Volunteers

Stretch your legs and get out your hand lens! Spend the spring morning exploring Tennessee Valley and a portion of the Miwok Trail on a botany-oriented hike examining several plant families and genera.

Let‰ЫЄs reinvent the wheel in this hands on color mixing workshop. If you learned that red, yellow, and blue are the primary colors you have been sold a bill of goods that is guaranteed to make muddy colors! Learn a better color triad that will help you easily mix the colors you want when you want 'em.

Brian Hildebidle (Presidio Trust; Natural Resources Stewardship Coordinator) will lead this all-day field workshop on the different techniques involved in using willows for restoring riparian zones.

Stretch your legs and get out your hand lens! Explore 32 acres of Mori Point on a botany-oriented hike examining several plant families and genera.

Join the Nature Journal Club for a 1.5 hour workshop to learn how to quickly (and accurately) fill in the details of brids after sketching the basic form (the topic of last month's workshop). This will be a fun draw along lecture so bring your sketchbook and pencils!

Join the very knowledgeable Stephen Andrews (UC Berkeley Professor, specializing in soils) for this next class in his soil series. Come learn the fundamentals of soil biology and learn how to build a successful and thriving compost!

Stretch your legs and get out your hand lens! Spend the morning in old growth redwoods and on the banks of Redwood Creek for a botany-oriented hike examining several plant families and genera.

Did you ever draw a cow that looked like a dog? Learn the basic principles of drawing mammal heads and faces, which solve the most common problems artists encounter.

Hear Stephen Andrews (UC Berkeley Professor specializing in soils) discuss climate change and drought through a soils lens, and learn how soil depletion could be a greater human threat than diminished water supplies.

Taught by the skilled Naomi LeBeau (Park Stewardship Restoration Specialist), this class will provide an introduction to the botanical terms commonly used in identifying plants with a taxonomic key.