Friends of Albany Hill completed mural work at the Children’s Center, 720 Jackson St. The AUSD board meeting on January 10, 2023 spotlighted the mural with a short slide show and the history and purpose presented by artist Carole Fitzgerald. (Watch the presentation; starts at 10:33)
Butterflies of Albany Hill mural project – Essig Museum of Entomology
The Essig Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Berkeley features the new Butterflies of Albany Hill Mural project in this article, with several photos of the mural and muralists: https://essig.berkeley.edu/albany-hill-mural/
Video presentation from the AlbanyKALB channel on YouTube:
Does the preservation and appreciation of the natural world only happen in large faraway wilderness areas, or are pockets of wildland in our backyards just as important (and possibly more so)? And what is the reciprocal value for those of us fortunate enough to have ready access to such “islands in an urban sea”?
Join biologist Barbara Ertter, one of the original members of Friends of Albany Hill, for a discussion on the ecologically unique features of Albany Hill and the site stewardship program that developed to protect them.
Barbara Ertter is Curator of Western North American Botany at the University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley. Primary research interests in- clude western floristics (including the East Bay), systematics of several members of the rose family (e.g., Potentilla, Ivesia, Rosa), and the history of western botany. Significant publications include an updated edition of The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Mount Diablo, California (2002), Annotated Checklist ofthe East Bay Flora (2013), and treatments of Potentilla, Ivesia, Horkelia, Rosa, and related genera for The Jepson Manual, Vascular Plants of California (2012) and Flora of North America (2015). She currently lives in Boise, Idaho.
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