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.

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.

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.