North Branch Nature Center and the Northern Forest Atlas Project are pleased to announce a Traveling School of Botany and Ecology, to take place in Vermont and northern New York, on six weekends between May and September 2025. The school will be part course and part seminar: We will teach plant identification through classes and fieldwork, and study ecology as a group by exercises and discussions. Our field sites will be about a dozen wild Northern Forest habitats: rich woods, ledges, fertile coves, rich and poor fens, cedar swamps, boreal forests, granite hills, a large acid bog and a giant raised one, a river delta and swamp forest, and a dry-rich ledgy hill. It will be staffed by a rotating pool of five instructors—the best botanists in the north woods.
Field Sites in Adirondacks & Vermont
Six Weekends, May to September
Instructors: Jerry Jenkins, Grace Glynn, Brett Engstrom, Matt Peters & Patti Smith
Course size: 10 students
Register for the full program or “a la carte” weekends if space remains
Generous financial support is available
Learn more and register here.
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