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Great Basin Butterflies
By SFI butterflies instructor Dana Ross A visit to Steens Mountain and the Alvord Desert is always worth the time and effort. This past July, …
Early in the Field
Spring is about to awaken at Siskiyou Field Institute. While young students are learning about our watershed at Mt. Ashland SnowSchool, preparations are under way …
MACROLICHENS
Hello, Rose here! Like your lichens? When I arrived at SFI, I knew zilch about lichens. Before I left SFI, I learned how important lichens …
Artful Butterflies and Moths by Goly Ostovar
I look forward to the Butterflies of the Siskiyou Region workshop each year, It is a fun way to learn about butterflies and moths at a comfortable …
Cladonia lichens and Dr. Seuss
SFI will again offer “Delving into the Lichen Genus Cladonia” with Dr. Daphne Stone on April 11-12, 2017. By Kathleen Pyle, SFI Program and Marketing …
Native Bees of the Siskiyous by Suzie Savoie
First published on Suzie’s Klamath-Siskiyou Seeds blog on June 18, 2016. All photos by Suzie Savoie. Have you ever wanted to learn more about native bees …
Crash Course in Flowering Plant Families
By Emily Ferrell I pulled into the SFI parking lot late, the full moon bathing the grounds in a crisp, white glow. No headlamp …
Gifts of the Wild
Photos and Text by Vivian Toll “There is still somewhere deep within you a beast shouting that the earth is exactly what it wanted” – …
Reflections of Journeying into the Cryptic Red Buttes Wilderness with Scot Loring
About author Tyler Wauters: I have lived in the Applegate Valley since 2008 and consider myself a local. Not a local in the sense that …
“Spirit of the Forest” by Debbie Catalina
Photos by Kathleen Pyle June fifth. Still spring. Delicious mist blanketing the valley. My car hugging the twisting, curving road, the road hugging the higher …