Tuesday, January 31, 7:00 p.m.: Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
Free lecture and book signing with Dan Flores. Tuesday, January 31, 7:00 p.m. Legion Wing, Veterans Memorial Hall. 1745 Mission Drive, Solvang. While frequently seen in Santa Barbara County, and increasingly found even in urban areas across the country, the coyote remains a mysterious animal with its uncanny night howls, unrivaled ingenuity, and amazing resilience. […]
Saturday, February 11, 6:45 p.m.: Annual Members’ Meeting at Sedgwick Reserve, preceding Oak Studies lecture
Annual Members’ Meeting Saturday, February 11, 6:45 p.m. Tipton House, UC Sedgwick Reserve. 3566 Brinkerhoff Avenue, Santa Ynez. Immediately preceding the California Oak Studies lecture at Sedgwick Reserve, the annual Members’ meeting will be held at 6:45 p.m., to elect and introduce new board members for 2017, and hear a brief Treasurer’s report. Members, please […]
Saturday, February 11, 7:00 p.m.: A Trilogy of California Oak Studies: Phylogeny, Phenology, and “Flow-ology”
Free lecture with Victoria Sork and Andy Lentz Saturday, February 11, 7:00 p.m. Tipton House, UC Sedgwick Reserve. 3566 Brinkerhoff Avenue, Santa Ynez. As oaks in California face ever-changing threats to their survival, this timely talk will deepen our understanding of their evolutionary history as well as their fragility and potential resilience. Victoria Sork and […]
Thursday, March 2, 7:30 p.m.: Harnessing Water & Harvesting Soil: 2,000 Years of Water Harvesting in the Petra Hinterlands
Free lecture with Erin Addison. Thursday, March 2, 7:30 p.m. Santa Ynez Valley Grange. 2374 Alamo Pintado Ave, Los Olivos. Erin Addison is an historian and landscape architect who has worked in Jordan since 1994. She began her work in the Middle East as a Fulbright scholar researching the water infrastructure and politics of the […]
Thursday, May 11, 7:00 p.m.: Mosquitoes and Mosquito-borne Disease in Santa Barbara County
Free lecture with David Chang. Thursday, May 11, 7:00 p.m. Co-sponsored by Solvang Library. Solvang Library, 1745 Mission Drive. Bzzzzz! Are mosquitoes good for anything at all? Join us for a free lecture that will answer many questions, but perhaps not that one. Besides being a nuisance, mosquitoes are a public health pest that can […]
Saturday, June 10: FILM SCREENING: “Gaviota, the End of Southern California”
Free documentary film screening Saturday, June 10, 7:00 p.m. Tipton Meeting House. UCSB Sedgwick Reserve. 3566 Brinkerhoff Avenue. Santa Ynez, CA. Join us for a free screening of Gaviota, the End of Southern California. The Gaviota Coast Conservancy says their film “. . . explores one of the most threatened biodiversity hotspots in the world. […]
Thursday, September 15: Global Warming: Could Scientists Be Wrong?
Free lecture and book signing with James Lawrence Powell. Thursday, September 15, 7:00 p.m. Co-sponsored by Solvang Library. Legion Wing, Veterans Memorial Hall. 1745 Mission Dr., Solvang. Scientists have been wrong before: think of continental drift, deep time, and meteorite impact. Could they be wrong today about global warming? If so, how exactly? The stories […]
Tuesday, October 11: King Sequoia: The Tree That Inspired a Nation, Created Our National Park System, and Changed the Way We Think about Nature
Free lecture and book signing with William C. Tweed. Tuesday, October 11, 7:00 p.m. Legion Wing, Veterans Memorial Hall. 1745 Mission Dr., Solvang. Join us for a fascinating evening as one of California’s preeminent naturalists unspools a history that echoes across generations and continents. Former park ranger William C. Tweed will take us on a […]