sedgwick Reserve are pleased to host a poetry reading in honor of Earth Day with former Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara Paul Willis. The human relationship to the natural world and wild …
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Sunday, May 1: Blooms and Birds of Burton Mesa
Field trip to Burton Mesa Ecological Reserve with Tim Matthews and Christine Thompson. Sunday, May 1, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Participation is limited to 20. Advance registration required at synature@west.net or 693-5683. Members free/nonmembers free. This trip will explore plants and birds of the unique ecosystem protected by Burton Mesa Ecological Reserve (BMER), and will include an account of …
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