Monocots3 Field Trips

 

From Valerie Soza, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

 

These Field Trips are associated with the Third International Conference on the Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons, hosted by Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden at the Ontario Convention Center, 30 March to 5 April ,2003.

 

Conference registrants will be given first priority for the following field trips. CNPS members and other interested individuals are offered any remaining available spaces. The full price of the filed trip must be paid, but there is no requirement to register for the conference. Interested parties will be placed on a waiting list and notified between March 1-15 if space becomes available.

 

For more conference information, please visit www.monocots3.org.

 

Please contact Valerie Soza at RSABG

at valerie.soza@cgu.edu or (909) 625-8767, ext 210, for further information, or to be placed on the waiting list for a field trip.

 

Friday, March 28 (5 a.m.) - Sunday, March 30 (9 p.m.)

Baja California - Vizcaino Desert, Catavina

Leader: Jon Rebman, San Diego Natural History Museum.  Cost $450.

 

Friday, March 28 (6 a.m.) - Sunday, March 30 (8 p.m.)

Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona

Leader: Richard Felger.  Cost $370.

 

Saturday, March 29 (7 am.) - Sunday, March 30 (5 pm.) Anza Borrego State Park, San Diego County

Leader: Michael Simpson, San Diego State University. Cost $180.

 

Saturday, March 29 (7 a.m.) - Sunday, March 30 (5 p.m.)

Death Valley National Monument

Leader: Dana York, DVNM. 

Cost $370.

 

Saturday, March 29 (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.)

Joshua Tree National Monument

Leader: Bart O'Brien, RSABG Director of Horticulture. 

Cost $65.

 

Saturday, March 29 (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.)

Harford Springs County Park, Gavilan Hills, Riverside Co

Leader: Steve Boyd, RSABG Herbarium Curator.

Cost $65.

 

Saturday, March 29 (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.)

Santa Rosa Plateau Reserve

Leader Tom Chester. 

Cost $65.

 

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Sunday, March 30 (8 a.m. - 4 p.m.)

San Bernardino Mountains foothills

Leader: Andy Sanders, UC Riverside Herbarium Curator. Cost $65.

 

Sunday, March 30 (8 a.m. - 6 p.m.)

Palms to Pines Highway, low desert to San Jacinto and Santa Rosa Mountains

Leader: Scott White, White & Leatherman BioServices.

Cost $65.

 

Friday, April 4 (4 a.m.) - Sunday, April 6 (5 p.m.)

Granite Mountains, East Mojave Desert, San Bernardino Co

Leader: Jim Andre, Director of UC Riverside Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center. 

Cost $250.

 

Friday, April 4 (4 p.m.) - Sunday, April 6 (5 p.m.)

Santa Catalina Island, Southern Channel Islands

Leaders: Mark Hoefs, Steve Junak, and Robert Thorne. 

Cost $250.

 

Saturday, April 5 (7 a.m.) - Sunday, April 6 (6 p.m.)

Coastal and Central Valley plants of California

Leader: Dale McNeal. 

Cost $150.

 

Saturday, April 5 (8 a.m. - 6 p.m.)

Southern Maritime Chaparral, San Diego County

Leader: Fred Roberts. 

Cost $65.

 

Saturday, April 5 (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.)

Elsinore Peak, Santa Ana Mountains, Riverside County

Leader: Steve Boyd, .

Cost $65.

 

Saturday, April 5 (9 a.m. - 4 p.m.)

San Jacinto Wildlife Area to Lake Skinner County Park, Riverside Co.

Leader: Dave Bramlet, consulting biologist. 

Cost $65.

 

Sunday, April 6 (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.)

Cacti & Succulents of the Mojave Desert, East Mojave Desert National Preserve

Leader: Patrick Griffith, RSABG. 

Cost $65.

 

Sunday, April 6 (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.)

Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve

Leader: Michael Simpson, San Diego State University. 

Cost $65.

 

Sunday, April 6 (9 a.m. - 5 p.m.)

Santa Rosa Plateau:  Grasses, Vernal Pool Plants & Spring Wildflowers

Leader: Tom Chester. 

Cost $65.