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Into Africa | Deb Essman | August 2023 | YVAS Program
General ·Travels in Africa with Deb Essman
Please join me, Deb Essman, as I share my photo safari of South Africa and Botswana. The vast numbers of African wildlife were amazing to me, and I hope I can impart the same awe I felt as I...
Clark's Nutcrackers and Whitebark Pine - Pivotal Players in our Western Mountains | Taza Schaming | May 2023 | YVAS Program
General ·YVAS Monthly Meeting and Program - Taza Schaming - Clark’s Nutcrackers and Whitebark Pine: Pivotal Players in our Western Mountains
Whitebark pine and Clark’s Nutcrackers have a fascinating relationship: the trees provide rich, fatty seeds, and the birds “plant” the trees’ seeds —a single bird...
A "Big Natural Year" in Wild America | Andy and Ellen Stepniewski | March 2023 | YVAS Program
General ·YVAS Chapter Meeting March 2023 - A "Big Natural Year" in Wild America
Roger Tory Peterson invited his British colleague James Fisher on a 3-month natural history tour of North America in 1953. They recounted this journey in Wild America, which takes the reader on...
Woodpeckers Part 2 - The Rest of the Story | Denny Granstrand | February 2023 | YVAS Program
General ·YVAS Chapter Meeting February 2023 - Woodpeckers: Part 2 - The Rest of the Story
As a follow-up to his program for YVAS last year, “My Woodpecker Big Year”, Denny Granstrand will lead us on an exploration of many of the species of woodpeckers not...