<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><i>The Jepson Herbarium Public Program presents:</i></font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Flora, Geology, and Paleontology of the South Diablo Range, March 27 – 30, 2008</b></font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">with instructor <b>Julie Anne Hopkins</b> and guest instructors Hilde Schwartz, James Weigand, and Ed Mercurio </font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Location: Monocline Ridge, Tumey Hills, and Panoche Hills</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> The southern portion of the Diablo Range (California's Coast Ranges) hosts incredibly diverse geology, soil composition, and a wide-ranging elevation gradient (200 – 5,000ft), thus the flora of this region boasts a number of rare and endemic plants. With much of the acreage of the Southern Diablo range either privately owned or popular for off-road vehicle use on portions of public lands, the region has been the subject of land management and wildlife conservation attention. This workshop will introduce the unique vegetation, geology, and land use issues of the arid Tumey Hills, Panoche Hills, and Monocline Ridge, as well as the identification of rare and common plants. Expect a desert-like experience when we observe northern extensions of several Mojave plant species as we hike in the Monvero Dunes on the Monocline Ridge. If time and weather permit a trip to the New Idria serpentine area will be included.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> Course fee ($450/$475) includes campground fees, meals, and transportation for the duration of the workshop. Camping is at Mercey Hot Springs, a developed campground with flush toilets and running water. For more information or to register for this workshop, please visit the Jepson Herbarium Public Programs website (<a href="http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/workshops/"><font color="#0030e2" style="color: #0030e2"><u>http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/workshops/</u></font></a>) or call or email Anna Larsen ((510) 643-7008, <a href="mailto:alarsen@berkeley.edu"><font color="#0030e2" style="color: #0030e2"><u>alarsen@berkeley.edu</u></font></a>).</font></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Anna Larsen</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Coordinator of Public Programs</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Jepson Herbarium, UC Berkeley</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">1001 Valley Life Sciences Bldg</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Berkeley, CA 94720-2465</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">phone <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(510) 643-7008</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">fax <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(510) 643-5390</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">email <a href="mailto:alarsen@berkeley.edu"><font color="#0021e7" style="color: rgb(0, 33, 231); "><u>alarsen@berkeley.edu</u></font></a></font></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>