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Summer Wildflowers & Ferns Workshop for Norfolk Days
Inscrutable
Graminoids: Field Identification of Grass-like Plants in Late June
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.
Date and time: Thursday, June 30,
2016, 9:00AM – 3:00PM
Meeting and ending location: municipal
parking lot behind 25 West St, Litchfield, CT
Tuition: $75. Registration and payment required in advance. Enrollment will be on a
first-come-first-served basis, and is limited to 15. Any advanced payments will refunded in full if
the workshop is cancelled by us, for any reason.
Things you will need to bring: a brown bag lunch and choice of drink if other than water (Aton will supply bottled water); 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 footware for both upland and ankle-deep wetland sites; rain
gear (the workshop runs rain or
shine).
For more information, contact Bill Moorhead (860-543-1786, whmoorhead@optonline.net) or John Anderson, Executive Director, Aton
Forest, Inc. (office phone: 860-542-5125;
email:contact@atonforest.org)
WILLOWS DEMYSTIFIED!
A one-day field identification workshop.
Learn your willows (Salix).
We will cover the identification and ecology of the 19 Connecticut species and several of the hybrids of this troublesome genus. The workshop will begin with a lab session at Aton Forest, and then we will hit the field, visiting several sites in the vicinity of Aton. This workshop will run, rain or shine. If the weather is bad enough, we will extend the lab session, using fresh collected material.Each participant should bring: a good quality hand lens with at least 10X magnification; fine-pointed forceps that can be carried in the field; hip waders, knee-high rubber boots, or shoes that can get wet; his/her choice of insect repellant, sun protection; field notebook; collecting bags; camera, if desired.
Coffee and other beverages will be available while at Aton Forest. Lunch is not provided -- participants need to bring their own brown bag lunches. Water will be provided.
Instructor: Bill Moorhead, Consulting Field Botanist, 486 Torrington Rd, Litchfield, CT 06759. Telephone: 860-567-4920. Email: whmoorhead@optonline.net.
Date and time: Thursday June 2, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
Location: Aton Forest, Inc., 270 North Colebrook Road, Norfolk, CT.
Tuition: $50.00. Registration and payment required in advance. Enrollment will be on a first-come-first-served basis, and is limited to 15. Any advanced payments will refunded in full if the workshop is cancelled by us, for any reason.
Aton Forest Workshops
BIRDING BY EAR
Come learn to recognize bird
calls and identify species by their song. Expert local birders will lead two separate workshops
through Aton Forest's fields
and woodlands in search of the many birds residing in and passing through the
preserve.
SATURDAY MAY 14th
(rain date Sunday, May 15)
(rain date Sunday, May 15)
with Bob Barbieri
SATURDAY JUNE 4th
(rain date Sunday, June 5)
(rain date Sunday, June 5)
with Fran Zygmont
8:00 AM – 10:30 AM
270 North Colebrook Rd. Norfolk, CT 06058
Fee To Registration for
each workshop: $10
Additional Suggested Donation: $15 per person
Workshop is limited to 15 participants