Natural History Wanderings

Join us on July 27 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. for the second summer webinar series: Beat the Heat with Cool Webinars! Anza-Borrego: In Focus, The Little Things That Run the World, A Journey to Understanding Insects Across California REGISTER NOW

We are lucky to have entomologist Eva Horna Lowell share her journey of managing the California Insect Biodiversity Initiative for the San Diego Natural History Museum. Eva will talk about how she frolics across San Diego and Imperial Counties, setting up various traps to catch insects, and then spends endless hours behind the microscope sorting and identifying them.

Join us on August 31 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. for the third summer webinar series: Beat the Heat with Cool Webinars! Anza-Borrego: In Focus, Journey to the Center of the World: Centrality and Sacredness in the Colorado Desert.REGISTER NOW

This talk uses an interdisciplinary lens to explore notions of place, sacredness, and centrality in the Colorado Desert, including Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. This unique subsection of the larger Sonoran Desert is replete with themes of universal significance, where past and present, local and global, sacred and profane, all intersect. Studying the history of the Colorado Desert offers an experiential reflection on place and the diverse meanings attributed to it, including traditions of the sacred, which memorialize the desert as a locus of the holy — and holiness is directly related to notions of value, significance, and centrality.