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Welcome to ElderwiseIn-person, online, and hybrid classes Spring Term 2025 Registration is Open > Nature

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  • Mud Lake Bog Hike (Repeat)

  • This class has reached the enrollment limit.  Please click the "Add to Waitlist" button below.
  • OFFSITE TOUR: This tour, because of so much rain, has been changed to Eddy Discovery Center

    This hike is limited to 8 attendees. 

    Gerald E Eddy Discovery Center
    17030 Bush Rd, Chelsea, MI 48118

    This hike is limited to 8 attendees. 
    Note: Because the enrollment is limited and Tom’s hikes are popular, he will be guiding this same exact hike on May 16.

    Please let the Elderwise office know if you are unable to attend this tour. This gives students on the waitlist an opportunity to join. It also helps the onsite class assistant.

     

    Tom Friedlander is a retired University of Michigan trained tree-and-shrub taxonomist who spent 38 years teaching and coaching at Greenhills School in Ann Arbor. Driving directions and parking instructions will be emailed to class registrants a few days before the tour.

     

  • Fee: $15.00

  • Instructor: Tom Friedlander

    Capacity Remaining: -1

  • Dates: 5/30/2025 - 5/30/2025

    Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  • Sessions: 1

    Days: F

  • Building: Offsite

    Room: Mud Lake Bog

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  • The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker 

  • HYBRID: In the classroom and online. A Zoom link will be sent to all one day before class.

    Ray Stocking has new revelations to share in this fascinating program on one of the first great showdowns in America – the confrontation between the need to fulfill the demand for fashion, land, and timber, and the desire to save the “Lord God” bird, the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. It has been almost 20 years since the “rediscovery” of this stunning bird, and the expert backlash that immediately followed that announcement. With Ray’s guidance, we will have an opportunity to review what has happened since, and what lies ahead. Join us for this important chapter in the continuing saga of commerce versus conservation in America. Ray Stocking is a former president of the Washtenaw Audubon Society, a former board chair of the Michigan Audubon Board of Directors, and a passionate bird watcher. Ray lives in Ann Arbor and birds there…as well as everywhere else.

     

  • Fee: $15.00

  • Instructor(s): Ray Stocking

  • Dates: 6/4/2025 - 6/4/2025

    Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

  • Sessions: 1

    Days: W

  • Building: Hybrid: In-Person and Online

    Room: Vineyard Cafe and Zoom

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  • Tour of Great Lakes Gardens and Conservatory 

  • OFFSITE TOUR: Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 North Dixboro Road, Ann Arbor, MI
    Enrollment: This class is limited to 25 attendees. A waitlist will be available.

    Fee: Member $10, Nonmember $5      
    Plus and additional $10 for entrance fee.


    Note: Parking is $4 for two hours, payable at the kiosk

    Matthaei Botanical Gardens education team members will lead an interactive tour of the Great Lakes Gardens and Conservatory to explore plants from the unique plant communities in the Great Lakes Region and from around the world. The Great Lakes Gardens re-create our region’s natural habitats such as open dunes, alvar, and prairies. We will see species found in Michigan and nowhere else in the world, as well as native orchids, and prairie wildflowers. In the gardens, a series of accessible pathways, boardwalks, and overlooks invites up-close views of plants we might never encounter in the wild, while interpretation illuminates the role conservation plays in protecting this unique diversity. Walking shoes are recommended. Stations where one can sit and rest will be available throughout the tour. The tour will be led by Matthaei-Nichols Professional Docent StaffDriving and parking directions will be sent to class registrants a few days before the tour.

     

  • Fee: $15.00

  • Instructor(s): Gardens Matthaei Botanical

  • Dates: 6/13/2025 - 6/13/2025

    Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  • Sessions: 1

    Days: F

  • Building: Offsite

    Room: Matthaei Botanical Gardens

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