Field Class: Thinking Like a Forest

Join Ruthie Dougherty, SJPT Preserve Curator/Interpretive Specialist, and special guest, Jane Billinghurst, for a thought-provoking forest walk at the Ellis Preserve on Shaw Island.

Jane is the translator of Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees and co-author with Peter of Forest Walking: Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America. When she is not out hiking in the Anacortes Forestlands, she edits a wide range of natural history titles for Greystone Books in Vancouver, Canada. On this walk with Jane, we will discover how the various parts of a forest interact, learn how a forest is so much more than just a collection of trees, and find tiny treasures on the forest floor.

• Date: Saturday, July 20, 2024 

• Time: 1:00pm - 3:30pm

• Location: 842 Hoffman Cove Rd., Shaw Island

• Bring: Water, clothes, and footwear for a summertime walk in the woods

• Questions? Email Ruthie Dougherty, SJPT Preserve Curator/Interpretive Specialist

Please note:

This event is limited to the first 10 people who sign up. (You can join the waiting list when you sign up if capacity has been reached. If there are cancellations, we will contact the next in line as soon as possible.)

All participants are required to sign an SJPT liability waiver. Please ensure that everyone you register, including yourself, has filled out our online waiver in English or en Español (required as part of the registration process).

Todos los participantes deben firmar una exención de responsabilidad del SJPT. Asegúrese de que todas las personas que registre, incluido usted mismo, hayan completado nuestra exención en línea en inglés o en español (requerido como parte del proceso de registro).