FW: sedge ID workshop

 

From: whmoorhead@optonline.net [mailto:whmoorhead@optonline.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 9:39 AM
To: contact@atonforest.org
Subject: sedge ID workshop, this time with attachment

 

Dear actual and potential sedge-o-phile,

 

Attached is an announcement of a 2-day workshop I am instructing, on July 7-8, on the field identification and ecology of sedges (genus Carex) in northwestern Connecticut, sponsored by Aton Forest, Inc.  Please review the announcement and consider attending, if you are an intermediate to advanced botanizer who has a strong interest in gaining (or regaining) more taxonomic confidence in the field with largest genus of flowering plants in Connecticut (and North America).  It is not a beginner's guide to grass-like plants.  This workshop will focus, in largest part, on wetland habitats.  I hope that this will be the first in a series of annual field identification workshops that will focus on different habitat suites, seasonal timings, and geographic subsets of Connecticut.

 

Also, please note, the New England Wildflower Society, though not a sponsor, has graciously agreed to count this workshop to count as one elective course or one core course, respectively, for those in their Field Botany and Advance Field Botany certificate programs.

 

Also, please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone else you think would be interested in this workshop.      

 

Bill Moorhead
Consulting Field Botanist
486 Torrington Road
Litchfield, CT 06759
Phone & FAX: 860-567-4920
Cell phone: 860-543-1786
Email: whmoorhead@optonline.net

AF Bird Walk - Saturday, June 6th at 8:00 AM

Hello naturalists!

You are invited to a bird walk at Aton Forest on Saturday, June 6th at 8 am, lead by local bird enthusiast Ayreslea Denny.

 

Meet at the Log Cabin, 70 South Sandisfield Road, Aton Forest, Norfolk. (Call or email for more directions or check our website at www.atonforest.org.) We will be walking around the open field south of the cabin to the shore of the large beaver pond and then up the road and onto some of the forest trails of Aton Forest. Most of the walking will be easy and there will be access to a restroom at the cabin. Please wear proper footgear for hiking and be prepared for some biting insects and ticks.

Please RSVP

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Hope to see you soon,

John P. Anderson Jr.

Executive Director, Aton Forest, Inc. and Aton Forest Fellow

E-mail: johnanderson7440@sbcglobal.net

Office: 860-542-5125

Mail: PO Box 509, Norfolk, CT 06058

 

If you know others who might be interested in attending these get-togethers, please send me their contact information.

If you are no longer interested in being notified about these meetings, please e-mail me at johnanderson7440@sbcglobal.net.