You are invited to the annual Kern River Valley Spring Nature Festival. This festival celebrates the biodiversity of the Kern River Valley and Southern Sierra Nevada. Come visit the Southern Sierra Nevada home to over 200 nesting species of birds, over 100 speicies of mammals, over 130 species of butterflies and over 2000 species of plants. The great diversity is a result of the area being at the intersection of 3 of North America's 10 Floristic Privinces.
This year our festival artist John Schmitt will present a new t-shirt design featuring "Spring Warblers of the Kern River Valley and Southern Sierra Nevada". Our Friday night Keynote Speaker is Bob Steele who will give a themed presentation about "Warblers: nesting, migrant, and vagrant of the Kern River Valley & Southern Sierra Nevada, plus bonus regional specialty birds. Saturday night's keynote speaker is John Muir Laws who will give a presentation on "An Evening Exploring the Natural World of the Sierra Nevada. Bob will give workshops on photography on Sat and John will offer workshops on painting nature and will be available to autograph his book "The Laws Field Guide fo the Sierra Nevada."
There are 30 different field trip choices - birding, wildflower, geology, natural history and butterlfies. Weekend workshops ar offered on bird photography, gardening with native plants, Native american uses of plants, how to draw nature, bird, reptile, amphibian, and plant idnetification and many more. There is also a demonstraton on bird banding, pond turtles and falconry.
Except for the paid field trips, workshops and dinners, the rest of the festival activities are free and sponsored by the Audubon California's Kern River Preserve, Bob Barnes and Associates, Kern River Valley Revitalization and Sequoia National Forest.
Printable schedule on the webstie
