| The Wayne Roderick Lectures – Winter 2014-2015
A popular series of free public lectures on a broad array of topics related to plants and natural history. Named in honor of its founder, the Wayne Roderick Lecture Series takes place on Saturday mornings from November through February at 10:30 a.m. in the Visitor Center of the Regional Parks Botanic Garden. These illustrated presentations are enjoyable for beginners and professionals alike. All lectures are free and open to the public. |
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At the Regional Parks Botanic Garden Shasta Rd, Berkeley, CA 94708
Saturday Mornings 10:30 Seating is limited! Come Very Early and Save a Chair.
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| November 1, 2014 | Flora ID Northwest: A new set of apps and computer programs for plant identification – interactive keys for both amateur and professional botanists | Bruce Barnes |
| November 8, 2014 | Highlights of Cook & Green Pass in the Siskiyou Mountains | Ted Kipping |
| November 15, 2014 | Natural History of Iceland | Ron Felzer |
| November 22, 2014 | A rose is still a rose, but is a monkeyflower still aMimulus? Where have all the monkeyflowers gone…findings from the lab and the field | Naomi Fraga |
| November 29, 2014 | Fall color in California wildlands | Stew Winchester |
| December 6, 2014 | Botanizing Baja California by mule: Adventures into remote regions of Baja California, including cowboy uses of indigenous plants | Sula Vanderplank |
| December 13, 2014 | The Mt. Diablo fire of 2013 and its bounty of flowers | Steve Edwards |
| December 20, 2014 | Steens Mountain Flora | Dick O’Donnell |
| December 27, 2014 | NO lecture – enjoy the holidays! | |
| January 3, 2015 | Continuing the Trillium search, and the last two National Parks | Bob Case |
| January 10, 2015 | Old growth rainforest of southeastern Alaska | John Kipping |
| January 17, 2015 | Euphorbia hunting in the Old World: From the Arabian Desert to the deserts and savannas of Africa | Jeff Morawetz |
| January 24, 2015 | Conserving Northwestern Baja California | Alan Harper |
| January 31, 2015 | Flora of the Islands of the Gulf of California, Mexico | Ben Wilder |
| February 7, 2015 | Images from Isla de Cedros, the floristic edge of California. A summer vacation on a desert island in Baja California during a record breaking drought | Michael Uhler |
| February 14, 2015 | Humboldt County and the great divorce | Steve Edwards |
| February 21, 2015 | The Flora of the Blue Mountains of Oregon | Dick O’Donnell |
| February 28, 2015 | Two completed projects: The checklist of the flora – and the rare, endangered, and endemic plants – of northwestern Baja California, Mexico | Bart O’Brien |
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