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Yosemite Area Audubon
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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
Checklist of Mariposa County Birds Member Photos Chapter Map
Areas of Interest
Links
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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Last Modified: February 05, 2008