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Aton Forest // PO Box 509 // Norfolk, CT 06058

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Field Identification of Grass-like Plants in Late June

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

An Aton Forest workshop led by Bill Moorhead

This plant identification workshop focuses on field identification and ecology of important grasses, sedges, and rushes (collectively, “graminoids”, or grass-like plants) that are commonly encountered in Connecticut during the first part of summer.  We will cover upland grassland bird habitats, wet meadows and other graminoid-dominated wetlands, dry grasslands, and some forested habitats.  We will cover the basic features that distinguish the major graminoid groups, the terminology used in graminoid identification, distinguishing invasive and other non-native species from native species, wetland indicator values and other ecological affinities of various species.

BILL MOORHEAD is an independent consulting field botanist based in western Connecticut.  He has specialized for 29 years in the search for populations of rare plants and their habitats, and the study of plant communities and the factors determining their species composition and distribution.

Location: Topsmead State Forest, Chase Road (first right off Buell Road from the north), Litchfield, CT

Date: Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM (NOTE: the workshop will begin promptly at 9:00 AM, so please try to arrive earlier)

Tuition: $85 - we accept check by mail (Aton Forest, Inc., PO Box 509, Norfolk, CT 06058) or card via PayPal (see below)
SIGNUP FOR THIS WORKSHOP HAS PAST

This workshop is limited to 15 participants.  Registration and payment required in advance. Each participant must register seperately. If the workshop is cancelled by us for any reason, any advanced payments will refunded in full or may be used to attend another workshop or may considered a donation to Aton Forest.If a participant cancells without at least one weeks notice prior to the workshop date or does not attend the workshop, any advanced payment will be forfit and may considered a donation to Aton Forest.

For more information, please contact instructor at whmoorhead@optonline.net, (860) 543-1786; or 
Aton Forest at contact@atonforest.org, (860) 542-5125.

Continuing Education Units may be available.  Please contact us in advance for more information.

Things you will need to bring: a brown bag lunch and choice of drink; a good quality hand lens/loupe with at least 10X magnification; a field notebook and writing implement[s]; bags for collecting specimens; choice of sun and insect/tick protection; appropriate footwear for both upland and ankle-deep wetland sites; rain gear (the workshop runs rain or shine).

Lunch is not provided -- participants need to bring their own brown bag lunches and choice of drink.