Field Trip
Time: 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Meeting Place: steps of the Tipton Meeting House

Description: We’ll have introductions from 10-10:30, then head out to explore the lichens of Sedgwick. Bring a lunch, hand lens, and your lichen book. We have permission to collect specimens and we’ll have some resources for working on lichen identification back at the Tipton Meeting House.

Sedgwick Reserve, located in the Santa Ynez Valley, is part of the UC Natural Reserve System. Public access to the reserve is limited, so CALS members will have a unique opportunity to explore this beautiful property. The reserve hosts a rich lichen flora that thrives in a diversity of habitats including coastal sage scrub, chaparral, oak woodlands, gray pine forest, and riparian areas.

Be sure to check out the field guide to Lichens of Sedgwick Reserve and Santa Barbara County by Shirley Tucker. Also, a lichen checklist for the reserve is available in the Bulletin of the California Lichen Society: 2012, volume 19(2): 94-97. פחות ↑