Lynn Levine

(Rain Date: Sunday July 21)

Participants will learn skills to help them to identify ferns using Lynn’s book, Identifying Ferns the Easy Way: A Pocket Guide to Common Ferns in the Northeast, winner of the 2019 IPNE Informational Nonfiction Book Award. A copy of the book is included in the workshop fee.

The first part of the workshop will introduce you to the magical world of ferns. You will begin to learn about the keys to fern identification. For the balance of our time, we will walk through the Museum’s George Aiken WIldflower Trail and explore the wide variety of ferns growing there.

Since receiving her masters in 1978, Lynn Levine has been a consulting forester, environmental educator and naturalist. She was the first woman consulting forester in the Northeast.  Lynn has created more than a dozen interpretive nature trails, with her most recent one incorporating an Abenaki perspective. Lynn has worked with children and adults in classrooms and libraries, and has taken thousands of people into the forest to share her love of nature, and to spur others to feel the same. She has found that connecting people to the forest through teaching about tracking, ferns and trees are powerful ways to spark and enhance that bond. 

In addition to Identifying Ferns the Easy Way, Levine has co-authored: Working with Your Woodland: A Landowner’s Guide and Mammal Tracks and Scat: Life-Size Tracking Guide. She is also the author of: Mammal Tracks and Scat: Life-Size Pocket Guide, Snow Secrets and Is it Time, Yet? Please visit Heartwoodpress.com for more information about her books.

All of Lynn’s books will be available at discounted pricing on the day of the workshop.