Join the people at Eagle Hill this summer for a week-long, natural history seminar taught by expert field biologists. Eagle Hill is located on the coast of Maine, between Acadia National Park and Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge. For more details click here
Eagle Hill Institute’s 2024 Vascular Plants and Related Seminars
| Jun 30 – Jul 6 | Grasses and Sedges as a Way to Read the Landscape *1 | Brett Engstrom and Jerry Jenkins |
| Jul 14 – 20 | Grass Identification: An In-depth Review | Dennis Magee and Rick Van de Poll |
| Jul 28 – Aug 3 | Natural Communities of the Maine Coast: An In-depth Experience for Field Botanists and Naturalists *1 | Robert Wernerehl and Kristen Puryear |
| Aug 4 – 10 | Submersed and Emergent Aquatic Flowering Plant *1 *F | C. Barre Hellquist |
| Aug 11 – 17 | Ferns and Lycophytes: Identification, Biology, and Natural History *2 | Robbin Moran, Carl Taylor, Alejandra Vasco |
| Aug 25 – 31 | Pressing Plants for Art and Science *F | Daniel Atha |
| Sep 8 – 14 | Identification of Trees and Woody Plants of the Northern Forest: A Wholistic Approach | Erika Mitchell |
For general information, the registration form, seminar flyers, and a complete calendar:
https://eaglehill.us/programs/
If you have any questions about the content of the seminar, please reach out to the seminar instructor(s), whose contact info can be found on the seminar flyer. If a seminar you are interested in is full, and you would like to be put on the waitlist, please fill out the application form.
If you have any questions about registering for the seminar, please contact us at office@eaglehill.us.
Description: Winter is a wonderful time to get to know the trees and woody plants of the Northern Forest. Without the distractions of summer leaves, we can focus on the more enduring characteristics of the woody members of forest habitats. In this seminar, we will take a wholistic approach to winter plant identification, integrating information of many types, including habitat, growth form, bark, needles and leaf remnants, fruit, twig arrangement, and buds. We will discuss aspects of dendrology, forest ecology, and plant anatomy as they relate to winter identification of woody plants. The seminar will consist of weekly interactive lectures and discussions with field challenge assignments to collect photographic observations of woody plants in nearby forests or parks. We will share these photographic observations through a citizen science course project on iNaturalist. Participants who are not able to access forests in winter may focus their efforts on assisting with identification and curation of the online course project collection.
