On Saturday, January 25th, 2025, at 7 pm, the Friends of San Pedro Valley Park are pleased to welcome Tanya Baxter, botanist and ecologist. On a Zoom webinar, she will present her lecture entitled “Flora of the Northern Sierra Nevada: Botanical Encounters off the Beaten Path.” On over 1,146,000 acres, Plumas National Forest hosts some of the most diverse habitat in the northern Sierra Nevada range. Since 2023 Tanya Baxter and crews of consultant botanists have been documenting remote, rugged and often unvisited portions of the national forest around the area of Quincy for a fuels reduction mitigation inventory. Over the last few years several large fires have ravished the yellow pine forests of Plumas National Forest and drastically impacted the ecology and timber harvest. Numerous new rare plant populations were documented during these botanical surveys. This talk will cover plant communities, botanical highlights, scenic sections of the Feather River, and the unexpected field encounters. Join us for an illuminating lecture.
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