2008 SCHEDULE
OF EVENTS
Kern River Preserve
Walks and Workshop Schedule At A Glance
Saturday,
May 3
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Basic Bird Photography Workshop (FEE)
Pre-registration required
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Bird Banding Demonstration at Kern
River Preserve
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Kern River Preserve Bird Walk
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USPS Cancellation Station
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Habitat enhancements and stewardship at the Kern River
Preserve
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Kern River Preserve Festival
Headquarters
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Southwestern Pond Turtle Demonstration
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Musical Entertainment Archie Logsdon
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Children’s Activities at the Kern
River Preserve
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Live Native Amphibians & Reptiles
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Official USPS
Kern Valley Spring Nature Festival Postal Station
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Musical Entertainment Out of the Blue
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Native Plant Gardening Workshop
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GPS
Workshop with Matt Reiter
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Musical Entertainment
Robbie the Piper and the Out of Kilters
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Nature Walk
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LIVE MUSIC Jam with various local artists
Sunday, May 4
-
Bird Banding Demonstration at Kern River Preserve
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Falconry Workshop
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Kern River Preserve Bird Walk
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Kern River Preserve Festival
Headquarters
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Southwestern Pond Turtle Demonstration
-
Musical Entertainment Archie Logsdon
-
Children’s Activities at the Kern
River Preserve
-
Live Native Amphibians & Reptiles
-
Official USPS
Kern Valley Spring Nature Festival Postal Station
-
Gardening with Native Plants at the Kern River Preserve
-
Musical Entertainment Out of the Blue
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Propagating native riparian plants
-
Native American use of Native Plants
-
Musical Entertainment
Robbie the Piper and the Out of Kilters
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Nature Walk
-
LIVE MUSIC Jam with various local artists
WHERE TO MEET: Kern River Preserve Headquarters
- 18747 Highway 178, Weldon.
WHAT TO BRING: No food is available at the
preserve. Bring food and water to last all day. Bring comfortable
walking shoes and layered clothing for weather that may range from
cloudless to rainy and cold to hot.
Click this link for maps and travel
information.
Click here for Hotel and Camping Information.
The Kernville Chamber of Commerce also can provide lodging information
call (760) 376-2629.
FRIDAY May 2nd
FESTIVAL INFORMATION BOOTH open sporadically throughout the
day ... until around 4 p.m.
SATURDAY, May
3rd
7 am-10 am+. Basic
Bird Photography Workshop with
Bob Steele. Learn how to set-up natural
habitat shots to photograph birds in a semi-controlled setting. Get tips
and techniques for using your camera more effectively. Minimum equipment
requirements: Digital or Film SLR camera, 300mm lens, teleconverter.
Meet at Kern River Preserve Headquarters in Weldon. See
Bob Steele's website. FEE: $30.
7 am - Noon. Bird Banding Demonstration at Kern
River Preserve. Join the Southern Sierra Research Station
to learn how banding is used to conserve birds, listen to the
heartbeat of a bird and otherwise observe birds up close & personal.
Observers may release birds after they are banded but otherwise this is
a show and tell event not a hands on workshop.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters
FREE
9am - 11am.
Kern River Preserve Bird Walk. A Kerncrest Audubon Society
volunteer will lead this walk through a portion of California’s largest
Fremont cottonwood and red willow riparian forest; a Globally Important
Bird Area. Kern River Preserve Headquarters is the best place to study
hummingbirds as they visit feeders in the yard. This trip will include a
visit to the bird banding station. Meet at the Festival Information
table at Kern River Preserve Headquarters in Weldon. Beginners welcome!
FREE
9 am -
11 am. Habitat enhancements and stewardship at the Kern River
Preserve. Join Preserve manager Reed Tollefson on a hike around the
restoration sites of the Kern River Preserve. Learn about the ongoing
efforts of habitat improvements and exotic plant removal that has
contributed to greater numbers of nesting species of birds. Meet at the
Kern River Preserve Headquarters. FREE
9 am - 5 pm. Kern River Preserve Festival
Headquarters. Kern River Preserve, Weldon: Children’s activities,
Information, Educational & Interactive Exhibits, Field Trip Departures,
Live animals, and more.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters. FREE (Donations welcome).
Vendors:
Audubon California, Bureau of Land Management - Ridgecrest, CNPS Kern County Chapter, Children's
Activities, Friends of the
Kern River Preserve, HerpEcology, Kern
Audubon Society, Kern River Parkway Foundation, Kern River Valley
Birding, Kerncrest Audubon Society, Nevada Birding: Wildly Unexpected, Sequoia
Forest Keepers, Southern Sierra Research Station, Spring Wings Bird Festival
(Fallon, Nevada)
10 am - 10:30 am.
Southwestern Pond Turtle Demonstration.
Learn about the Kern River Preserve's preservation efforts for this rare
species. Darrell Barnes will talk about turtle biology and share photos
and videos of the project. Question and answer
session to follow.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters FREE (Donations welcome).
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - Archie Logsdon. LIVE MUSIC with Archie
Logsdon, folksinger and environmental activist. Bring your folding chair or
blanket and sit down and enjoy.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters.
FREE.
10 am - 4 pm. Children’s Activities at the Kern
River Preserve. Charlotte Goodson Nature crafts, storytelling, live
snakes & frogs.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters FREE
10 am - 4 pm. Live Native Amphibians & Reptiles.
Educational presentations throughout the day by Herp-Ecology.
On display will be a wide variety of California reptiles and amphibians.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters. FREE
10 am - 4 pm. Official United States Postal Service
Kern Valley Spring Nature Festival Postal Station,
Kern River Preserve, Weldon. Steve Kenton, Weldon Postmaster, has once again
arranged to set up an official USPS postal station at
the Kern River Preserve
offering Special Festival Cancellation, stamped envelopes. These stamped envelopes are the "real deal" and may be
purchased for the price of a first class stamp. They may be used for
first class mailings over the following month or added to collectors'
stamp collections. Collectors from all over the world have contacted
Steve to order Kern Valley Festival special cancellations from past
years' festivals. You may also order and purchase envelopes with this
year's Spring Nature Festival cancellation from Steve during regular hours at the
Weldon Post Office. Contact Steve for the exact time period for picking
up your order.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Out of the Blue. LIVE MUSIC from Pat
Seamount, Mike Gallagher and Terry Harris with “Out of the Blue” Kern Valley
favorites will play acoustic folk, Irish, and traditional songs to delight the
crowds. Bring your folding chair or blanket and sit down to enjoy this talented
trio. Although this concert is FREE, Pat, Mike, and Terry intend that this is a
fundraiser on behalf of the Kern River Preserve and the Nature Festival so
donations are heartily welcome.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters.
FREE.
11 am - noon.
Native Plant Gardening Workshop.
Marya Miller, local gardening columnist and native plant
expert will talk about how to use native plants in your garden.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters FREE
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm. GPS
Workshop with Matt Reiter. Do you have a
GPS unit that you don't know how to work? Join the Kern River Preserve's
Land Steward and Doctoral Candidate in a lesson on using GPS, creating
waypoints and mapping with the unit. Several temporary GEO-CACHES will
be placed around the preserve, in a find and seek exercise. Plan on a
little hiking after the lecture portion.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters FREE
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. - Robbie the Piper and the Out of Kilters.
Robbie McRobinson and his local cohorts, Georgie and Bob Bergeron, and Jackie
Smith have been entertaining at the Preserve for several years. They will be
remembered from the Vulture Festival in 2003 where they introduced the Band “Rob
the Piper with Carrion Luggage”. The Band features an eclectic mix of singing,
recorder, mandolin, guitar and drum playing to accompany Irish, folk, and blues
tunes. This year, Robbie in full Scotch regalia will be joined by the same gang
in traditional garb.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters.
FREE
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm. Nature Walk. Learn about
the plants, trees, birds and animals that are all part of the Kern River
Preserve.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters FREE
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - LIVE MUSIC Jam with various local artists.
Open Jam w/Jay Barush, Paul Webb, Jason O’Donnell, Lottie Angelsea, Pat
Seamount, Terry Harris, other drop in artists and the remains of Carrion
Luggage.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters FREE.
SUNDAY, May 4th
7 am - Noon. Bird Banding Demonstration at Kern
River Preserve. Join the Southern Sierra Research Station
to learn how banding is used to conserve birds, listen to the
heartbeat of a bird and otherwise observe birds up close & personal.
Observers may release birds after they are banded but otherwise this is
a show and tell event not a hands on workshop.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters
FREE
9
am - 10 am. Falconry Workshop.
Bill Foster, KRP volunteer and expert hawk handler will
demonstrate the ancient art of falconry.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters FREE
9am - 11am.
Kern River Preserve Bird Walk. A Kerncrest Audubon Society
volunteer will lead this walk through a portion of California’s largest
Fremont cottonwood and red willow riparian forest; a Globally Important
Bird Area. Kern River Preserve Headquarters is the best place to study
hummingbirds as they visit feeders in the yard. This trip will include a
visit to the bird banding station. Meet at the Festival Information
table at Kern River Preserve Headquarters in Weldon. Beginners welcome!
FREE
9 am - 5 pm. Kern River Preserve Headquarters.
Kern River Preserve, Weldon: Children’s activities, Information,
Educational & Interactive Exhibits, Field Trip Departures, Live animals,
and more.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters FREE (Donations welcome).
Vendors:
Audubon California,
Buena Vista Group Sierra Club, Bureau of Land Management, CNPS Kern County Chapter, Children's
Activities, FACT, Friends of the
Kern River Preserve, HerpEcology, Kern River
Parkway Foundation, Kern River Valley Birding, Kerncrest Audubon
Society, Nevada Birding: Wildly Unexpected, Optics for Birding, Sequoia
Forest Keepers, Southern Sierra Research Station, Spring Wings Bird Festival
(Fallon, Nevada), Tule Elk Reserve, Windwolves Preserve
10 am - 10:30 am.
Southwestern Pond Turtle Demonstration.
Learn about the Kern River Preserve's preservation efforts for this rare
species. Darrell Barnes will talk about turtle biology and share photos
and videos of the project.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters FREE (Donations welcome).
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - Archie Logsdon. LIVE MUSIC with Archie
Logsdon, folksinger and environmental activist. Bring your folding chair or
blanket and sit down and enjoy. FREE.
10 am - 4 pm. Children’s Activities at the Kern
River Preserve. Nature crafts, storytelling, live snakes & frogs.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters
FREE
10 am - 4 pm. Live Native Amphibians & Reptiles.
Kern River Preserve. Educational presentations throughout the day by
Herp-Ecology. On display will be a wide variety of California reptiles
and amphibians.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters FREE
11
am - noon. Gardening with Native Plants
at the Kern River Preserve. Marya Miller,
local native plant columnist will introduce visitors to the idea of
gardening with local natives.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters FREE
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Out of the Blue. LIVE MUSIC from Pat
Seamount, Mike Gallagher and Terry Harris with “Out of the Blue” Kern Valley
favorites will play acoustic folk, Irish, and traditional songs to delight the
crowds. Bring your folding chair or blanket and sit down to enjoy this talented
trio. Although this concert is FREE, Pat, Mike, and Terry intend that this is a
fundraiser on behalf of the Kern River Preserve and the Nature Festival so
donations are heartily welcome. FREE.
Noon - 1 pm. Propagating native riparian plants with Matt Reiter.
Learn how to grow native trees and other riparian plants
through various propagation techniques. FREE
1 pm - 2 pm.
Native American use of Native Plants.
Carol Wermuth, Native American expert will talk about
traditional uses of native plants.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters FREE
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. - Robbie the Piper and the Out of Kilters.
Robbie McRobinson and his local cohorts, Georgie and Bob Bergeron, and Jackie
Smith have been entertaining at the Preserve for several years. They will be
remembered from the Vulture Festival in 2003 where they introduced the Band “Rob
the Piper with Carrion Luggage”. The Band features an eclectic mix of singing,
recorder, mandolin, guitar and drum playing to accompany Irish, folk, and blues
tunes. This year, Robbie in full Scotch regalia will be joined by the same gang
in traditional garb.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters.
FREE
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm, Nature Walk. Learn about
the plants, trees, birds and animals that are all part of the Kern River
Preserve. FREE
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - LIVE MUSIC Jam with various local artists.
Open Jam w/Jay Barush, Paul Webb, Jason O’Donnell, Lottie Angelsea, Pat
Seamount, Terry Harris, other drop in artists and the remains of Carrion
Luggage.
Kern River Preserve Headquarters FREE.
This year's SPRING NATURE FESTIVAL will feature Friday through Monday
Kern River Valley and Southern Sierra Nevada birding and natural history
field trips. Destinations will include the GLOBALLY IMPORTANT BIRD AREAS
of the Kern River Preserve, Sequoia National Forest, and South Fork
Valley. The NATIONALLY IMPORTANT BIRD AREA of Butterbredt Spring will
also be a destination. Let experts lead you to experience the region's
"among the best in the west" bird migration and natural history
phenomena. There is no better time to capture this experience than the
end of April. Visit SPRING NATURE FESTIVAL web pages periodically as new
field trips will likely be added between now and SPRING NATURE FESTIVAL
weekend itself.
