Santa Ynez Valley Natural History Society

Dedicated to the study, exploration, and appreciation of natural history
in the Santa Ynez Valley region.

Past Field Trips

Past field trips are organized below in the Program Season when they occurred. Please note that our “season” runs over two periods, the first beginning in fall of one year and the second beginning in winter the next year.
 
Search all past field trips using basic keywords, such as a presenter’s name or a topic such as “geology.”

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2025 Program Season: Field trips

Fall 2024 Program Season

Fall 2023 – Spring 2024 Program Season

2022 – 2023 Program Season

2021 – 2022 Program Season

2020 – 2021 Program Season:

We had no field trips this season due to the Covid pandemic.

2019 – 2020 Program Season

2018 – 2019 Program Season

2017 – 2018 Program Season

2016 – 2017 Program Season

2015 – 2016 Program Season

2014 – 2015 Program Season

WORK-in-PROGRESS! We ask for your patience as we continue to transition to our new website. Our previous website served beautifully for a long time, but it finally could not keep up with software advances. See below that several posts are either lacking full text, photos, or both. Sometimes things get lost along the way when moving to a new site, and we’re working to reconstruct as best we can.

Our programs continue back to 2000

Our website shows programs going back to the 2014-2015 season only. The Santa Ynez Valley Natural History Society began providing environmental education in 2000, when it was founded.

If you’re interested in seeing the list of all programs before fall 2014, please contact us at syvnature@syvnature.org.