Keying With the Jepson Manual

Nomad Principal and Senior Botanist will be giving a workshop on “Learning to Key With the Jepson Manual” This two-day course will help participants become familiar with this tome of botanical information in both classroom and field settings. Topics covered in the course include an overview of botanical terminology; navigating dichotomous keys; understanding species descriptions, ranges, and habitats; and applying what we have learned in the field.

Sand Dunes of Oakley, California

Friends of Marsh Creek General Meeting, February 2, 2012 7pm

Liberty High School District Offices, 20 Oak Street, Brentwood

Nomad Principal and Senior Botanist Heath Bartosh will be lecturing about the sandmounds of Oakley, California. These scattered deposits of wind-blown sands from the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers harbor an assemblage of unusual plants which constitute a vegetation community unique to this region, and which has largely gone unnoticed by the scientific community. While much of the dune area and attendant plants have been destroyed by development, significant pockets of intact habitat remain.

Wayne Roderick Lecture Series

On Saturday December 10, 2011 Heath Bartosh will be giving a lecture titled “Tales from Old Greyback: a foray to the top of Southern California’s highest peak, San Gorgonio Mountain”. This lecture is part of the Wayne Roderick Lecture Series and presents some of the endemic flora encountered on a 21-mile round trip day hike to the top of this 11,500 foot peak.

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Working in Big Sur

 

Nomad Ecology has been working with PG&E in Big Sur since 2007 on projects aimed at protecting California Condors.

Read about the project at the San Jose Mercury News, “Condors vs. power lines, and for once, the condors win” by Paul Rogers.