Frank Perry, local geologist, paleontologist, and historian will be teaching a sold-out class on the Urban Geology of Santa Cruz this Saturday. Frank’s tour is part of the Museum’s Connect With Nature series that brings enrichment classes to adults in all four seasons. Learn more about upcoming Connect With Nature Classes…
The Banana Slug String Band will return to the Museum on Saturday, August 4 for the grand finale of the Families In Nature Summer Saturday Series. Their musical presentation, “Down by the Creek,” will celebrate newly restored Pilkington Creek. We will have native California seedlings for kids to plant plus craft activities, face painting, food, and fun! The Penny Ice Creamery will be here dishing up delectable cones alongside Blood, Sweat & Tacos. And Chevrolet of Watsonville will be here offering the Museum $5 for every test-drive of their electric Volt. Much gratitude goes out to Vision Recycling for sponsoring this event, and to KION for creating this Familes In Nature promotional commercial.
We need your cones! The Museum is collecting tree cones from all kinds of California conifers for our fall exhibit about naturalists Daniel Miller and Randal Morgan. Please bring cones to the Museum during operating hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 10am – 5pm. Thank you!!!
The Santa Cruz City Council passed ordinances 2012-08 and 2012-09 on Tuesday, mandating that single use plastic bags and polystyrene packaging will be banned within Santa Cruz City limits starting in spring of 2013. Plastic is a very dangerous marine debris, affecting species of birds, fish, turtles, and whales. This bag ban could have wide reaching impacts improving the health of Monterey Bay. Read more about this ban and others like it at Save Our Shores and Californians Against Waste.
Get ready for the rainy season! The Resource Conservation District of Monterey will offer a free workshop on Saturday, August 4 in Seaside about greening stormwater runoff around your home. Learn more…
