Coast Trail Trailhead, Point Reyes Station, CA
Saturday, May 16 from 10 am to 3 pm
$20-75
This class is for people who enjoy learning about everything – trees, ferns, butterflies, galls, birds, fungi, lichens and more!
As John Muir observed, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” Caterpillars depend on specific host plants, and butterflies rely on nectar sources. Birds gather food and nesting materials while serving as pollinators and seed-spreaders. Fungi form mycorrhizal partnerships with certain trees, and gall-making insects choose not only particular shrubs, vines, or trees, but even specific parts - leaves, stems, or buds. Beetles disperse spores; ants carry seeds.
In this class, we’ll slow down and tune our senses to these connections — looking, listening, and even smelling our way through the habitats we explore. Together, we’ll learn to notice the subtle relationships and hidden stories woven into the tapestry of life along the trail.