Umpqua Outback

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This is a hybrid course taught partly online and partly during a 6 day bus tour of Southwestern Oregon and Northern California. Resources for learning botanical terminology, plant evolution, diversity and classification, common plant family characteristics, and pollination ecology will be provided online. The use of cameras, scanners and multimedia software for documenting plant collections will also be discussed. The bus tour will emphasize the use of botanical keys to identify native trees, shrubs, wildflowers, and other plants while touring through regional plant communities. The tour will leave the UCC campus and will likely include stops at the North Umpqua River, Crater Lake National Park, Klamath Lake, Lava Beds National Monument, MacArthur-Burney Falls State Park, Lassen Peak National Park, the Trinity River, Redwood National Park, Oregon Caves National Monument, the Siskiyou Mts., and other sites of botanical interest. Students should be reasonably fit and prepared to hike several miles over the course of the tour on easy to moderately difficult trails. A fee is required to cover transportation, food and camping on the bus.