PREVIEW of Fall Lectures, Field Trips, and Workshops: Save the Dates!

The Santa Ynez Valley Natural History Society offers an inviting choice of seasoned and engaging speakers and field trip/workshop leaders this fall. Save the dates! Lectures are always free, and field trips have a minimal fee. Full descriptions online, via email, and in our Magpie Calls newsletter are coming soon, and registration dates for field trips begin one month in advance of each trip.

Tales from the Trough: Wildlife Images from the UC Sedgwick Reserve
Free lecture with Kate McCurdy
Co-hosted by the Los Olivos Library
Wednesday, September 18 at 7:00 p.m.

Changing of the Avian Guard at Nojoqui Falls County Park
Birding field trip with Rebecca Coulter
Saturday, September 28 at 8:00 a.m.

Santa Rosa Island Archaeology and Natural History
Free lecture with John Johnson
Thursday, October 17 at 7:00 p.m.

Geology of Upper Oso Canyon: Crunching and Cracking, Fire and Flood
Field Trip with Susie Bartz and Sabina Thomas
Saturday, October 26 at 8:30 a.m.

Cachuma Lake Cruise: Winter Birds
Field Trip with Jay Bishop
Saturday, November 2 at 8:30 a.m.

California Oaks in a Changing Environment
Free lecture with Frank Davis
Thursday, November 14, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
St. Mark’s in-the-Valley Episcopal Church, Stacey Hall
2901 Nojoqui Avenue, Los Olivos

Grow Your Own Native Oak: A Workshop on Planting Native Oak Trees
Workshop with Brenda Juarez and Gary Nett
Co-hosted by the UC Sedgwick Reserve
Saturday, December 7 at 9:00 a.m.

Our featured photo of oak savanna at the UC Sedgwick Reserve is by Nick DiCroce
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