San Diego County, California
Over a year ago, Kathleen Beck, Education Coordinator for the Volcan Mountain Foundation (VMF), envisioned a watershed relief map that could help teach visitors about Volcan Mountain’s vital watershed sources, and give them a hands-on experience on how watersheds function. She presented the idea for the 3D representation to a once local artist, Eleanor War
Our wildly successful class in Elderberry syrup making is impelling us to proceed with our second class in Wildcrafting. On October 11th Kathleen Beck and Janice Bina-Smith will offer a Wildcrafting class on the subject of Acorns and Manzanita berries. We will be making Acorn cookies and Manzanita sugar. We will also be sampling the apples that grow on the Volcan Mt.
Your donation today helps support programs like the 2015 Volcan Mountain Foundation Summer Sessions for Kids that were expanded this year to three weeks of 3-day sessions and the
Spring! Lovely one day, snowy the next! And the trees are happy, as we have received over 12 inches of precipitation so far this Spring.
The Volcan Mountain Foundation's newest addition to both Education and Research is VMF's Wildlife Imaging Team (WIT), a group of 10 volunteers who are helping to categorize and make sense of our vast number of remote camera viewing images. This group of 10 have been joined recently by Biology Professor Mike Mooring and his Conservation Biology students from Point Loma Nazarene University.