Join Dr. Krupa at Hazeldell Meadow Nature Preserve and hear all about his latest studies of Kentucky’s rarest carnivorous plant, the dwarf sundew, (Drosera brevifolia).
Join Dr. Julian Campbell at Griffith Woods and hear all about this iconic bluegrass woodland with old growth oaks and hickories, cane thickets, and remnant mesic herbaceous flowers, such as bear grass and running buffalo clover.
We are sorry, but this workshop is completely full. Many of the grass like plants one may encounter in Kentucky in our natural areas are not actually grasses. Although similar, they are members of an entirely different family of plants. This workshop will focus on the largest genus within the sedge family (Cyperaceae), the genus […]
Join Jim Scheff (Director of Heartwood), Tara Littlefield (botanist at the office of Kentucky Nature Preserves) and David Taylor (forest botanist at the Daniel Boone National Forest) as we explore the Keno and Curt Pond Ridge Conservation Site, a botanical hotspot of prairie and pine oak barrens, seeps and upland ponds just south of Somerset.
Join Laura Baird, assistant preserve manager and naturalist, on a hike to view the prairie restoration, as well as the adjacent forests at Shakertown.
223 Jefferson Street in Berea at Memorial Park in the big shelter house. Rain or shine. All proceeds benefit Monarch.watch and other nature groups. Call Ann Longsworth at 859-985-0309 for questions.
Join Devin Rodgers, botanist at Kentucky Nature Preserves, as we stop at several botanically important sites at LBL from prairies to wetlands.
Join Chris Benda (Illinois botanizer), Jeff Nelson (KNPS Board Member), Tara Littlefield (Botanist at Kentucky Nature Preserves/Kentucky Botanist), and Shelly Morris (Western Kentucky TNC Project Director) as we conduct a floristic inventory at Mantle Rock of sandstone glades, barrens, woodlands and mesic forests at this floristically fascinating site.
