Join our Guided Nature Walk and LBA Woods iNaturalist Project on Sunday May 20 9-11:30

If you've never explored the network of trails in Olympia's LBA Woods, now's your chance to do so with two very talented scientists.

Ted Thomas, botanist/biologist/ecologist (USFWS, freshly retired) will be your guide. Ted is an extremely knowledgeable raconteur who has been walking in the LBA Woods for decades and knows the stories of the plants and the plant community well.

He'll be joined by Jawad Frangieh, who is savvy with iNaturalist app we'll be using to collect data on the plants we'll observe on the walk. Jawad is currently serving in AmeriCorps with the USFWS as a Conservation Educator and Scientist and uses iNaturalist for fun and for organizing citizen scientist projects like the LBA Woods Project.

If you would like to be part of the LBA Woods project, go to inaturalist.org to create an account, download the free app to your phone.

This walk will be on trails in the eastern side of the park--new for those of you who joined any of our last three guided walks. Meet in the east (main) parking lot of LBA Park on Morse-Merryman Rd. SE Olympia at 9 a.m. for this fascinating morning appreciating, understanding, and documenting the wonders of the woods.

Everyone is welcome and the event is rain or shine.