Please join us to learn about the Bay Area Greenprint, a new online mapping tool that reveals the benefits of natural and agricultural lands across the region. Whether you are from a government agency, an environmental or conservation organization, the private sector, or academia, this tool will be a useful …
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Discover the magnificent, moldy world of fungi. We’ll join Autumn Summers for a leisurely saunter at LandPaths’ beautiful Riddell Preserve, protected forever by your Sonoma County Ag & Open Space District. We’ll highlight edible, medicinal & common mushrooms, their amazing lifecycle, and how to find them. Level of Hike Difficulty: …
Join LandPaths and the Sonoma County Ag & Open Space District for a morning of poetry at Steamer Landing Park, protected forever through the District’s Matching Grant program. Poet Jackie Huss Hallerberg will conduct a Poetry Workshop exploring the themes of local landscapes, local watersheds, and nature. All levels of …
Join Sonoma Ecology Center staff to learn to interpret fire landscapes at the District-protected Keen Property, which burned in the October wildfires. We will be watching for special “fire follower” wildflowers, assessing burned trees, and learning how to interpret fire landscapes. Discussion questions include: Why did this happen? What does it …
Join LandPaths and the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District as we enjoy Saddle Mountain Open Space Preserve through the interpretive lens of fire ecology. While Saddle Mountain didn’t burn in the Tubbs fire, there will be views of the burned area, and we’ll have an opportunity to …
Join Sonoma Ecology Center staff to see the land rebound on Arrowhead Mountain, which burned in the October wildfires. We will look at the chaparral plants sprouting, watch for special “fire follower” wildflowers, assess burned trees and learn how to interpret fire-affected landscapes. We will discuss: Why did this happen? …
¿Alguna vez te has preguntado cómo un hongo parece salir mágicamente del suelo? ¿O cuántos diferentes colores de hongos hay? ¿O por qué algunos hongos tienen una forma típica redonda, pero otros son extraños y viscosos? Si es así, esta aventura enfocada en niños es para ti. Aprenderemos sobre el …
Ag + Open Space item: Living in A Fire-Adapted Landscape: Accept the “Living in a Fire Adapted Landscape” report from the countywide Watershed Collaborative to integrate relevant recommendations into the Recovery & Resiliency workplan