2020 FIELD-BASED the Klamath- NATURAL HISTORY COURSES Siskiyous

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Who We Are ...... Pg. 3 SFI Members and Volunteers...... Pg. 26 Youth Education Programs...... Pg. 4 2020 Free Learning Programs...... Pg. 27 Youth Education Camps...... Pg. 7 Calendar of Courses and Events...... Pg. 28 For the Professional...... Pg. 9 Instructor Bios...... Pg. 30 Adventure Learning...... Pg. 12 The Fine Print...... Pg. 34 SFI Farther Afield...... Pg. 14 SFI Lodging and Events...... Pg. 36 Klamath-Siskiyou Forays/Siskiyou Seniors...... Pg. 16 Naturalist Certificate...... Pg. 38

Hiker Legend Please know and respect your limits

We want all our students to remain safe and comfortable during field activities. Please note the hiker legends above each course description. When you consider registering for a class, evaluate your own fitness level. Even a half-mile hike can be challenging on a sore foot or knee. If you have any questions about terrain, altitude or other hiking challenges, contact [email protected]. We always ask you to bring a hat, sunscreen, water and comfortable shoes for field trips – and remember to drink plenty of water before and during field trips.

Easy: car travel with stops and short walks up to one mile total per day Easy to moderate: hikes from 1 to 3 miles per day and/or climbs up to 500 ft. Moderate: hikes from 3 to 5 miles a day and/or climbs up to 1000 ft. Strenuous: difficult hikes over 5 miles a day (with rest stops as needed) and/or with climbs over 1000 ft. on possibly loose rock and/or uneven terrain with gear or in the dark

Example This helps you decide The hiker legend • Naturalist Certificate which courses are great (see above) denotes • Adults, Kids 16+ for kids, based on your how strenuous the child’s age. (Kids will still course is. require adult supervision.)

Cover Photo Credits: (counterclockwise from top): Marty Karlin, Rachel Walsh, Kim Ryan Bowlby, Kveta Krzistetzko, art by Dorota Haber-Lehigh, Lisa Appel, K.M. Pyle Back Cover Photo Credits: (top left to right): Joelle Jorrisen, Zane Walker, Lisa Appel Catalog Design: Andy Durst Please Support Businesses That Help SFI

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2 Siskiyou Field Institute • www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org Who We Are Field-based Nature Learning In and about the Klamath-Siskiyous Education • Research • Community

Siskiyou Field Institute specializes in Our Mission: immersive learning about the Klamath- To increase the Siskiyou ecoregion, considered one of six understanding of, global “hot spots” for animal and plant and connection to, the Klamath-Siskiyou species biodiversity. ecoregion through t SFI, youth, adults, families and groups find many ways education, scientific Ato explore: in field courses taught by instructors expert research, and public in our area’s natural history, on wild river and backcountry engagement. adventures, in our classroom and lab, in day and overnight SFI Board of Directors camps, on the ropes challenge course – and even on our front • Kathy Mechling porch enjoying a sunset view. • Maelagh Baker • Regina Castellon How SFI differs: Emphasis on immersive education • Karen Chase Teachers, we design our youth programs specifically to align • Bruce Donelson with Next Generation Science Standards. Our Outdoor School • Mark Flynn • Lyndia Hammer programs can be customized to introduce your middle school • Dan Mancuso classes to nature and science. Parents, we offer summer • Vicki Snitzler camps and expeditions that ensure your kids continue to learn while having fun. They’re geared to help nurture self- SFI Staff confidence, independence and scientific curiosity in kids • Sarah Worthington, from kindergarden to high school. Executive Director • Angie Fuhrman, Youth Our adult education courses combine the best of natural Education Programs science classroom connections with field experiences. Coordinator They range from single-day to multiple-day workshops. SFI instructors give you the benefit of their bioregional expertise; • Brandi Patterson, Administrative and many are top researchers in their fields. Lodging Just the right place for comfortable connection • Lillie Hazelton, or peaceful solitude Caretaker • Kathleen Pyle, Our headquarters offers indoor and outdoor lodging options Programs and Marketing year round. From our lodge’s windows and porch, enjoy a view of mist-draped mountains. You might even spot a gray fox, Red-shouldered Hawk, Bald Eagle or elk. From our two large outdoor yurts and meadow campsites, you can hear the music of two creeks that cross our property. The lodge’s spacious rooms include a hostel-style kitchen, great room and terrace for weddings, family reunions, staff retreats or a simple romantic getaway. The John Wayne room is a popular choice for western fans. The Duke stayed there while visiting his friend and former Deer Creek Ranch owner Chick Iversen. PHOTO BY ALEX BROIDO BY PHOTO 3 Youth2020 Youth Education Education Programs Programs

PHOTO BY RACHEL WALSH Day Program Field Modules SFI offers field-based, educational day programs that can be tailored to fit the needs of K-12 public, private, charter, and homeschool students. Day programs typically run four hours. All SFI curriculum aligns with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Common Core State Standards. Please contact [email protected] to customize your program schedule.

SnowSchool Mid-January through March on Mondays, Module emphasis: Stream inventory/survey, Thursdays, and Fridays water quality measurements (pH, temp., 35 students max, grades K-12 oxygen), comparing ponds and streams, macroinvertebrates, aquatic food webs, stream At SnowSchool on Mt. Ashland, elementary retention and flow, salmon life cycle, and through high school students can strap on human barriers to successful salmon migration. snowshoes and explore one of the sources of our local watershed. Groups meet SFI instructors at the Mt. Ashland Ski Area and Forests, Fire, & Climate Ecology head out for a fun-filled day of science Year-round, grades K-12 and exploration. Students study mountain Students examine the role of fire in snowpack,and its importance, and the ecosystems, what influences spread and characteristics of snow. intensity, and how fire can be used to maintain The SnowSchool experience can begin in the ecosystem health. After the 2018 Klondike classroom with a one-hour-long class visit and fire, the 2017 Chetco Bar fire, and the 2002 end with a snowpack prediction contest for Biscuit fire, SFI and surroundings demonstrate students to help connect them to the field. extensive successional changes that create the perfect lens for looking at the fires and their Module emphasis: watershed science, snow- role in forests. to-water equivalency, snow pit analysis, animal/plant/human adaptations, snow crystal Module emphasis: Human management of exploration, belly sliding, and other games. forest land, bark beetle study, fireboard study, carbon sequestration, vegetation survey, tree Watershed & Salmon Ecology identification, plant adaptation to climate/fire.

Year-round, grades K-12 Serpentine Geobotany By looking at the watershed through the eyes Year-round, grades K-12 of our creeks’ Coho salmon, students learn what makes a healthy waterway. Students explore the unique serpentine Students explore two creeks and a pond at ecology of this region and the flora that has the SFI using data from a 2018 Forest Service adapted to its mineral-rich, nutrient-poor soils. stream survey. Hosting a Darlingtonia fen and serpentine outcroppings, the SFI property provides ample

4 541.597.8530 • www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org SFI ARCHIVES opportunities for hands-on exploration of reserve your date. If scheduling a day program insectivorous and endemic plants. less than 14 days in advance, your deposit Module emphasis: Tectonic plates, Siskiyou will be due upon scheduling. Please see geology, serpentine endemic species, soil the Youth Education section of our website, testing/comparison (pH, soil type), soil pit siskiyoufieldinstitute.org for pricing. analysis, Darlingtonia study, abiotic/biotic relationships. High and Low Ropes Challenge Course Year-round (depending on weather) Siskiyou Flora & Fauna A Siskiyou experience like none other! Under Year-round, grades K-12 the direction of our trained facilitators, Students practice citizen science by students connect the challenges they face investigating animal and plant biodiversity and while completing the course with real-life their adaptations. SFI’s property is situated in obstacles, and develop self-confidence, trust, the heart of the Klamath Siskiyou ecoregion, a and teamwork. The Ropes Challenge Course global center of biodiversity that harbors more at SFI consists of six different high and low conifers than any other temperate forest in the ropes challenge course elements: Giant Swing, world, 280 species of flowering plants that are Catwalk, Staple Climb (the high elements), and found nowhere else, and an abundant array of Diversity Trail, Vertical Spider Web, and The varied wildlife. Bridge is Out (the low elements). Harnesses for the High Ropes section of the course Module emphasis: Plant community accommodate waist sizes between 22-51 exploration and identification, animal inches. Consider reserving our ropes course for adaptations, songbird, and migratory bird your next business retreat, family reunion, or observation, habitat requirements, animal birthday party! specimen investigation, scat exploration, tracking, terrestrial food webs, and interspecies communication.

On-demand Service Learning Projects Year-round, K-12 We work with teachers and group facilitators to provide service-learning opportunities for your group that could include planting for pollinators, invasive species removal, and riparian restoration, among others. Contact the Youth Education Programs coordinator for more information.

Day Program Fees Pricing varies based on income eligibility

guidelines. A $50 non-refundable deposit SARAH WORTHINGTON BY PHOTO is required within 14 days of scheduling to 5 2020 Overnight Residential Field Programs

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SFI’s field-based, educational residential programs can be tailored to the needs of public, private, charter, and homeschool students in grades 5-12. Residential programs are typically one to four nights in length and include meals, lodging, instruction from qualified instructors, and evening campfire activities. All SFI curriculum aligns with Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core State Standards.

SFI’s Outdoor School Spring and Fall, grades 5 & 6 providing students with a fun way to earn Students are immersed in Oregon’s natural community service hours, add meaningful landscape while learning about the Klamath volunteer experience to their resumes, and Siskiyou region through deep nature find potential employment during summer connections and place-based inquiry. Students camps at SFI. High school student leaders stay engage directly with nature to investigate, on-site for the duration of the Outdoor School measure, and report discoveries while session (3-5 days) while receiving training, enhancing social and emotional development mentorship, and progress reports from SFI as they discuss and collaborate. So they learn staff members. Passing grades, completion of faster, understand more deeply and retain all homework, and a good attendance record information longer. are all prerequisites for students wishing to become student leaders. This program qualifies for Measure 99 funding. Stay on-site at SFI for two, three, or four nights, while enjoying evening programs and Overnight School Programs nightly campfires. Schools can also qualify for Year-round, grades 7-12 Measure 99 funding with three consecutive Fit more fun and exploration into your day programs. students’ field studies by staying overnight at SFI with your class! Our residential overnight Outdoor School Student Leader programs provide an unforgettable learning Program experience for fifth grade through high school- Spring and Fall, grades 9-12 aged public, private, charter, and homeschool students. Choose from one, two, or three We are excited to offer this opportunity to nights of programming, and choose from high school-age students in the Illinois and our learning modules to fit your curriculum Rogue Valleys! Student Leaders are high school needs. All of our programs emphasize social students with an interest in environmental and emotional development, deep nature education and a commitment to community connections, collaborative skills, active service. They will build their leadership inclusion, and mindfulness. Please contact the skills by acting as a counselor, teacher, and YEP coordinator to customize your program role model for 5th and 6th grade students schedule. at Outdoor School. This program builds confidence and collaborative skills while

6 Siskiyou Field Institute • www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org 2020 Summer Outdoor Science Camps and Excursions

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We provide field-based camps and wilderness excursions for toddlers to high school-age youth all summer long. For more information, prices and scholarship availability, and to register your children, please see siskiyoufieldinstitute.org or contact us at 541-597-8530.

Backpacking Basics Residential Junior Explorer Day Camp Camp & Excursion July 27-31, 2020 June 12-16, 2020 This half-day camp provides guided This is a hybrid residential program for high school exploration and encourages play in students with an interest in hiking, camping, and the outdoors. Open to youth entering outdoor adventure. Campers spend their first of four kindergarten - 2nd grades. Campers nights at SFI preparing for a two-night backpacking explore SFI’s creeks, fields, and forests excursion, learning proper packing, backcountry while using their senses to make new cooking, and water purification skills while discoveries and find their place in unplugging and engaging with peers. The following nature. Adventures include becoming three days are spent backpacking from one location their favorite animal, fort making, and to another, identifying plants and animals of the engaging with new friends. Young Siskiyou mountains, stargazing, and applying Leave campers will need to be able to use the No Trace principles. The last night is spent back at toilet independently. Snacks are provided SFI’s campus celebrating successes, cleaning up, throughout the morning, and camp ends and reflecting upon participants’ deeper connection mid-day. to nature and newfound skills. No prior experience required; all meals and backpacking equipment are included in the price. Nature Connections Day Camp July 13-17, 2020 Wilderness & Wellness Residential Camp Open to budding young naturalists going into 2nd - 6th grades, campers June 30-July 2, 2020 spend each day using their senses to This residential overnight camp teaches self- observe nature, engage in team building nurturing and deep nature connection to high and challenge-solving activities, and schoolers. Campers disconnect from their devices develop new outdoor skills. Hiking trails, and reconnect with nature in this invigorating camp swimming holes, creekside art, and for the soul and senses. Emphasizing self-care, stress nature games are just a few of the sites management, connection with nature, and creative and activities they will enjoy. Lunch is self-expression, participants nourish their minds and included. bodies as they learn stress and health management tools including yoga, hiking, nutrition, cooking, and connection with nature. Participants will also be challenged to express themselves using story, improvisational theater, and art through various media. All meals and lodging are included. 7 2020 Summer Outdoor Science Camps and Excursions

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Bushcraft & Survival Skills Theater in the Trees Day Camp Residential Camp July 20-24, 2020 August 17-21, 2020 Open to youth entering 4th - 8th grades, this A day program for kids entering 2nd-12th camp teaches participants wilderness survival grades interested in theater, performing skills and independence. We’ll emphasize arts, and nature. Campers will be immersed sourcing and treating food and water in the in the performing arts as they learn wild, building shelters and fire, identifying storytelling and performance basics from useful plants, tracking and fishing techniques, professionals in the field. With their new and primitive tool making. All these activities skills, participants will plan an interactive, are planned within a lens of outdoor ethics nature-based theatrical experience staged and Leave-No-Trace principles. Campers will in scenes along SFI’s beautiful forest and test their critical thinking ability while meeting meadow trails. On the final day, they host a new friends and gaining useful skills. Lunch is grand performance for family, friends, and provided. community members. Lunch is provided.

Space Science Rogue River Rafting Excursion Residential Camp June 22-24, 2020 July 21-23, 2020 August 10-14, 2020 August 18-20, 2020 Held during the annual Perseid meteor shower, This two-night, three-day excursion on the this overnight residential camp is for students Rogue River is designed for high schoolers going into 5th-8th grades who want to reach entering 9th – 12th grades who have an for the stars in studying science, astronomy, interest in hydrology, watershed science, and engineering. During daytime hours, they and rafting. The Wild and Scenic Rogue River learn about the stars by studying our very own offers splashy rapids, quiet natural pools, star: the sun. Campers undertake a variety of lush canyons, and a variety of wildlife. As hands-on projects, such as measuring solar participants travel down river, they move activity, building sundials, cooking in solar backwards in time through geological ovens, and interacting with professional layers. They spend the afternoons observing astronomers on modern research topics. At and discussing first-hand local geological, night, using home-made and professional ecological and hydrological examples. They telescopes, they observe the moon and navigate rapids, conducting water quality tests, planets, attempt to count the stars in the sky, and explore what makes a healthy watershed. take an imaginary voyage to other planets Participants set up evening camp alongside the and learn their way around the summer river, discuss the impact of dams and water in constellations. All meals and lodging are the West, and find summer constellations in included. the sky. No prior experience required; all meals and rafting equipment are included. Rafts and guiding provided by Nathan Van Amburg.

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or contractors, agency professionals, educators and anyone else who wants to learn Ffield identification in depth or needs a refresher. SFI professional level courses usually have a lab component.

PHOTO BY K.M. PYLE PHOTO BY K.M. PYLE Intermediate Lichens: Sketch Your Way to Better Botany All You Need to Know About Bryoria, Melanelia and Peltigera • Naturalist Certificate • Adults, Kids 16+ • Naturalist Certificate • Adults Instructor: Linda Vorobik, Ph.D. Instructor: Daphne Stone, Ph.D. Dates: Friday-Sunday, May 1-3, 2020 Dates: Tuesday-Thursday, April 21-23, 2020 Location: SFI, Selma, OR Location: SFI, Selma, OR Tuition: $225 Local scholarships available. Tuition: $225 A great opportunity for artists or gardeners Whether you’re a seasonal or permanent who want to increase their horticultural agency botanist or an amateur naturalist in knowledge. In this workshop, students will search of in-depth lichenology help, then learn how or improve plant sketching skills this workshop is for you. We’ll expand our in pencil or pen, for field notes or journals. knowledge of three challenging lichen At the same time, they’ll increase their groups: Peltigera, Melanelia and Bryoria botanical vocabulary through observation in with Daphne’s guidance in the classroom, the classroom and in the field. Each day will under the microscope and in the field. Lab include classroom time learning techniques time will include information on chemical and sharing in a critique session and also the tests to determine species. Our forays opportunity to sketch in the field as we visit in forest and riparian areas will provide Siskiyou Mountain sites at their peak of bloom. close-up observation of lichen habitats and characteristics for identification.

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Botanizing the North Fork stops for botanizing. We’ll finish the workshop with a walk among redwood giants in Stout of the Smith River Grove within Jedidiah Smith State Park.

• Naturalist Certificate Learn to Love Those • Adults, Kids 16+ Latin Names! Instructor: Dana York, M.S. Siskiyou Seniors Dates: Friday-Sunday, May 26-28, 2020 Location: Rock Creek Ranch, Hiouchi, CA • Naturalist Certificate • Adults Tuition including camping: $250 Commuter tuition: $190 Instructor: Ann Willyard, Ph.D. Enter a world of Date: Thursday-Friday, June 4-5, 2020 crystal-clear streams, Location: SFI, Selma, OR serpentine rock, giant Tuition: $150 redwoods, carnivorous The ability to know and use Latin names for plants and trails plant species is critical for communication winding past ancient among botanists. This interactive course will cedars and California teach you skills for finding and using currently lady slippers. The Smith accepted scientific names for native plant River, which mostly lists and garden-cultivated plants. We will originates in Oregon also learn how to press plant specimens and and flows through Del create herbarium labels as well as explore how PHOTO BY LARRY BROEKER Norte County in theories of evolution, phylogenetics, plant California, is an taxonomy and identification intersect and enchanted place combining beautiful affect each other. serpentine scenery and downright “weird” plants. On Friday evening, after setting up camp and dining at our home base of Rock Botanizing Bigelow Lakes Creek Ranch, our instructor will introduce us to • Naturalist Certificate • Adults some of his favorite hikes along this section of the Smith River. Saturday, we’ll take an easy Instructor: Linda Vorobik, Ph.D. hike along Stony Creek on the North Fork and Date: Sunday, July 26, 2020 meet up with unusual plants including the bog Location: Meet at SFI, Selma white violet, California butterwort, Del Norte Tuition: $75 ($65 for Crash Course registrants) iris and manzanita, Howell’s fawn lily, serpentine sedge, Del Norte willow and Designed for anyone who inside-out flower. If the creek where we wants to hike and learn botanize is running low enough, Dana will about the native flora. string a rope bridge across so that we can Learn the plants, hear their explore further up the Smith River. discovery stories and On Sunday, students will experience more ecology and the rationale serpentine habitat and associated rare plants behind their nomencla- such as serpentine catchfly and seacoast ture. This field trip ragwort along Little Bald Hills Trail. We’ll hike combines exercise (a this moderately strenuous trail with frequent PHOTO BY LEE WEBB mildly exertive hike from

Dedicated to the enjoyment, conservation, and study of Oregon’s native plants and habitats. annual journal (Kalmiopsis) • occasional papers monthly bulletin • programs • field trips • work parties JOIN US! www.npsoregon.org The chapter tab provides a link to additional chapters.

10 Siskiyou Field Institute • www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org For the Professional the trailhead into the lake area), with observa- This intensive tion and education about native flora of the plant identification Siskiyous. Butterflies and dragonflies will also class will enhance be both highly visible in the meadow and at your field skills. the lake, a bonus for students who enjoy a little We’ll create a entomology along with their botany. practical framework for learning by Those signed up for “Crash Course in Flower- comparing 50 plant ing Plant Families” Monday to Wednesday are families and their encouraged to participate: we will do some traits, study names warm-up keying on the trail. of local trees, shrubs and flowering plants, and learn Crash Course in how to key using Flowering Plant Families the Jepson Manual. Morning labs and PHOTO BY K.M. PYLE slide-illustrated • Naturalist Certificate • Adults lectures will whet the appetite for afternoon botanizing in the field. Some plant keying experience is strongly recommended as a Instructor: Linda Vorobik, Ph.D. building block for this field course. Dates: Monday – Wednesday, July 27-29, 2020 Location: SFI in Selma An optional day-long foray to Bigelow Lakes Tuition: $225 on Sunday, July 26, is available at a reduced tuition for students signed up for this course.

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ore challenging fun — rafting, longer, more strenuous hikes. Check the hiker icons for Mlevel of physical difficulty.

cabins, each sleeps approximately 5 people. Email [email protected] with lodging questions. Watch the 2018 course video at www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org.

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Illinois River Natural History from a Raft

• Naturalist Certificate • Adults, Kids 16+ PHOTO BY FERRON’S FUN TRIPS Instructor: Justin Rohde, M.S. Dates: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 Rogue River Restoration from a Raft: Location: Meet at SFI to carpool to raft Gold Ray Anniversary launching area Tuition: $225 (includes lunch) • Naturalist Certificate • Adults, Kids 16+ Immerse yourself in the ecology of the Wild and Scenic Illinois River on a raft trip through Instructor: Craig Tuss, M.S. dramatic canyons, red rock rain forest and Date: Sunday, June 21, 2020 desert-like serpentine landscapes. Learn to Location: Meet at Touvelle State Park identify many of the plants and animals found Tuition: $165 along this highly diverse portion of the Illinois River, ranked as the Rogue River’s largest and In this year, the 10th anniversary of the Gold most productive tributary in terms of salmon, Ray Dam removal, we’ll immerse ourselves in steelhead and Pacific lamprey. We will explore the Rogue River’s ecology and examine how firsthand what makes this river one of the most removal of two dams and other minor removals diverse areas in Oregon, in addition to natural and subsequent restoration have impacted processes, geology and human influences that the Rogue’s water quality and especially have shaped it. its support of salmonids. Removal and/or modernization of up to 50 Rogue Valley basin Topics covered include geologic formations, dams and river impediments is now a feasible stream ecology, river morphology, endemic 10-year goal thanks to the establishment of plants and biodiversity, human history, past the Open Rivers Fund by the William and Flora disturbance including fires and the potential Hewlett Foundation. Topics we’ll discuss also effects of climate change. include methods of removal and consequent Rafts and guiding provided by ARTA River Trips. sediment loads. Optional lodging at Illinois River Hideway The class will board large rafts at Touvelle State Cabins off Illinois River Rd. Two off-the-grid Park boat launch, then float approximately six

12 541.597.8530 • www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org Adventure Learning miles downstream, stopping to observe and mouth of Bear Creek to learn about restoration discuss river processes. We’ll also pause at the efforts there. Tuition includes the rafting trip.

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Birding Ahjumawi State foot within view of Mount Shasta and Lassen Peak. From the boat launch, we will paddle into Park by Kayak Big Lake and bird as we head toward one of three primitive campgrounds. Kayaks provided • Naturalist Certificate by Eagle Eyes Kayak Guiding Service. • Adults, Kids 16+

Instructors: Kevin Spencer, Dave Haupt Dates: Saturday-Sunday, September 26-27, 2020 Location: Burney, California Tuition: $205 (includes kayak rental), $140 (bring your own kayak) In this field course, we’ll have a unique opportunity to observe fall migration in a wilderness area “where the waters come together...” Located in eastern Shasta County, California, Ahjumawi derives its name from a large system of freshwater springs created by the mingling of Big Lake, Tule River, Ja- She Creek, Lava Creek and Fall River. This wilderness area of lava rock and flowing waters features both sagebush and juniper populations as well as coniferous and oak forests. The park is accessible only by boat. We will hopefully observe residents and fall migrants including Lewis’s and Nutall’s Woodpeckers, Oak Titmice, Short-eared and Northern Pygmy Owls, as well as ducks and possibly Lawrence’s Goldfinch. We may also glimpse other wildlife including mule deer, bear and cougar as we travel by kayak and on 13 SFI Farther Afield

xploring biodiversity in Oregon’s Great Basin, where you’ll discover similarities to the EKlamath-Siskiyous along with some dramatic differences.

Sparrows, Sagebrush Sparrows and other birds of the sagebrush sea before wrapping up the trip at mid day. Non-campers will be provided with lodging options, including cabins or rooms at the Lodge at Summer Lake.

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Basin and Range Birding: Wood River to Summer Lake

• Naturalist Certificate • Adults

PHOTO BY K.M. PYLE Instructors: Kevin Spencer, M.A. and Dave Haupt, B.S. Great Basin Butterflies Dates: Thursday-Sunday, June 18-21, 2020 Location: Meet at Wood River Wetlands for course intro and late afternoon birding. • Naturalist Certificate • Adults Tuition: $210 Instructor: Dana Ross, M.S. This year we’ll visit a variety of southeastern Dates: July 10-13, 2020 Oregon bird habitats emphasizing wetlands. Hot Location: Meet and lodge at Malheur Field springs, forest, rimrock and sagebrush steppe Station, Harney County, OR along the way will provide windows into bird Tuition includes 3 nights shared behavior, especially feeding and breeding. dorm room: $335 Our basin-and-range journey begins at the Commuter tuition: $245 Wood River near Fort Klamath, then we’ll move Extra nights or single bedroom: add $30 east to the Klamath Marsh and set up camp at per night Headquarters Thursday evening. After dinner, From Steens Mountain to the Alvord Desert, we’ll scout for Yellow Rails and listen for owls, from alpine to meadow to sagebrush steppe, possibly including Flammulated. Friday we’ll butterflies and moths abound in this hotspot bird the Refuge, then drive to alkali Summer for Northern Great Basin species. We will base Lake in eastern Lake County, home of the Sum- our studies at Malheur Field Station, where mer Lake Wildlife Refuge, where we will spend we’ll learn both the typical and rare species the afternoon birding and observing Snowy historically seen in southeast Oregon in a Plover breeding areas. Friday evening, we’ll set classroom session and by examining collected up camp in the area, then on Saturday bird the specimens. Then we’ll foray over the weekend Lower Chewaucan River and Fremont Point, and into Monday, exploring desert canyons, where woodpeckers and other forest breeders lakes and roadsides and Steens Mountain predominate. Sunday morning, we’ll drive out streams, canyons, steppe and summit. Findings into the desert and look for Black-throated may include swallowtails, checkerspots, cop-

14 Siskiyou Field Institute • www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org SFI Farther Afield pers, Admirals, fritillaries and blues and whites. the Lava Cast Forest, massive obsidian flows, Watch the 2019 video at hot springs, and hike the Paulina Creek trail www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org. that winds through a forest with magnificent views of a waterfall. We will explore the US Geological Survey’s monitoring of this volcano, travel up Lava Butte, and study the local Native American tribe’s stewardship of the ponderosa pine forests in the area and their relationship to the volcanic landscape, and much more. We will camp as a group in the Caldera area; non-campers can reserve lodging in close-by LaPine, Sun River or Bend.

Alpine Pollinator Ecology in Eastern Oregon

• Naturalist Certificate • Adults

Instructor: August Jackson AERIAL PHOTO BY CHAS ROGERS Dates: August 14-16, 2020 Volcanology of the Newberry Location: Meet and lodge at Malheur Field Station, Harney County, OR Caldera Tuition incl. 2 nights shared dorm room: $270 • Naturalist Certificate • Adults Extra nights or single bedroom: add $30 per night Instructor: Chas Rogers, M.S. Commuter tuition: $210 Dates: Friday-Sunday, July 24-26, 2020 Location: Meet at the Lava Lands Visitor Center The unique off Hwy. 97, just north of LaPine, Oregon mingling of desert Tuition including camping: $220 and alpine plant Commuter tuition: $210 communities makes Steens Mountain a The Newberry Volcano just east of the Cas- hotspot for insect cades began erupting over 600,000 years ago. diversity. In some It is one of the largest volcanoes in Oregon, years, large with lava tubes, cinder cones, obsidian flows, migrations of and two crater lakes filling its caldera, butterflies and dragonflies can be Paulina Lake and East PHOTO BY AUGUST JACKSON Lake. Newberry observed along the Volcano has not summit ridge. We’ll explore Steens Mountain’s erupted in well over varied habitats, identifying pollinators and 1,000 years but this their associated plant species with a particular massive shield focus on regional bee fauna. More than 300 volcano is still species of bees are likely to be found on considered active. In Steens, including more than a dozen bumble our 2 ½ day study of bee species. We’ll spend most of our time volcanology, we will observing insects in the field, with some time PHOTO BY K.M. PYLE explore the geology for lecture and specimen observation at the and landscapes of the vast Newberry Volcanic Malheur Field Station. National Monument in hikes and in car trips. We will visit the longest lava tube in Oregon, 15 Klamath-Siskiyou Forays

atural history explorations for both local citizen scientists and newcomers to the Klamath- NSiskiyous. Siskiyou Seniors field courses set an easy pace with car trips or walks in the field.

Hügelkultur Workshop workshop you will learn how charred biomass (biochar) made from non-merchantable woody residue left from logging and pruning • Naturalist Certificate operations can increase soil productivity, • Adults, Kids 14+ promote beneficial soil microbes, reduce wildfire risk, decrease emissions, and slow Instructor: Lion Waxman climate change. Mechanical engineer Kelpie Date: Sunday, February 23, 2020 Wilson and forest ecologist Ken Carloni will Location: SFI, Selma give an overview of the history and science of Tuition: $70 biochar production and use during classroom Hügelkultur roughly translates from the presentations. In the afternoons, we’ll explore German as “mound culture.” It is a centuries- small to large-scale biochar production theory old permacultural practice in which a mound and practice. On Day 2, we’ll apply that theory constructed from decaying wood debris and in a hands-on demonstration of loading, firing other compostable biomass plant materials and quenching in a variety of kilns for is later, or immediately, planted as a raised producing biochar in the field. bed. In this hands-on workshop we will learn how to design raised beds by implementing this regenerative agriculture practice which enriches poor soils, retains moisture (thus reducing water use), sequesters carbon in the soil, quickly warms soils in spring, and provides a healthy, productive alternative to burning biomass. The first few hours of the workshop will focus on a discussion of soils, soil health and the theory, benefits and design techniques behind hügelkultur. The second half will include hands-on implementation of what we have PHOTO BY K.M. PYLE learned by building a new hügelkultur garden onsite at SFI and sowing a cover crop. Raptors and Waterfowl of the Klamath Basin Biochar Workshop • Naturalist Certificate • Adults, Kids 12+ • Naturalist Certificate • Adults

Instructors: Ken Carloni, Ph.D. and Kelpie Instructor: Bud Widdowson, B.S. Wilson, M.S. Date: Sunday, March 15, 2020 Dates: Saturday-Sunday, March 8-9, 2020 Location: Meet at the Lower Klamath Wildlife Location: SFI, Selma Refuge Visitor Center in Tulelake Tuition: $140 Tuition: $70 For land Watch Golden Eagles in courtship flight, Great managers and Horned Owls sleeping off the previous night’s property owners, hunting activity, flocks of shorebirds on the permaculturists edges of vast Klamath Lake. We might even and organic have a surprising encounter with Sandhill gardeners. Cranes, see a pair of Prairie Falcons dining on During this ground squirrels or an early flock of Mountain PHOTO COURTESY OF KELPIE WILSON two-day Bluebirds. The mighty Klamath Basin teems

16 541.597.8530 • www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org Klamath-Siskiyou Forays with bird life in early spring: we hope to glimpse eagles, hawks, owls, shorebirds and other migrants as they forage and start to exhibit breeding behaviors. We’ll focus on field identification and natural history during car trip birding in the Lower Klamath Lake area, the petroglyphs at Lava Beds and a possible drive into the Butte Valley in search of raptors. We’ll make frequent stops for field observation. Watch the 2019 video at www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org.

PHOTO BY K.M. PYLE The Healing Forest Siskiyou Seniors

• Naturalist Certificate • Adults, Kids 16+ ART BY DOROTA HABER-LEHIGH. Instructors: Nancy Winslow Foster, M.S. and Forest Fragments: Drawing Native Erin McKinsey, M.S. Plants in an Ethnobotanical Date: Saturday, April 4, 2020 Sketchbook Location: SFI in Selma, OR Tuition: $70 • Naturalist Certificate • Adults Medical research has revealed beneficial immunity-boosting effects of forest walking Instructor: Dorota Haber-Lehigh, M.A. including inhalation of Mycobacterium from Dates: Saturday-Sunday, March 21-22, 2020 the soil and phytonicides from tree bark Location: SFI in Selma, OR compounds. We’ll explore the natural history Tuition: $140 of our relationship to nature as we explore the Explore creative ways to draw and learn SFI forest and meditate as we walk. Our guided about native forest plants. Connect with walk will be based on the practice of Shinrin- nature through careful observation and study. Yoku, roughly translated as “forest bathing.” This workshop will combine techniques for Our intention is to engage all our senses in the designing and drawing in an ethnobotanical present moment while we absorb the forest’s sketchbook: learn about our local native plants beauty. A trailside tea ceremony will complete and how indigenous peoples utilized them. the morning. After lunch, we’ll spend time We’ll begin with loose, meditative sketching in the SFI kitchen learning to make healing exercises, then practice creating a personal tinctures from tree bark. sketchbook page that blends sketches, ethnobotanical notes and reflections. Finally, we will create a finished portrait of a selected plant using colored pencils on walnut ink- stained paper. 17

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PHOTO BY MARTY GILES Estuarine Ecology at the Mouth

of the Coquille River PHOTO BY K.M. PYLE

• Naturalist Certificate Spring Mushroom Forays • Adults, Kids 16+ • Naturalist Certificate • Adults Instructors: Marty Giles and Joe Metzler Instructor: Mike Potts Date: Friday-Sunday, April 24-26, 2020 Dates and Locations: Location: Bandon, OR (meeting place to be • At Pacifica in Williams: Sunday, April 19, 2020 announced) • At SFI in Selma: Saturday, May 9 Tuition: $175 Tuition: $70 The edge where land meets sea is always Learn all about spring-fruiting fungi: the dynamic and interesting—add a river and edible, nonedible and toxic. This course the excitement notches up! From estuarine provides the basics on local species along wetlands to grassy dunes to rocky shore—and with expert field guidance and identification more—the Mouth of the Coquille River offers a from our instructor. In a brief classroom stunning variety of natural habitats to discover. introduction, he’ll share visuals, recommend In this light-walking weekend, we’ll wander some field guides, and tell us about rare through the Spit, as well as up-river a bit—we’ll species he has encountered in the field. He’ll even visit nearby rocky intertidal areas and also talk about spore prints as a method of sandy beaches. Our exploration will include identifying mushrooms. We’ll then carpool to visiting several Oregon State Parks and two field sites for the afternoon. National Wildlife Refuges. Along the way we’ll learn about the natural systems here, including the geology, botany, birds and other wildlife, and a bit of human history.

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PHOTO BY K.M. PYLE PHOTO BY K.M. PYLE Birding Del Norte Bootstrap Botany and Photography on 8 Dollar Mountain • Naturalist Certificate • Adults Instructor: Ken Burton or Romain Cooper • Naturalist Certificate • Adults Dates: Saturday-Sunday, May 9-10, 2020 Instructor: Ken Carloni, Ph.D. Location: Crescent City, Smith River and Dates: Saturday - Sunday May 16-17, 2020 Redwood National and State Parks Location: SFI in Selma, OR Tuition: $140 Tuition: $140 Join us for a weekend exploring various bird You’ll wear out your $8 boots while exploring habitats of Del Norte County, California, an 8 Dollar Mountain’s spectacular outburst area that’s rich in bird diversity: this small of spring bloom in this class designed for county has a bird list of over 420. We’ll wildflower enthusiasts with little experience spend one day on the coastal plain and in plant i.d. The fens, rock outcroppings, shoreline searching for species such as Black seeps and wet meadows host an exceptional Oystercatcher, Tufted Puffin, Marbled Murrelet, diversity of plants that specialize in surviving Rhinoceros Auklet, and Pigeon Guillemot. metal-heavy, nutrient-poor serpentine soils. We’ll spend the other at inland sites, In the classroom you’ll learn basic plant observing how the avifauna changes with terminology, practice keying common species, increasing elevation and seeking out and see collected local specimens in the Pacific Wren, Varied Thrush, Sooty Grouse, herbarium created by Keir Morse. Ken will also Mountain Quail, Townsend’s Solitaire, White- demonstrate wildflower photography using headed Woodpecker, Dusky and Hammond’s smart phones and accessories. Then we’ll visit Flycatchers, Green-tailed Towhee, and others. and key out early-blooming plants on SFI land At this time of year, almost anything’s possible and 8 Dollar Mountain, including cobra lilies, and we could easily surpass 150 species. The mariposa lilies, shooting stars, late fawn lilies, exact itinerary will remain flexible in response Waldo rockcress, saxifrage, paintbrush and to conditions and rare-bird reports. maybe even fritillaria.

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Coastal Ecology Weekend (Dune and Seaweed Ecology) • Naturalist Certificate • Adults, Kids 14 Instructor: Marty Giles Dates: Saturday-Sunday, June 6-7, 2020 Location: Meet in Charleston, OR Tuition: $140 Seaweed Ecology or Dune Ecology separate registration: $70

PHOTO BY K.M. PYLE Discover the ever-changing processes of the dunes formation and changes while Edible and Medicinal Plants at Pacifica you experience the vibrant high drama of the Oregon Dunes (permitted by • Naturalist Certificate the ODNRA, Siuslaw National Forest, USFS). We • Adults, Kids 16+ will travel by van from a central meeting point to our two hike locations. This easy day reveals Instructors: Erin McKinsey and Lauren Kemple the whole range of dune environments, from Date: Sunday, May 17, 2020 beach to forest. We’ll spend most of the day in Location: Pacifica, Williams, OR one of the non-vehicle sections of the Oregon Tuition: $85 (includes materials fee) Dunes visiting its wild and natural side. Along the way, students learn about the physics of This year we shift our wildcrafting workshop to sand as well as the diverse plant and animal Pacifica where you’ll have the opportunity to communities and the challenges of sand-living. expand your foraging skills to include edible Total hiking mileage for both locations: 2.5 and medicinal plants surrounding you. In this miles with some hiking up to a high dune but class, we’ll study traditional ethnobotanical mostly flat sand walking. lore and current trends and research regarding useful plants. You’ll learn both how to identify On Sunday morning, we’ll visit a local common local ones and how to sustainably Charleston beach at low tide to gather and harvest them. You’ll also learn some basic examine some easily accessible seaweeds medicine-making techniques, trying your own from the intertidal zone. Then we’ll learn hand at making tinctures. In addition, we’ll also to identify what we’ve collected by species enjoy making wild weed pesto. You’ll leave the and further explore seaweed roles in the class with the start of an edible and medicinal marine ecosystem. Back on dry land, we’ll plant journal. discuss ethnobotanical uses and cooking with regional wild seaweeds and will try our hand at using seaweed in fun and creative art. Students will need to be mobile on wet, seaweed- covered rocks on shore for this excursion.

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Can you tell a fir from a pine? An ash from a maple? Tree blindness, especially conifer confusion, is a common malady. This course will cure you. There are numerous examples of native Oregon trees, including some very old and large PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER COUSINS conifers at Riverside Reptiles and Amphibians Park in Grants Pass. PHOTO BY CHERYL MCCOY You will learn how to of the Klamath-Siskiyou Area use all of your senses to identify trees by their bark, leaves, flowers and seeds plus interesting • Naturalist Certificate stories about their history and uses. The park • Adults, Kids 12+ offers easy parking, plenty of benches and clean restrooms. Bring an afternoon snack and Instructor: Tiffany Sacra Garcia, Ph.D. water. Appropriate for families with young Dates: Saturday, June 6, 2020 children as well as older adults, although Location: SFI in Selma, Oregon walking on uneven ground may be involved. Tuition: $70 Trees to Know in Oregon by Ed Jensen will be used as a field guide. It is available at OSU This course will overview the diversity of Extension Offices. amphibians and reptiles in the Klamath- Siskiyou area. A short lecture and discussion will cover evolutionarily unique species in our A Single-Day Natural History region and the need for broad conservation Tour of the Oregon Caves strategies to protect these organisms and their habitats. We’ll spend the afternoon in the • Naturalist Certificate • Adults field, exploring river, pond, and terrestrial sites where amphibian and reptile species reside. Instructor: John Roth Date: Saturday, June 13, 2020 Location: Meet at the Oregon Caves National Meet the Trees Monument Siskiyou Seniors Tuition: $70 Local scholarships available. In just one day we will stroll inside the • Naturalist Certificate Oregon Caves, view roadcuts revealing geological secrets, and hike to a large • Adults, Kids 12+ waterfall spilling from a river eligible for Wild Instructor: Rachel Winters, B.S. and Scenic status – all within one National Date: Sunday, June 7, 2020 Monument. We’ll explore the cliffs, creeks, Location: Riverside Park, Grants Pass, Oregon and caves here and meet the Monument’s Tuition: $35 cast of colorful creatures, including cave- dwelling invertebrates, meadow butterflies

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21 Klamath-Siskiyou Forays and wildflowers, birds, and possibly some Geology and Ecology of the amphibians and reptiles. Our visit will also include a trip to a compacted and crushed Rogue-Umpqua Scenic Byway reef over a blob of once-molten rock that fused seafloors together, and evidence of past • Naturalist Certificate • Adults climates and evolutionary refuges. Instructors: Ken Carloni and Larry Broeker Dates: M-W, June 29-July 1, 2020 Location: Meet at the Upper Table Rock Trailhead; class will end at Colliding Waters in Glide. Tuition including camping: $225 Commuter tuition: $210 Discover the interplay between botany and geology as we explore the Rogue-Umpqua Scenic Byway with geologist Larry Broeker and botanist/ecologist Ken Carloni. This 3-day, 2-night caravan tour starts Monday 6/29 at the Central Point Library with stops at Upper Table Rock, Avenue of the Boulders, Natural Bridge and the Rogue Gorge. We will camp along the Rogue River and spend day 2 in a loop around Crater Lake including Castle Crest, Sun Notch, the Pinnacles, Pumice Castle and the Watchman, returning to our camp Tuesday ART BY MARY PAETZEL evening. Day 3 will take us to Diamond Lake and on to four spectacular North Umpqua Mud Springs and Flattop: Mary waterfalls including Watson Falls, Oregon’s Paetzel’s Butterfly Bog third highest.

• Naturalist Certificate • Adults Instructor: Lee Webb, M.S. Birds, Blooms and Bumbles Date: Saturday, June 27, 2020 on Mt. Ashland Location: Meet at SFI in Selma, OR • Naturalist Certificate Tuition: $70; Local scholarships available. • Adults, Kids 16+ In honor of the late Siskiyou naturalist Mary Paetzel’s 100th birthday, we’ll visit one of the Instructors: Frank Lospalluto and Kristi locations she loved the most, a Darlingtonia Mergenthaler fen at Mud Springs. Here, Mary discovered Date: Sunday, July 19, 2020 the Siskiyou subspecies of the Mariposa Location: Ashland, OR (meeting place TBA) copper butterfly that now bears her name. Tuition: $70 We’ll explore and botanize the Mud Springs– We’ll spend a Flattop area with Lee Webb, talk about Mary’s few hours observations of the natural world in the birding the Siskiyous and read from some of her works. beautiful montane and subalpine chaparral, forests and meadows on Mt. Ashland and will likely see Green-

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Woodpecker and Cassin’s Finch. Then the class will catch bumble bees and learn about pollination ecology, followed by meeting rare and endemic flowers (Mt. Ashland lupine and Henderson’s horkelia) as well as more common – but just as beautiful – native plants in bloom.

PHOTO BY K.M. PYLE Wildflowers of Crater Lake: PHOTO BY K.M. PYLE Botany and Photography Dragonflies of Siskiyou County • Naturalist Certificate • Adults • Naturalist Certificate Instructor: Ken Carloni, Ph.D. • Adults, Kids 12+ Dates: Tuesday-Wednesday, July 21-22, 2020 Location: Meet at Crater Lake, South Visitor Instructors: Dave and Kathy Biggs Center Dates: Friday-Sunday, July 24-26, 2020 Tuition: $140 Location: Meet in Stewart Springs, CA Experience the dazzling diversity of Crater Tuition: $235 (includes 2 nights lodging at Lake National Park flora during peak bloom Flowering Waters Retreat Center) in forests to peaks to pumice desert. Besides Commuter tuition: $175 visiting Rim Road locations, we’ll also spend Fens, lakes and creeks are home to a diversity time botanizing wildflowers on the Park’s of gorgeous dragonflies. Species we’ll likely lesser known trails, in a variety of habitats. see on this weekend include the Petaltail, We’ll use 101 Wildflowers of Crater Lake Clubtails, and Cruiser. We’ll start by searching National Park as our guide. Along with for dragonflies in and near Parks Creek on observing and identifying wildflowers, we will the Flowing Waters land. On Saturday, we’ll also discuss techniques and accessories for explore dragonfly habitat in and near Yreka photographing wildflowers using a variety of after a morning introduction to dragonfly cameras from SLR to smartphone. biology, life cycles and identification. Sunday’s Group discount lodging is available at The half day session will focus on Gumboot Lake. Aspen Inn in Fort Klamath. Campsites and Our headquarters is a serene retreat center cabins are also available at other Fort Klamath near the Mt. Eddy road. We’ll be lodged in locations. Namaste House, which accommodates 13 Watch the 2019 course video at people in double- and triple- bed rooms and www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org. queen-sized beds for couples. Flowing Waters also features a deck overlooking the creek, a refreshing swimming hole and many rare plants on the land.

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identify local flowers by common and scientific names as they hike and become familiar with botanical nomenclature. During our trip to Edward Stuhl’s painting cabin, we’ll also learn some of the medicinal uses, ecology, propagation, restoration and symbiotic relationships of native PHOTO BY K.M. PYLE plants, and our guide will provide general Geology of the Mount Shasta Area information about backcountry stewardship, • Naturalist Certificate • Adults local history, and bird identification. Instructor: Bill Hirt, Ph.D. Watch the 2018 course video at Dates: Thursday-Saturday, August 6-8, 2020 www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org. Location: Mount Shasta, CA Tuition: $255 (includes 3 nights shared dorm room); $210 commuter tuition Serpentine Geology Mount Shasta is one of the largest of the High of the Klamath-Siskiyous Cascade stratovolcanoes and has an eruptive history that spans the past 700,000 years. Two • Naturalist Certificate • Adults of the peak’s five major cones have grown Instructor: John Roth, M.S. since Pleistocene glaciers retreated from the Date: Saturday, September 19, 2020 mountain about 11,400 years ago, however, Location: Meet at SFI in Selma and the potential for future eruptive and debris Tuition: $70 flow events remains high. Although basement rocks are poorly exposed on and around With its ultramafic the mountain, scattered outcrops and the rock uplifted from chemistry of some flank lavas suggest it stands dense seafloors, atop serpentinite and marine sedimentary rare mineral and volcanic rocks of the Eastern Klamath composition and terrane. This course will introduce the tectonic unique landscapes, setting, eruptive history, and potential hazards the Klamath- of Mount Shasta as well as briefly exploring Siskiyou Mountain the ancient basement rocks that may underlie range could be it and influence the chemistry of some of its viewed as a lavas. half-billion year-old geostar. Inexpensive dorm lodging is available at PHOTO BY K.M. PYLE This workshop will College of the Siskiyous in Weed. Call SFI at examine and 541-597-8530 for details. illustrate why the Klamath-Siskiyous are so globally distinctive. Their knotted complexity is The Art of Mount Shasta Wildflowers legendary: older rock slathered over younger: post-Jurassic rocks overlaid on Siletzia terrane. • Naturalist Certificate • Adults They have undergone monumental shifts: crustal-scale crashes, uplifts and rifts — Instructor: Rebeca Franco everything but a crash between the continents. Date: Sunday, August 9, 2020 Our class will begin with an overview of how Location: Meet at Mt. Shasta Public Library these mountains evolved, with geologic maps Tuition: $70 for reference. Then we’ll foray through the Join us for a botanical exploration on the Illinois Valley and along the Smith River Canyon, spring-fed slopes of Mount Shasta, rich stopping to study significant rock formations with summer flowers. Using the paintings along the way. We’ll end our serpentine journey of Edward Stuhl and the field guide Mount at the beach in Crescent City. Shasta Wildflowers, students will learn to

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Tree Stories intro, discover key characteristics of Siskiyou Seniors typical species and acquire skill • Naturalist Certificate • Adults in differentiating the poisonous and Instructor: Rachel Winters, B.S. inedible from the Date: Saturday, September 12, 2020 edible types. Location: Limpy Creek trailhead. Meet at Rogue We’ll also discuss Community College. cooking Tuition: $35 techniques and We’ll take a slow walk on the one-mile Limpey share recipes. The Creek Botanical Trail loop and talk about tree PHOTO BY K.M. PYLE class will then magic and tree medicine as well as other uses carpool to a field both by early people and today, and the part site and search and identify fungi commonly each tree plays in the plant community. There found in local forests. are benches along the way for resting.

Oak Ecology and Acorn Ethnobotany • Naturalist Certificate • Adults Instructor: Jolie Elan, M.S. Date: Saturday, October 17, 2020 Location: SFI, Selma Tuition: $85 (includes $15 materials fee). Local scholarships available. Explore the connection between oaks, humans and the nourishing web of life in a presentation, field PHOTO BY K.M. PYLE trip and acorn processing Exploring the World of Fungi workshop. Learn how to • Naturalist Certificate • Adults identify local oaks and how oaks have Instructor: Scot Loring, M.S. PHOTO FROM SFI ARCHIVES been woven into Dates: Friday - Sunday, November 20-22, 2020 world mythologies Location: SFI, Selma, OR and cultures. Join ecologist Jolie Elan in an Tuition: $175 ethnobotanical journey visiting oaks on SFI land. In the afternoon, we’ll move to the This workshop is intended for amateur kitchen to learn hands-on how to handcraft mycologists as well as professional botanists acorn flour and then taste yummy acorn cakes. who do survey work and want to brush up on fungi, especially local rare species. The Klamath-Siskiyou region is known for its Edible Mushrooms of the Fall high biodiversity. Fungi are no exception. Come search for and learn to identify edible, • Naturalist Certificate • Adults poisonous and other mushrooms above Instructor: Mike Potts the ground and truffles below. In a variety Dates and Locations: of Siskiyou locations in Josephine and Del • Southern Cascades out of Ashland: Sunday, Norte counties, we’ll learn about fungal Oct. 18, 2020 connections to the mycorrhizal network and • Siskiyous Foray @ SFI: Saturday, Nov. 14 particular habitats and trees with which they’re Tuition: $70 associated. Time will be split between field and classroom/lab activities. Learn how to safely identify, collect and then eat local mushrooms! In a classroom 25 SFI Members & Volunteers

SFI Loves its Volunteers! Just a few hours with a paint brush, weed wacker, shovel or computer can make a huge difference to us. We are always in need of weeders, trail clearers, blackberry routers, carpenters and fence menders. Our spring and fall fundraisers are also a great opportunity to pitch in and have fun. You’ll have the opportunity to meet fellow naturalists while engaged in SFI work parties. Another way to volunteer, with a huge benefit: Train as an SFI host and receive free tuition in exchange. All that’s required is an hour- PHOTO BY KATHY MECHLING long training session at SFI before the season begins. Email [email protected] for details.

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Winter and Spring 2020: “Paths to Scientific Knowledge”

Most programs take place at Siskiyou Field Institute, 1241 Illinois River Road in Selma unless otherwise announced. Free admission to the public and free refreshments.

Saturday, January 25, 3:00 p.m. Friday, March 27, 6:30 p.m. Exploring the Wild Watershed Uncovering geological time bombs Migrate, adapt or die: Movie launching “Earthquakes, Floods and Drought - oh, my! What SFI’s SnowSchool on Mt. Ashland regional lake sediments can tell us about hazards A showing of Snowbound: Animals in the Klamath Mountains.” in Winter, a PBS Nature film hosted Presented by Ann Morey Ross, researcher and Ph.D. by wildlife photographer Gordon candidate at Oregon State University Buchanan. April and May programs to be announced Saturday, February 8, 3:00 p.m. Darwin Day celebration Friday, June 26, 6:30 p.m. “Friends of the Enemies of Your Enemies Personal Observation Are Your Friends: Spirit of the Siskiyous: A Birthday Party for Mary the Tangled Ecological Web of Paetzel. We’ll celebrate what would have been Mycotrophic Orchids in Northwest Mary’s 100th birthday with a program presented Forests.” by Lee Webb on Mary’s amazing experiences as a Presented by Ken Carloni, Ph.D. Siskiyou naturalist.

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FEBRUARY May 9 ��Spring Mushroom Foray in the Siskiyous February 8 ��Free Learning Program: May 16-17 ��Bootstrap Botany on 8 Dollar Darwin Day Celebration: Mountain “Friends of the Enemies May 24-26 ��Botanizing the North Fork of of Your Enemies Are Your the Smith River Friends” February 23 ��Hügelkultur Workshop JUNE June 4-5 ��Learn to Love Those Latin MARCH Names March 8-9 ��BioChar Workshop June 6 ��Reptiles and Amphibians of March 15 ��Raptors and Waterfowl of the the Siskiyou Region Klamath Basin June 6-7 ��Coastal Ecology Weekend March 21-22 ��Forest Fragments June 7 ��Meet the Trees March 27 ��Free Learning Program: June 13 ��Single-Day Natural History Uncovering geological time Tour of the Oregon Caves bombs June 12-16 ��Backpacking Basics Residential Camp & Excursion APRIL June 18-21 ��Birding Basin and Range: April 4 ��The Healing Forest Wood River to Summer Lake April 21-23 ��Intermediate Lichens June 21 ��Rogue River Natural History April 24-26 ��Estuarine Ecology at the and Restoration from a Raft Mouth of the Coquille River June 22-24 ��Rogue River Rafting Excursion April 19 ��Spring Mushroom Foray at June 26 ��Free Learning Program: Pacifica Gardens Spirit of the Siskiyous: Mary Paetzel’s 100th Birthday MAY Celebration May 1-3 ��Sketch Your Way to Better June 27 ��Mud Springs and FlatTop: Botany Mary Paetzel’s Butterfly Bog May 6 ��Illinois Natural History from a June 29 - July 1 ��Geology and Ecology of Raft the Rogue-Umpqua Scenic Highway May 9-10 ��Birding Del Norte June 30 - July 2 ��Wilderness & Wellness Camp

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JULY August 10-14 ��Space Science Residential Camp July 10-13 ��Great Basin Butterflies August 14-16 ��Alpine Pollinator Ecology in July 13-17 ��Nature Connections Day Eastern Oregon Camp August 18-20 ��Rogue River Rafting Excursion July 19 ��Birds, Blooms and Bumbles August 17-24 ��Theater in the Trees on Mt. Ashland Residential Camp July 20-24 ��Bushcraft and Survival Skills Camp SEPTEMBER July 21-22 ��Crater Lake Wildflowers: Botany and Photography Sept. 12 ��Tree Stories July 21-23 ��Youth Rogue River Rafting Sept. 19 ��Serpentine Geology Excursion Sept. 26-27 �� Birding Ahjumawi Lava July 24-26 ��Volcanology of the Newberry Springs Caldera July 24-26 ��Dragonflies of Siskiyou OCTOBER County October 17 ��Oak Ecology and Acorn July 26 ��Botanizing Bigelow Lakes Ethnobotany July 27-29 ��Crash Course in Flowering October 18 ��Edible Mushrooms of the Plant Families Southern Cascades July 27-31 ��Junior Explorer Day Camp NOVEMBER AUGUST Nov. 14 ��Edible Mushrooms of the August 6-8 ��Geology of the Mount Shasta Siskiyous Area Nov. 20-22 ��Exploring the World of Fungi August 9 ��The Art of Mount Shasta Wildflowers

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29 Instructor Bios

Kathy and Dave Biggs enjoy giving working with UNESCO, earning a B.S. in Environmental programs and workshops about Planning & Management at UC Davis, working with the dragonflies and wildlife ponds Youth Conservation Corps as an environmental throughout the West. Kathy authored educator, guiding trips for Wilderness Ventures and several dragonfly guides, an the Lane County Juvenile Department. Most recently educational dragonfly coloring book she became a forest therapy guide through the and eBooks on dragonfly Association of Nature and Forest Therapy and training identification and pond building. with the organizations’ founder, Amos Clifford. Nancy Dave is class co-leader, tech support and believes that forest bathing is a gentle and profound photographer. step toward renewing both our physical and emotional well -being while deepening our Ken Carloni, Ph.D. received his M.S. connection to our periled planet. in Evolutionary Ecology from the University of Connecticut focusing on Tiffany Sacra Garcia, PhD., is an pollination ecology and his Ph.D. in associate professor in the Forest Ecology at Oregon State Department of Fisheries and Wildlife University where he investigated the at Oregon State University studying use of landscape fire by local the stress impact on amphibians in indigenous people as a natural seasonal streams and ponds. Her resource management tool, and on the change in research quantifies behavioral, forest patterns and processes resulting from Euro- physiological and community American recolonization. He has volunteered for many responses to biotic and abiotic stressors, including years at the glide Wildflower Show and has been pharmaceutical contamination, invasive species, water involved with local Douglas County resource quality and climate change variables. conservation work for decades. He recently retired Marty Giles, M.S., began interpreting from chairing the Science Department at Umpqua the Oregon Coast’s natural resources Community College where he taught field botany, nearly fifty years ago and has worked forest biology, historical ecology, microbiology and in many aspects of communicating genetics for 30 years. about nature – from interpretative Jolie Elan, M.S., is an ecologist, programs to teaching and ethnobotanist, and educator. She has supervising, including several years helped thousands of people bond as South Slough National Estuarine with our intelligent and sacred Earth. Reserve’s education director. She earned a B.A. in Jolie teaches widely for conservation natural science and an M.S. in recreation/leisure with organizations, field institutes, herbal an emphasis on interpretation. Marty owns and medicine programs, and schools - operates Wavecrest Discoveries, a nature-oriented from University to elementary levels. guiding service on the southern Oregon coast. She Jolie has worked on countless environmental also writes a nature column for The World newspaper campaigns including restoring sacred forest groves in and does contract writing and editing as SharpPoint India and developing the sustainable herbal medicine Writing & Editing Services. She participates in many sector in Kosovo. She is also a certified spiritual groups related to natural resource management, director and mentors people wishing to deepen their cultural resources and community. She lives with her relationship with nature and spirit. She is the family in Coos Bay. founding director of Go Wild Institute. You can learn Dorota Haber-Lehigh, M.A., is an more about her live and online offerings at www. artist, educator and a naturalist with gowildinstitute.org. Jolie considers oak trees her a passion for native plants. Dorota greatest teachers. loves field sketching, mushroom Nancy Winslow Foster, B.S., resides hunting, botanical drawing and in the East Bay area of northern learning about ethnobotany. She California, where she is active in holds degrees in Art and environmental education. As a child, International Studies (focus on she spent hours in rural Maine indigenous cultures) and a Master’s degree in exploring lakes, woods and ocean Teaching. She is currently working on a diploma in beaches. In high school, she spent Botanical Illustration from Society of Botanical Artists time in the Santa Cruz mountains as a in London. She is a member of Oregon Botanical camp counselor helping kids enjoy banana slugs, Artists and American Society of Botanical Artists. She night skies and songs around the campfire. Her enjoys teaching nature and botanical drawing, natural passion for environmental concerns guided her to science illustration and ethnobotany. Dorota has

30 Siskiyou Field Institute • www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org Instructor Bios self-published two ethnobotanical coloring books: Frank Lospalluto is a field biologist ABC of Native Plants and Native Berries of the Pacific who has worked closely with Northwest. Klamath Bird Observatory over 10 Dave Haupt, B.S., has been active in years doing both spring breeding and the birding community since 1989, fall migration bird surveys primarily on the West Coast in throughout the bioregion. American California and Oregon. His Dippers in Ashland Creek are a experience extends from southern special research focus. Frank is an California projects with the Bell’s avid birder and photographer who also has a keen Vireo and Least Tern, to a year with interest in regional plants and mammals. the Forest Service trapping and Erin McKinsey, M.S. is a dispensary tracking Pileated Woodpeckers. He has lived and herbalist at a natural healing center birded in southern Oregon for the past 15 years. Dave and has worked as a scientist at a teaches biology and art in the Klamath Falls area. natural product research laboratory. Bill Hirt, PhD., grew up in southern She has a background in California and earned his degrees in environmental education and a geology from UCLA and UC Santa passion for plants. Barbara. He served as the geology instructor at College of the Siskiyous Kristi Mergenthaler has conducted in Weed, California from 1991 plant surveys in the Klamath Siskiyou through 2018, teaching both general Bioregion for several years and works geology courses as well as several as Southern Oregon Land short courses on regional geology in the Klamath Conservancy’s Stewardship Director. Mountains and southern Cascades. A former SFI board member, Kristi also assists with Oregon State August Jackson works as University Extension’s Master Interpretation Coordinator at Mount Naturalist training in the local ecoregion and has Pisgah Arboretum in Eugene, OR. served as president of the Siskiyou Chapter of the August has been studying and Native Plant Society of Oregon. Her accreditations photographing the region’s include Wilderness First Responder and certified pollinating insect fauna for six years. Northwest Lichenologist. He is excited about sharing his passion for insects and teaches Joe Metzler is an amateur naturalist classes on pollination ecology and bee identification with over 45 years of outdoor throughout the state. He is currently also working experience. Retired in the Coos Bay with the Oregon Bee Project to help train volunteers area after 23 years with the United in bee identification. States Coast Guard, Metzler now works winters for Oregon Lauren Kemple studied for two years Department of Fish and Wildlife at the Vitalist School of Herbology in conducting coho salmon spawning Ashland, Oregon. She is a mother, surveys, and works summers for USDA Wildlife plant lover, and has been an outdoor Services protecting nesting western snowy plovers. educator since 2001. He is the vice president of the Cape Arago Audubon Society and is active in local watershed stewardship. Mike Potts is a local amateur mycologist who has studied fungi Scot Loring, M.S., has worked as a and their habitats in southern Oregon biologist for a variety of Pacific since 2007. He is an expert in field Northwest entities primarily as a identification and has passionately consultant for the federal devoted his time to mushroom government. He has inventoried photography. His photos can be many thousands of acres, discovered found in the Audubon Mushroom new species, new genera, and Field Guide I-Phone app and on his website. Mike has documented numerous other rare been helping with mushroom identification and and interesting species within the Klamath-Siskiyou leading hikes in the Ashland area. bioregion. He also studies truffles at the USFS Forestry Sciences Laboratory (Corvallis) and is currently coauthoring the upcoming book Rare Truffles of Oregon. 31 Instructor Bios

Chas Rogers, M.S., is a geologist and Kevin Spencer, M.S., has been birding professor at the Rogue Community for more than 35 years, seen/heard College where a yearlong course in more than 300 species in Klamath geology culminating in “The Geology County, and has led numerous trips in of Oregon” is offered. With an M.S. in the area over the years. He says that geology from the University of Rocky Point in June is unbeatable Oregon, Chas has studied volcanic anywhere in the region for diversity rocks and the Cascade Mountains for over 20 years. of species. He still currently does Breeding Bird Surveys, Point Counts, and other Justin Rohde, M.S., has ten years of surveys, relying on both sight and sounds of birds for experience conducting habitat detection. assessments of fish habitat in southwest Oregon for the Siskiyou Lichens have delighted Daphne Research Group. His surveys have led Stone, Ph.D., since childhood. She him to explore some of the wildest studied ecology at The Evergreen and most remote streams in Oregon, State College and received her including tributaries of the Wild & doctorate in lichen ecology at the Scenic Illinois, Chetco, and North Fork Smith rivers. In University of Oregon in 1986, 2014, he published his first guide book on the Illinois studying the succession of epiphytes Valley entitled Hiking Oregon & California’s Wild on oak twigs. She has since worked as Rivers Country by Backcountry Press. Justin recently a contractor surveying public lands for lichens and completed his master’s degree in archaeology and is bryophytes. She enthusiastically shares her lichens currently employed as an Archaeological Technician knowledge with others. for Northwind (Alaska Native Corporation). Craig Tuss retired in 2009 after 32 Dana Ross, M.S., entomologist, years working for the U.S. Fish and specializes in butterflies and moths. Wildlife Service. He currently serves He has studied Oregon insects for as Project Manager for the Natural over 30 years and currently works in Resource Department of the Rogue rare butterfly conservation and Valley Council of Governments, documents insects at important sites. where his main duties include serving as lead for a five-year monitoring effort related to the removal of Gold Ray Dam and lead for John Roth completed his master’s the restoration of the Gold Ray Dam impoundment thesis on the speleogenesis of Jewel area. Cave in South Dakota. He has worked Linda Ann Vorobik, Ph.D., is a in the cave sciences in park caves for botanist, editor and illustrator of more than 35 years, over 31 of them numerous botanical publications, at Oregon Caves, and has compiled holds a PhD from the University of one of the largest databases on cave Oregon. She conducts field research species north of Mexico. and teaches in the Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon. Linda has over 25 years of illustration and college teaching experience and served as the Jepson Manual principal illustrator.

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32 541.597.8530 • www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org Instructor Bios

William “Bud” Widdowson, B.S., is a Kelpie Wilson is an engineer and Senior Wildlife Biologist with ICFI analyst with 35 years of experience International, an environment in renewable energy, sustainable consulting firm. When based in forestry and resource conservation. Arcata, he taught birding classes for She worked for the Siskiyou Regional SFI. Bud resides outside Redding, Education Project for 12 years, California, with his wife, botanist serving as its executive director Margaret Widdowson. during the 1990s. As director of the Siskiyou Project, she helped found the Siskiyou Field Lion Waxman is a consultant and Institute and secure its initial funding. Since 2008 she educator specializing in regenerative has focused on biochar. From 2008-2012 she was agriculture, permaculture, and employed by the International Biochar Initiative and sustainable gardening practices. was responsible for managing a multi-stakeholder Through his business, Good Earth process to draft the first international standards and Gardens, he seeks to support people, testing guidelines for biochar materials. She has farms and communities on their path consulted with private industry and government towards a resilient lifestyle. agencies through her company Wilson Biochar Ann Willyard earned a Ph.D. in Associates. She is a founder and board member of the botany from Oregon State University, US Biochar Initiative. She presents many classes and an M.S. From Chico State University workshops on biochar production and use every year. and a B.A. from UC Santa Cruz. She Dana York, M.S., has worked for the taught botany and plant systematics US Forest Service, Umpqua Ranger courses and curated the herbarium at District, and Death Valley National Hendrix College in Arkansas. Her Park as a botanist. He has conducted research focuses on the evolutionary relationships botanical surveys throughout among populations of plants, especially the California and Oregon on both public ponderosa pines of the U.S. and Mexico. and private lands. Dana co-described Rachel Winters, a self-confessed two eriogonum species with the late plant addict, has been teaching plant Dr. James Reveal, as well as discovering other new identification, ecology, and plants in the Sierras and Death Valley. He currently horticulture at Rogue Community works in Eureka, California, for Caltrans as an College for a number of years. She Environmental Unit Supervisor and is the author of An owns Siskiyou Gardens, a small Illustrated Flora of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National nursery specializing in bonsai and Parks published by Backcountry Press and the unusual trees. Previously she operated a local upcoming Flora of the Pacific Crest Trail(Timber Press). landscape maintenance and design business. Rachel developed an interpretive nature trail at Fish Hatchery Park near Grants Pass as well as being on the team that created the arboretum walk and brochure at RCC’s Redwood Campus. Rachel is a long-time hand weaver and creates her own fiber dyes from a variety of local lichens.

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33 The Fine Print: Registrations, Reservations and Cancellations

For our guests’ safety and comfort, SFI indoor 541-597-8530 or use the registration form on lodging, facilities and yurts remain pet-free this catalog’s back cover. and smoke-free. Please inquire about camping with pets. Thank you for your cooperation. We accept checks, Visa, Mastercard or cash for course and lodging payments. Field Course Registration: We encourage you to register for classes at least two weeks in After you register: About one month prior advance to ensure space will be available and to your class date, you’ll receive an emailed that we can meet minimum course enrollment. letter outlining the course schedule, itinerary, Please note our cancellation policies below. necessary supplies, and appropriate clothing You can find updates on sold-out and cancelled and gear. You will also find the letter as a pdf courses at file online under the course description. www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org. Sold-out classes have waiting lists; please call 541-597- Note age levels: Besides programs offered 8530 to add your name. through Youth Education, SFI also welcomes young people in many of our regular field How to register: You have several options for courses. Please check course descriptions for enrolling in an SFI field course. Register online appropriate age levels. at www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org, call us at

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30 or more days before course date Full refund minus $25 administrative fee

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Lodging Cancellation Policy: Lodging is by Weather: Courses take place as planned advance reservation only. We request that in in all weather conditions if the instructor the event you have to cancel your reservation, and SFI determine that it is safe to proceed. you give us 48 hours notice. If you cancel or Participants are responsible for appropriate decide to shorten your stay within two days of footwear, hats and clothing. A list of suggested your scheduled arrival, or do not arrive on your clothing and gear is included in each course reserved date, we will charge your credit card letter. for one night’s stay.

34 Siskiyou Field Institute • www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org An SFI Class Near You

Siskiyou Field Institute is located in Selma, in the Illinois Valley about 20 miles south of Grants Pass off Highway 199. Many of our field courses originate here -- but you can also find an SFI class in your part of the bioregion.

Coos County, OR • Natural History and Geology Flowering Plants of the Rogue-Scenic Byway • Spring Mushroom Foray at • Estuarine Ecology at the • Birds, Blooms and Bumbles Pacifica Mouth of the Coquille River on Mt. Ashland • Serpentine Geology • Coastal Ecology Weekend • Edible Mushrooms of the • Oak Ecology and Acorn Douglas County, OR Southern Cascades Ethnobotany • Tree Stories • Natural History and Geology Josephine County/ • Edible Mushrooms of the of the Rogue-Umpqua Illinois Valley, OR Siskiyous Scenic Byway • Hugelkutur Workshop • Exploring the World of Fungi Harney County, OR • BioChar Workshop Klamath County, OR

• Forest Fragments • Great Basin Butterflies • Raptors and Waterfowl of • The Healing Forest • Alpine Pollinator Ecology of the Klamath Basin • Intermediate Lichens Eastern Oregon • Crater Lake Wildflowers: • Sketch Your Way to Better Botany and Photography Jackson County/ Botany Rogue Valley, OR • Illinois River Natural History Lake County, OR from a Raft • Spring Mushroom Foray in • Birding Basin and Range: • Edible and Medicinal Plants the Southern Cascades Wood River to Summer Lake • Rogue River Restoration at Pacifica from a Raft • Bootstrap Botany on 8 Del Norte County, CA Dollar Mountain • Birding Del Norte • Learn to Love Canyonville • Botanizing the North Fork of Those Latin Names Siskiyou Field Institute the Smith River 11Port llinois Orford iver oad, elma, Oregon • Reptiles and 5 River Crater Lake N.P. River Amphibians of the Shasta County, CA Rogue Grants Rogue River Rogue Pass Siskiyou Area Gold White City • Birding Ahjumawi Lava Beach Kalmiopsis 199 Medford • Meet the Trees Wilderness Selma 101 Springs State Park by Kayak Cave Junction Ashland • A Single-Day Brookings Oregon Caves N.M. Oregon Natural History Siskiyou County, CA Siskiyou Mountains California 199 Tour of the Oregon River Lava Beds Klamath National • Dragonflies of Siskiyou Happy Camp Redwood Yreka Monument 97 Caves Crescent National City County Park River • Botanizing Bigelow Marble 5 Mountains Mt.Shasta Lakes Orleans Weed N Klamath Mount • Crash Course in A Salmon Shasta

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Fortuna Hayfork From the north - Take From the south - Take exit 55 Ferndale Redding Rio Dell exit 58 into Grants into Grants Pass. Drive through Anderson Pass. Go through Grants Pass on Hwy. 199. Follow 5 Eel Grants Pass, bear right directions above. Red Bluff onto Hwy. 199. Drive 101 River Yolla Bolly Mountains approximately 20 miles From Highway 101 in California: to Selma. At the first Take exit 794 onto Hwy. 199 Covelo Orland blinking yellow light, toward Grants Pass. Drive Laytonville eon turn right onto Illinois approximately 70 miles to Selma.

101 River Road. Drive 1.3 At the second blinking yellow Fort Bragg Willits 5 miles, turn left onto light, turn left onto Illinois River DCC’s driveway. Road. Drive 1.3 miles, turn left C Williams Nice onto DCC’s driveway. 1 mi Ukiah 35 SFI Lodging and Events

PHOTOS: LEFT—SFI ARCHIVES; RIGHT TOP—K.M. PYLE; RIGHT BOTTOM—SFI ARCHIVES Stay at Siskiyou Field Institute and explore our beautiful surroundings! Siskiyou Field Institute’s 850-acre property sits at the gateway to the wild and scenic Illinois River and the geologically and floristically significant 8 Dollar Mountain and Kalmiopsis Wilderness. We’re within a short driving distance from Illinois Valley wineries, the Oregon Caves National Monument and the Smith River. Deer Creek Center makes an ideal base camp for hiking and kayaking visits, research projects, family or couple getaways, organizational retreats, and other special events. The historic Kendeda House, our headquarters, is available for lodging and facility rental. It features a large classroom, three private en suite bedrooms, an indoor dorm that sleeps seven, fully equipped kitchen, spacious great room with a large fireplace, and a covered terrace with spectacular Siskiyou Mountain views. Outdoor accommodations include two group yurts, unlimited campsites, bathhouse featuring solar-heated showers and a covered picnic pavilion. Lodgers and campers also have easy access to creekside trails on our property. For an extra charge, groups can rent our Outdoor Challenge Course including certified facilitators (see page 5). Please note: Advance reservations required for all lodging and day use.

Description Regular Rates Member Rates Camp site in tent, car, RV, or camp trailer (no hook-ups) $15/night $12/night with access to bathhouse and pavilion. Small (sleeps 12) or large yurt (sleeps 18) $20/night $18/night Hostel-style dormitory (sleeps 7) $27/night $24/night Private room with double occupancy $75/night $67/night Private room, SFI student participating in a field course $55/night N/A Additional guest in private room $15/night $12/night Day use and overnight (only) parking fee $5/vehicle $4/vehicle

36 541.597.8530 • www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org SFI Lodging and Events

PHOTOS BY K.M. PYLE PHOTO BY JAMES ADAM TAYLOR Events and Facility Rentals at SFI BIRTHDAYS • RETIREMENTS • BABY OR BRIDAL SHOWERS • MEMORIALS ANNIVERSARIES • RETREATS • CONFERENCES • CLASSES

Facility Included Regular Rates Member Discount Pavilion & Bathhouse* $55/hr, $440/day $45/hr, $360/day Front Porch & Bathhouse* $55/hr, $440/day $45/hr, $360/day Lodge Kitchen, great room, classroom* $75/hr, $600/day $65/hr, $520/day Lodge Kitchen, great room OR classroom* $40/hr, $320/day $35/hr, $280/day Exclusive use of entire facility* $125/hr, $1000/day $115/hr, $920/day Facilited low ropes challenge course $15/person $13/person (min 10 people) Facilitated high & low ropes course $40/person $36/person (min 10 people) *Please allow for set-up and tear down time Celebrate Love With Us! Wedding day package: $1,700 Wedding, Overnight & Camping package: $2,700 Includes: Set-up time the day prior to event Includes: Set up and rehearsal time from 2 p.m.- and rehearsal time 2 p.m. – 8 p.m., exclusive 8 p.m. the day prior to the event; day of event use of the lodge living areas, the bathhouse, exclusive access to the main lodge, 3 private and the grounds from 9 a.m. -10 p.m. on the rooms, and dorm; access to both yurts, private day of event, our dorm and the “John Wayne” tent camping, bath house, pavilion, classroom, room for bridal and groom party access from and the grounds from day of event at 9 a.m. to 9 a.m. -10 p.m. on the day of the event. the following day at 12 p.m. **Clean-up and rental equipment removal must be complete by 12 p.m. the day following the event to receive security deposit refund. Call us at 541-597-8530 or email [email protected] for more information about lodging and facility rental policies. 37 Naturalist Certificate

Our Naturalist Certificate program promotes deeper knowledge of Klamath Siskiyou Ecology

If you’re in the job market, this How it works: certification can enhance your job skills • Enroll in the and employability. If you’re retired, Naturalist what you learn will enrich your life Certificate and volunteer experiences. Learn from program by expert interpreter/instructors, then pass paying a fee along that natural science knowledge (currently $25) as an interpreter yourself. You can even contribute to community ecological • We then mail you a series of supplemental knowledge by training as a citizen scientist readings. You will be required to report on these through our Naturalist Certificate program. in writing. SFI’s program provides a broad natural- • Earn credits as you learn. Complete 50 hours of history overview with specific learning coursework with at least one field course in each experiences in four different categories: category listed in the table below. Species, Habitats, Ecological Processes Please note: Hours earned toward the certificate are and Skills. As you attend courses and in parentheses and may not match the hours you comment on assigned readings, you’ll actually spend in the course. begin to recognize and understand this We’ll be happy to assist in designing your region’s unique flora, fauna and ecological program. Visit www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org or processes. call 541-597-8530. 2020 Naturalist Certificate Courses SPECIES HABITATS ECOLOGICAL SKILLS PROCESSES Raptors and Waterfowl Birding Del Norte (16 hrs.) Hugelkultur Workshop (8 hrs.)

of the Klamath Basin The Healing Forest (8 hrs.) Illinois River Natural Biochar Workshop (8 hrs.) (16 hrs.) History from a Raft (8 hrs.)

Reptiles and Botanizing the North Fork of the Estuarine Ecology at the Forest Fragments: Drawing Native Amphibians of the Smith RIver (16 hrs.) Mouth of the Coquille Plants in an Ethnobotanical Sketchbook Klamath-Siskiyou Area River (16 hrs.) (8 hrs.) (16 hrs.) Coastal Ecology Weekend (16 hrs.) Natural History and Edible and Medicinal Plants at

Meet the Trees Geology of the Rogue- Pacifica (8 hrs.) (4 hrs.) A Single-Day Natural History Tour of the Oregon Caves Umpqua Scenic Byway Sketch Your Way to Better Botany (8 hrs.) (16 hrs.) (16 hrs.) Great Basin Butterflies (16 hrs.) Birding Basin and Range: Wood Volcanology of the Bootstrap Botany and River to Summer Lake (16 hrs.) Newberry Caldera Photography Wildflowers of Crater on 8 Dollar Mountain (16 hrs.) (16 hrs.) Lake Botany and Rogue River Restoration from a Raft: Gold Ray Anniversary Photography (16 hrs,) Geology of the Mount Spring Mushroom Foray (8 hrs.) Shasta Area (16 hrs.) in the Southern Cascades Crash Course in (8 hrs.) Mud Springs and Flattop: Mary Flowering Plant Paetzel’s Butterfly Bog (8 hrs.) Serpentine Geology of Families (16 hrs.) Spring Mushroom Foray the Klamath-Siskiyous at Pacifica (8 hrs.) Birds, Blooms and Bumbles on (8 hrs.) Dragonflies of Mt. Ashland (8 hrs.) Learn to Love Those Latin Names

Siskiyou County Oak Ecology and Acorn (16 hrs.) (16 hrs.) The Art of Mount Shasta Wildflowers (8 hrs.) Ethnobotany (8 hrs.) Edible Mushrooms of the

Southern Cascades (8 hrs.) Alpine Pollinator Birding Ahjumawi Lava Exploring the World of Ecology of Eastern Springs by Kayak (16 hrs.) Fungi (16 hrs.) Edible Mushrooms of the Oregon (16 hrs.) Siskiyous (8 hrs.)

38 Siskiyou Field Institute • www.siskiyoufieldinstitute.org 2020 Registration Form

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