Natural Communities of Maine

Friday, May 13 from 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. | Online
Sunday, May 22 from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. | Bosarge Family Education Center

Learn how Maine’s native plants behave in their natural habitats. Guided by ecologist Ted Elliman, this comprehensive, two-day course will introduce students to Maine’s plant communities, their defining physical environments, the plants living in them, and the natural processes affecting them. First in the classroom and then in the field, learn the differences between communities like salt marshes, red maple swamps, bogs, and floodplain forests, and discover common plants as well as key plant adaptations. After day one’s online class, apply newfound knowledge on day two, in the living classroom of the Gardens and at a local land trust property.

Please note this class requires participants to show proof of having received all eligible Covid-19 vaccinations, as recommended for their age by the CDC, in order to participate. Because of the dynamic nature of this situation, we ask that you agree to abide by potential future changes in CMBG’s Covid-19 policy designed to address evolving public health recommendations.

Ted Elliman has been engaged in botanical work in New England and other northeastern states for more than thirty years. Most recently, he was a botanist and plant ecologist on the staff of the New England Wild Flower Society in Framingham, Massachusetts, where he conducted botanical inventories, natural community surveys, invasive species control programs, and helped publish Wildlfowers of New England.