Special Pinelands Plants Course 2008
This program is designed to help consultants, government personnel, researchers and citizens understand the special plants of the New Jersey Pinelands.
This year's program will address the identification, ecology and restoration of the Pinelands' rare flora. (Note important changes. compared with prior years' courses.)
Classroom sessions will run on Tuesday evenings, from 7 to 9 pm, beginning in June. These sessions will be lectures and workshops that focus either on systematics or the principles and practices of restoration. Registrations will be for individual sessions. The cost is $15 for regular sessions and $25 for special guest speaker sessions.
Field trips will be on Saturdays and Sundays. Most of these trips will be to New Jersey Natural Heritage Priority Sites within the Pinelands, and the purpose will be to develop field botany skills and collect data for the Heritage Program. The field trip registration fee will be $10 per trip. The field trips will not necessarily be directly linked to any particular classroom sessions.
The updated edition of the South Jersey Rare Plant Workbook will be available to participants.
Click here for the list of recommended reference material (Acrobat .pdf document.)
Tuesday evening classroom sessions are scheduled as follows:
- June 10 - Intro to the flora of South Jersey
- June 24 - Particular rare taxa of the Pinelands
- July 1 - Particular rare taxa of the Pinelands
- July 8 - Particular rare taxa of the Pinelands
- July 15 - Special guest speaker Matt Palmer: principles of restoration ecology, Part One
- July 22 - Special guest speaker Matt Palmer: principles of restoration ecology , Part Two
- July 29 - Particular rare taxa of the Pinelands
- August 5 - Special guest speaker Ted Gordon: restoration issues and particular cases in the Pinelands
- August 12 - Particular rare taxa of the Pinelands
- August 19 - Special guest speaker Bill Young: practical application of restoration principles
- August 26 - Special guest speaker Ernie Schuyler: particular rare taxa of the Pinelands in the family Cyperaceae
- September 2 - Special guest speaker Wayne Ferren: the significance of the rare plants of the Pinelands
- September 9 - Special guest speaker Emile Devito: restoration projects in the Pinelands, here and now
- September 23 - Particular rare taxa of the Pinelands
- September 30 - Particular rare taxa of the Pinelands.
Saturday and Sunday field trips are scheduled as follows. Trips will run from 9 am to 3 pm. Locations and other pertinent details will be available several weeks prior to each trip.
- Saturday, June 21
- Sunday, June 29
- Sunday, July 13
- Saturday, July 26 - no registration fee - trip led by Ted Gordon, sponsored by the Philadelphia Botanical Club
- Saturday, August 9
- Saturday, August 23
- Saturday, September 6
- Saturday, September 20
Please make all correspondence by email, if possible. Contact russell@pinelandsalliance.org. You can register either by check or by credit card, sending your full name, address, phone number, email address and a list of all the sessions and field trips you wish to attend, with full payment. Registrations will be processed in the order received. There will be a limit to the class size.
