East Bay Dinner

"Bay Area Wildflowers"

Thursday, April 24, cocktails/social hour - 6 pm, dinner - 7:00, program - 8:00, Berkeley Yacht Club,

You have two chances to join Mia Monroe and Ken Lavin for a wonderful evening of lecture and slides showing wildflowers of the San Francisco Bay Area. Here is your chance to increase your botanical knowledge and be better able to identify new species when we hit the trails after our winter rains. Mia and Ken will share their favorite flower-viewing spots, from the chaparral-covered slopes of Mount Diablo to the redwood-filled canyons of Mount Tamalpais.

Mia and Ken's presentation will include humorous anecdotes about the adventures and misadventures of early botanists, fascinating flower folklore, and interesting tidbits about the unsung heroes - the pollinators. You may never look at a flower in quite the same way again.

Mia Monroe is supervising ranger for Muir Woods National Monument. This year marks the centennial of Muir Woods. The creation of the Monument 100 years ago was a milestone in the conservation movement in the United States and an important early victory for the Sierra Club. Mia has worked at Muir Woods for over 25 years, imparting a love of the redwood forest and natural world to countless visitors from around the world. Mia is an authority on monarch butterflies and serves as monarch-campaign coordinator for the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. She has recently been featured in numerous newspaper, television, and radio stories marking the centennial of Muir Woods.

Ken Lavin is outings and volunteer coordinator for Greenbelt Alliance. For 50 years Greenbelt Alliance has worked to preserve open space and promote livable communities throughout the Bay Area. Ken also works as a naturalist in Mount Diablo State Park for Diablo Nature Adventures, which provides outdoor environmental education for thousands of school children each year. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association and has led Sierra Club hikes for several years.

Cost of dinner and program is $23, including tax and tip. For a reservation send your check, payable to "Sierra Club", with your name, your telephone number, and the names of your guests, to:

Jane Barrett
170 Vicente Road
Berkeley, CA 94705
(510) 526-2494

Attendance is limited to the first 115 reservations received. Reserve early, as these programs do fill up. Reservation deadline is Mon., Feb. 18. There is no admittance for program only.