People, Activities & Events

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Upcoming Activities

Tuesday, May 10, 2005
8:00 a.m. Hike Earthquake Valley Panorama 3 hours
Join Volunteer naturalists, Paul Larson and Mary Ekelund, for a moderate 4 mile Hike up Plum Canyon to an overlook high over Earthquake Valley. Discover Some interesting plants and geological fe features along the way. Meet at the Entrance to Plum Canyon off Highway 78.

Wednesday, May 18, 2005
3:30 p.m. Hike Roving Naturalist in Borrego Palm Canyon 2 1/2 Hours
Volunteer Naturalist Joe Hopkins will be roaming the Borrego Palm Canyon Trail searching for Bighorn Sheep and other interesting features along the trail. Look for him as you hike to the Palm Oasis. As an experienced naturalist, he can answer many of your questions about the park. If Bighorn are about, he is sure to find them! This is not a guided hike.

Thursday, May 19, 2005
3:45 p.m. Talk- Animal of the Month 1 Hour
Volunteer Naturalist Joe Hopkins will feature vegetarian lizards . This will not be a slide show or fancy presentation just basic natural history and a chance to ask questions about desert animals, common, rare, or even animals absent from our Colorado Desert.

Saturday, May 21, 2005
8:00 a.m. Hike Roving Naturalist in Borrego Palm Canyon 3 Hours
Volunteer Naturalist Joe Hopkins will be roaming the Borrego Palm Canyon Trail searching for Bighorn Sheep and other interesting features along the trail. Look for him as you hike to the Palm Oasis. As an experienced naturalist, he can answer many of your questions about the park. If Bighorn are about, he is sure to find them! This is not a guided hike.

Thursday, May 26, 2005
3:45 p.m. Talk- Animal of the Month 1 Hour
Volunteer Naturalist Joe Hopkins will feature vegetarian lizards. This will not be a slide show or fancy presentation just basic natural history and a chance to ask questions about desert animals, common, rare, or even animals absent from our Colorado Desert.

ALL PROGRAMS ARE FREE OF CHARGE. PROGRAMS ARE HELD AT THE VISITOR CENTER UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED. DOGS ARE NOT PERMITTED ON TRAILS OR TOURS. PLEASE CALL AHEAD FOR SPECIAL NEEDS ACCOMMODATION, (760) 767-4205.

 

Meet the Staff

George T. Jefferson, District Paleontologist, Colorado Desert District Stout Research Center, Department of Parks and Recreation, Borrego Springs, California.

George heads up the State Park's paleontology program out of the Colorado Desert District Stout Research Center.  For much of his professional career George was Associate Curator of the Rancho La Brea "tar pits" fossil collections at the George C. Page Museum in Los Angeles. He continues to expand the park’s paleontology knowledge base through exploration of new finds, by organizing and directing the volunteer certification program, and by leading field trips to share the paleontolic and geologic legacy of the park.

 
 

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