San Diego County, California
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.
Tuesday, March 8th at 6pm, the Julian Library is inviting the public to an informative, free panel discussion on the Gold-Spotted Oak Borer and efforts to Save Our Oaks. Panelists will include an arborist, a forester from Cal-Fire and experts from teh University of California, Riverside.
*** This hike series has sold out... We're planning another Trails and Ales in Fall. Keep your eyes on this space, and be prepared to act fast! ***
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Sunday, February 28th 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.
Native Red Clay Pottery with Janice Smith and Kathleen Beck is the theme for the February wildcrafting event.