Note: Preregistration is required. Trip is limited to 6 participants. Please email Sam Taylor at: Field Trip Leader: Sam Taylor Description: We will explore a small but incredibly diverse rich cove ecosystem situated on a tributary to the Chauga River. This area is incredibly unique as it is one of the many rich coves […]
Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 1:30-3:30 pm, Chattahoochee River Natl Recreation Area, Cochran Shoals, Sope Creek: Sibley Pond, Cobb County
Note: Preregistration is requested. Please email Carol Schneier at: Field Trip Leader: Carol Schneier Description: We will explore plants in a shallow pond. Location & Directions: I-75 to I-285 East. Take exit #24 and go North on Riverside Dr. to Johnson Ferry Rd. Turn NW (left), cross the river and turn west (left) at second traffic […]
Saturday, April 25, 2026, 9:00 am, Lake Conasauga and Cohutta Roadsides, Floyd County
Preregistration is required. Trip limited to 15 people. Please email Rich Reaves at: Field Trip Leader: Rich Reaves Description: After a brief roadside excursion at our meeting place, we will drive to Lake Conasauga and walk the trail around the lake (to get there ahead of the crowd). Then we will make multiple roadside stops […]
Sunday, April 26, 2026, 10:00 am, Spring Wildflowers of Sandhills WMA, Taylor County
NOTE: Preregistration is required. To register, email Description: This will be an unusual trip to see spring wildflowers in the Fall Line sandhills. We normally visit the sandhills in the fall when there is a dizzying array of flowering plants. However, there are some good spring-flowering wildflowers in this area, as well. We should […]
Tuesday, May 5, 2026, 1:30-3:30 pm, Vickery Creek: Cove Forest, Fulton County
Preregistration is requested. Please email Carol Schneier at: Field Trip Leader: Carol Schneier Description: We will explore a cove forest above Big Creek for a couple of hours, identifying overstory trees, midstory and shrubby plants comprising this mesic forest, as well as discussing its dynamics over time. Location & Directions: GA-400N Exit 6; […]
Saturday, May 9, 2026, 10:00 am, West Wolf Creek Road, Union County
NOTE: Preregistration is required. Trip limited to 15 people. Please email Rich Reaves at: Field Trip Leader: Rich Reaves Description: will start by walking along the road to view some wildflowers, including pink ladyslippers. Then we will start the main hike along an old Forest Service road. Here we expect to see a lot of […]
Saturday, May 16, 2026, 10 am-2 pm, Curtis Property, Berrien County
Preregistration is required. Please email Brandi Griffin at: Field Trip Leader: Brandi Griffin Description: We’ll be exploring the Curtis Property in Berrien County, Georgia a newly introduced field trip site with a diversity of habitats all within easy walking distance. The landscape includes three distinct ecosystem zones: a dry, sandy xeric area dotted with […]
Sunday, May 17, 2026, 10:00 am, Canoe Trip to See Shoals Spiderlilies on the Flint River, Upson County
NOTE: Preregistration is required. Description: The purpose of this paddle on the Flint River will be to get up close and personal with the shoals spiderlily, or Cahaba lily, Hymenocallis coronaria, a Threatened species in Georgia. At normal water levels, the lilies are difficult to reach by wading into the river, so we are going […]
Saturday, May 23, 2026, 10:00 am, Reed Branch Wet Meadow, Towns County
NOTE: Preregistration is required. Please email Hal Massie at: Field Trip Leaders: Hal Massie, Rich Reaves, Bruce Roberts Description: Reed Branch Wet Meadow is a Nature Conservancy Preserve that protects the only natural population of Federally Endangered green pitcher plant, Sarracenia oreophila, in Georgia. It is also the last example in Georgia of a […]
Sunday, May 24, 2026, 9:00 am, Brasstown Seeps, Towns County
NOTE: Preregistration is required. Please email Rich Reaves at: Field Trip Leader: Rich Reaves Description: This trip will be mostly off-trail, as we visit the site where we come for large-leaf grass-of-Parnassus in early October. We should see leaves of this species, but the blooms are months away. We will work our way up […]