2024 Field Trips

This schedule is subject to change.  A detailed trip description will be posted under Upcoming Events (see sidebar) prior to the date of each trip.  Preregistration is required unless otherwise stated in the trip description.  Please register with the trip leader at least 1 week prior to the trip.

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Day Date Month Time Site Focus Leader County
Sat 13 Jan 10 Davidson-Arabia Mt. Nature Preserve Lichens Malcolm Hodges DeKalb
Sat 20 Jan 10 Davidson-Arabia Mt. Nature Preserve Lichens Malcolm Hodges DeKalb
Sat 3 Feb 10 Congaree National Park Wildflowers Jess Riddle SC
Sat 10 Feb   Florabundance Gardens Spring flowers, native plant nursery Deborah Sheppard McIntosh
Sat 10 Feb 10 Elachee Nature Center Winter plant ID Ren Oliver Hall
Sat 17 Feb 2 Stone Mountain Trout lilies Jane Trentin DeKalb
Sat 24 Feb 2 Pace’s Mill Unit, CRNRA Trout lilies Susan Hanson Cobb
Sat 2 March 10 Indian Springs State Park   Rich Reaves Butts
Sat 9 March   Wolf Creek Edgeworthia papyrifera Ren Oliver Rabun
Sat 9 March 9 Skidaway Island State Park Maritime forest, salt marsh Shannon Matzke Chatham
Sat 23 March   Pocket of Pigeon Mountain Early spring wildflowers Mike Christison, Richard Ware Walker
Sat 30 March   Radford Ravines   Sam Taylor Stephens
Sat 6 April   Savannah-Ogeechee Canal   Bobby Hattaway Chatham
  12-14 April   LaGrange Pilgrimage   Troup
Sat 20 April   Adairsville Spring ephemerals Jennifer Kearns Floyd
Sat 20 April   Gaskins Forest Education Center Day in the Woods   Berrien 
Sat 20 April 10 Forest Service Road 42   Rich Reaves Fannin
Sat 21 April   Crooked River State Park   Bobby Hattaway Camden
Fri 26 April 10 Mulky Gap Pink lady’s slippers Clayton Webster Union
Sat 27 April   Gaskins Forest Education Center Keying plants Richard Carter Berrien 
Sat 27 April   Sprewell Bluff WMA Turkeybeard and showy skullcap Hal Massie Meriwether, Talbot
Sat 27 April 10 Buckeye Creek Trail Wildflowers John Brower NC
Sun 28 April 9 Hambridge Center Cove Trail Wildflowers  John Brower Rabun
Sat 4 May 10 Till Ridge Cove   Rich Reaves Rabun
Sat 11 May 10 Germany Valley Large whorled pogonia, Pink lady’s slippers  Louis Schweizer Rabun
Sun 19 May   Flint River Shoals spider lilies paddle Hal Massie Upson, Talbot
Sat 8 June 10 Yonah Hike Early summer flowers Ren Oliver White
Sat 15 June 10 Currahee Mountain Diverse, species rich habitats of a Piedmont mountain  Jess Riddle, Jim Sullivan Stephens
Sat 20 July 10 Atlanta History Center Cherokee Garden Library Shannon Matzke Fulton
Sat 10 August   Sandhills WMA, roadsides Large white-fringed orchid, Pickering’s dawnflower Hal Massie Taylor
Sat 7 Sept 10 Ohoopee dunes   Ren Oliver Emanuel
Sat 14 Sept   Tillman Sand Ridge, Webb Wildlife Center Fall wildflowers and grasses Juliana Smith SC
Sat 21 Sept   Linwood Nature Preserve Grasslands, seeded pollinator mix Raina Singleton Hall
Sun 22 Sept   Cohutta Roadsides Fall flowers Rich Reaves Gilmer, Fannin
Sat 28 Sept   Sandhills WMA sandhills wildflowers Hal Massie Taylor
Sat 28 Sept   Georgia mountains Early fall wildflowers Mike Christison, Richard Ware Union, Towns
Sat 5 Oct 10 Florabundance Gardens Fall wildflowers, native plant nursery Deborah Sheppard McIntosh
Sat 5 Oct 10 Blue ridge parkway Fall wildflowers Ren Oliver NC
Sat 19 Oct 10 Altamaha WMA Fall flowers Ren Oliver Glynn
Fri 25 Oct 10 Appalachian Trail Fall colors Clayton Webster Towns
Mon 11 Nov   Pine Mountain Grass-of-Parnassus, fall color Hal Massie Harris, Meriwether
Fri 29 Nov   Pine Mountain Black Friday hike Hal Massie Harris