San Diego County, California
This event is for VMF's Sustaining Friends of Volcan Mountain. Click here to learn more and become a Sustaining Friend!
If you are already a Sustaining Friend, click here to register for the event by Monday, October 10th.
If you have questions, or would like us to assist you with registering, please phone us: 760-765-2300
Saturday, September 24th at 1pm, the Volcan Mountain Foundation (VMF) and the Julian Dark Sky Network (JSDN) are co-hosting a free community forum at the Julian Library about the wide-ranging virtues and values of dark skies and how we can work as a community to protect Julian’s dark skies, alongside our other natural resources and treasures like Volcan Mountain. Can Julian become a 'Dark Sky Community'?
Sunday, September 25th come learn the art of wildcrafting with local berries at the Volcan Mountain Foundation's Volcan Mountain Nature Center at the headwaters of Santa Ysabel Creek in Julian.
PLEASE VOLUNTEER ON SATURDAY, JULY 16TH!
Volcan Mountain Foundation Conservation Chair, Sharyl Massey is looking for a few good volunteers that aren’t afraid to roll up their sleeves and get dirty. Come out for a work party on Saturday, July 16th, and help with brush clearing and tasks around VMF’s Volcan Mountain Nature Center. Of course, there’s always fun to be had too!
….MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK, SO ANYONE INTERESTED IS WELCOME!
Sunday, June 19th, celebrate Father's Day by visiting a San Diego treasure with inspiring views of Volcan Mountain. The Ilan Lael Foundation is once again holding it's annual James Hubbell studio and home tour. They've returned the property to all it's glory over the past decade since the great fire, and more construction is underway on a courtyard building to house the activities of the Ilan Lael Foundation.
Saturday, June 11th the Mountain Lion Foundation (MLF) is partnering with the Julian & Santa Ysabel 4-H Club to demonstrate how to design and build secure livestock enclosures and find out more about keeping mountain lions away from homes and farms. You're invited to come help and learn! See how to RSVP below for location and details.
Sunday, June 26th come learn the art of wildcrafting at the Volcan Mountain Foundation’s Volcan Mountain Nature Center at the headwaters of Santa Ysabel Creek in Julian. June's wildcrafting event, focused on sage, will be at the Nature Center's beautiful Outdoor Classroom.
Join us at Mom's Pie House in Julian for the opening reception and unveiling of artwork produced by the youth participants in this session of VMF's Kids with Cameras!
Find more out about Kids with Cameras and all of VMF's exciting education programs at:
http://volcanmt.org/kids-cameras-spring-2016
Tuesday, May 10th from 5:30-7:30pm, come to the Julian Library to learn more about mountain lions, and living alongside them in a rural area like Julian, from speakers with the Mountain Lion Foundation (MLF), a nationwide organization based in California, and also from Dr. Winston Vickers of the Southern California Puma Project. The program will also launch MLF’s new Julian Mountain Lion Project recently formed by Julian resident Jane Santorumn.
Saturday, May 28th at 9am enjoy a Volcan Mountain ‘Smarty-Plants’ Walk. This is a rescheduled event that was rained out from Mother's Day weekend and orginally part of the Julian Women's Club Wildflower Show that had a theme of ‘Smarty Plants’: The Intelligence of Plants.