Yosemite Area Audubon

4540 Ashworth Road
Mariposa, CA 95338
209-742-5579
Kris Randal, President

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Yosemite Area Audubon

Schedule of Speakers

 

Yosemite Area Audubon Society monthly meetings are held the second Thursday of each month October through May at 7 p.m.
Mariposa Methodist Church
Parish Hall
6th St. between Hwy. 140 and Bullion St.
Mariposa CA.

January Program Speaker

January 10, 2008

Katharina Ullman
California Pollinator Conservation Coordinator for the Xerces Society will present on local bees and their tremendous contribution to our natural and farm habitat.

February 14, 2008
Alison Colwell

Our guest speaker is Alison Colwell, Botanist with the U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Yosemite Field Station, El Portal, CA, doing botanical surveys for the park including significant contributions to the recently discovered Yosemite bog-orchid (Platanthera yosemitensis) in Yosemite. Read our press release for this month's program. http://www.nps.gov/yose/parknews/yborchid.htm

March 13, 2008
Sara Stock
Ornithologist, Yosemite National Park

April 10, 2008
John Muir Laws
Naturalist, educator and artist John (Jack) Muir Laws delights in exploring the natural world and sharing this love with others. He has worked as an environmental educator for over 25 years in California, Wyoming, and Alaska. He is trained as a wildlife biologist and is an associate of the California Academy of Sciences. His illustrations capture the feeling of the living plant or animal, while also including details critical for identification.

His most recent book, The Laws Guide to the Sierra Nevada, is an illustrated field guide to more than 1,700 species of plants and animals and is beautifully illustrated with 2,710 original watercolor paintings. This comprehensive and easy to use guide allows botanists to identify the insects that come to their flowers, birders to identify the trees in which the birds perch, or hikers to identify the stars overhead at night. Jack will present an illustrated lecture about the natural history of the Sierra Nevada, and the process of creating a field guide.

He will also bring original illustrations that have been painted in the field. In the summer of 2004, Laws published Sierra Birds: a Hiker's Guide. He is also a regular contributor to Bay Nature magazine with his "Naturalists Notebook" column. He is currently coordinating efforts to create a curriculum to tie the field guide to the State of California education standards and secure funding to donate sets of field guides to every elementary and high school in the Sierra Nevada and teaching field sketching and natural history classes throughout the state.
http://www.johnmuirlaws.com/

May 8, 2008

Tentative-Allen Fish of the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory

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Yosemite Park management
Sierra National Forest Management

Sphere of Influence: Mariposa, Sierra National Forest/Watersheds: Merced, San Joaquin and Kings, Mariposa County, Eastern Madera County, Yosemite National Park, Sierra National Forest and watersheds, Eastern Merced County.

 

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