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Botanist John Burns will be teaching a class about the non-flowering plant species of New England: ferns, clubmoss, and horsetails. In the morning we will review the distinctive features of each of these groups used in identification and learn how their life cycles are different from seed producing flowering plants.
The
audience can expect to see fabulous slides of ferns, clubmosses, and horsetails
as well as some fresh and pressed specimens collected during the previous field
season. This will prepare us for
our afternoon foray into Aton Forest’s fields and woodlands where we’ll be able
to find numerous species and more clearly see the settings in which they grow.
JOHN
BURNS works for the New England Wildflower Society as the Administrative
Coordinator for the Plant Conservation Volunteer Program. He has traveled as far as southern
Brazil to study ferns and has done fieldwork throughout the northeast.
Location: Aton Forest
Headquarters - 270 North Colebrook Rd. Norfolk, CT 06058
Date: Friday June 21,
2013
Time: 9:30 AM – 3:00 PM
Tuition: $30 - we accept
check by mail or card via PayPal, light lunch and refreshments provided.
Workshop
limited to 15 participants, registration
and payment required in advance.
For
more information/registration please contact us at (860)542-5125 or contact@atonforest.org
Note:
If a session is canceled by us for any reason, tuition payments will be
refunded in full, by mail. If a
registered participant cancels, tuition may or may not be refunded, at our
discretion, depending upon the final class size.