January
No field trip this month.
February
LNPS annual meeting, February 7-9. Please visit their web site at www.lnps.org.
Previous Field Trips
Mary Ann Brown Preserve, Saturday, November 11, 2017
For November, we enjoyed a nature walk at the Nature Conservancy’s property north of Baton Rouge: the Mary Ann Brown Preserve. The preserve features a magnolia/beech forest on Loess soil with ravines and a meandering creek, LOTS of fascinating mushrooms when the weather is right, and a remnant of a former pine plantation.
Abita Creek Flatwoods Preserve, October 28, 2017
Join us for a field trip to the Nature Conservancy’s property near Abita Springs: the Abita Creek Flatwoods Preserve. The preserve features a longleaf pine restoration as well as pitcher plant bogs. Some of you have been with us previously to the Abita preserve. We plan to follow the nature walk with an Octoberfest visit to the Abita Brewery, in Abita Springs, for lunch. Except for the price of lunch, this event will be free for CANPS members and $5 for non-members.
If you would like to carpool there, we will meet at 7:45 a.m. for carpooling at the parking lot outside of the Coffee Call on College Drive, which is to the left of Office Depot. If we leave there at 8:00 a.m., we would arrive at the preserve at about 9:20 a.m.
If you wish to meet us at the preserve, it should take about one hour and 20 minutes to get there from Baton Rouge. Take I-12 past Hammond. Pass Highway 190 (Covington/Mandeville). The next exit from I-12 is the Abita Springs/Mandeville Exit (Exit 65, the first exit east of Hwy. 190, Causeway Blvd.) go north on LA Hwy 59 about 5 miles until you get to the town of Abita Springs. At the traffic circle, take the Level St. exit (1/2 around the circle) which will curve left and turn into La. Hwy 435. The Abita preserve is approximately 4.5 miles from the traffic circle. It is just past 2 closely-spaced bridges. You will see signs on the right with golf names, like Par, Birdie, and Eagle. The entrance to the preserve is on the left across from Green Street. If you get to the Abita Springs Golf and Country Club entrance, you have gone too far.
For November, we enjoyed a nature walk at the Nature Conservancy’s property north of Baton Rouge: the Mary Ann Brown Preserve. The preserve features a magnolia/beech forest on Loess soil with ravines and a meandering creek, LOTS of fascinating mushrooms when the weather is right, and a remnant of a former pine plantation.
Abita Creek Flatwoods Preserve, October 28, 2017
Join us for a field trip to the Nature Conservancy’s property near Abita Springs: the Abita Creek Flatwoods Preserve. The preserve features a longleaf pine restoration as well as pitcher plant bogs. Some of you have been with us previously to the Abita preserve. We plan to follow the nature walk with an Octoberfest visit to the Abita Brewery, in Abita Springs, for lunch. Except for the price of lunch, this event will be free for CANPS members and $5 for non-members.
If you would like to carpool there, we will meet at 7:45 a.m. for carpooling at the parking lot outside of the Coffee Call on College Drive, which is to the left of Office Depot. If we leave there at 8:00 a.m., we would arrive at the preserve at about 9:20 a.m.
If you wish to meet us at the preserve, it should take about one hour and 20 minutes to get there from Baton Rouge. Take I-12 past Hammond. Pass Highway 190 (Covington/Mandeville). The next exit from I-12 is the Abita Springs/Mandeville Exit (Exit 65, the first exit east of Hwy. 190, Causeway Blvd.) go north on LA Hwy 59 about 5 miles until you get to the town of Abita Springs. At the traffic circle, take the Level St. exit (1/2 around the circle) which will curve left and turn into La. Hwy 435. The Abita preserve is approximately 4.5 miles from the traffic circle. It is just past 2 closely-spaced bridges. You will see signs on the right with golf names, like Par, Birdie, and Eagle. The entrance to the preserve is on the left across from Green Street. If you get to the Abita Springs Golf and Country Club entrance, you have gone too far.
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