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AT23-123 NPSOT Kerrville: Rare and Endangered Plants Field Trip to the San Antonio Botanical Gardens, San Antonio
April 27, 2023 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Event Title: Rare and Endangered Plants Field Trip to the San Antonio Botanical Gardens
VMS-AT: AT: Native Plant Society of Texas (Enter AT#, Class Title as posted, Name of NPSOT Chapter, and Presenter)
Comments: AT23-123 NPSOT Kerrville: Rare and Endangered Plants Field Trip to the San Antonio Botanical Gardens, San Antonio, Presenter: Michael Eason (AT=1.5h)
Event Date: 4/27/2023
Event Time: 10:30a-12:00p
Note: The 4/27 Nature Journaling workshop, AT22-386, which is normally held in Kerrville at the Riverside Nature Center, will be at the San Antonio Botanical Garden from 1:30-3:30. While the field trip is NPSOT Kerrville members only, nature journaling is open to all if they want to come.
Event Summary:
A special tour of the rare and endangered plants garden and behind the scenes tour of the greenhouses with Michael Eason of the San Antonio Botanical Gardens.
Event Description:
No entry fees for the gardens today (waived just for us), but you will want to bring money for lunch afterwards at the gardens.
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Michael Eason will present. He is the head of the San Antonio Botanical Garden rare plant conservation department. He is also a conservation botanist for Texas Flora, a botanical consulting company. He has previously worked with the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the Millennium Seed Bank Project. He is the author of Wildflowers of Texas.
Members only tour for the Native Plant Society of Texas, Kerrville Chapter.
RSVP and liability form required
Stay for nature journaling after lunch at the gardens. Separate AT for this.
Carpooling will be available once we know who is going.
Cost: No charge
Register @: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1DYDvnMNlhbihHyBi7gzlC0NmxpxKO-lOWK-z64KXoQyggg/viewform
Event Location:
San Antonio Botanical Gardens
555 Fulston Place
San Antonio, Texas
Instructor/Presenter:
Michael Eason, San Antonio Botanical Garden
Contact Information:
Nancy Huffman
Collettehuff@yahoo.com
(832) 851-9866
Organization Website:
https://www.npsot.org/wp/kerrville
Sponsoring Organization:
NPSOT Kerrville
