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  • January 2025

  • Sat 11

    Tour of the Alabama Hills

    January 11, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
    Alabama Hills Lone Pine, CA, United States

    This well-rounded tour touches on many of the aspects that make the Alabama Hills a unique destination. All programs are free. Attendees,

    Free
  • Sat 18

    Tour of the Alabama Hills

    January 18, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Alabama Hills Lone Pine, CA, United States

    This well-rounded tour touches on many of the aspects that make the Alabama Hills a unique destination. All programs are free. Attendees,

    Free
  • February 2025

  • Sat 1

    Alabama Hills Desert Plant Walk – A Sierra Forever Event

    February 1, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Alabama Hills Lone Pine, CA, United States

    Join a ranger and learn about the vegetation that grows in the desert environment of the Alabama Hills National Scenic Area. Please

    Free
  • Sat 8

    The Alabama Hills Backcountry – A Sierra Forever Event

    February 8, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
    Alabama Hills Lone Pine, CA, United States

    On a 3.5-mile moderate-to-strenuous walk, get breathtaking views of the Alabama Hills landscape as you discover geological oddities and learn lots of

    Free
  • March 2025

  • Sat 1

    Alabama Hills: Ask a Ranger – Popup Table Every Saturday at the Mobius Arch Loop Trail Parking Lot

    March 1, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Alabama Hills: Ask a Ranger – Popup Table Every Saturday at the Mobius Arch Loop Trail Parking Lot
    Alabama Hills Lone Pine, CA, United States

    EVERY SATURDAY IN MARCH, a Ranger will be available at a popup table from 10 a.m. to Noon at the Mobius Arch

    Free
  • Sat 8

    Alabama Hills: Ask a Ranger – Popup Table Every Saturday at the Mobius Arch Loop Trail Parking Lot

    March 8, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Alabama Hills: Ask a Ranger – Popup Table Every Saturday at the Mobius Arch Loop Trail Parking Lot
    Alabama Hills Lone Pine, CA, United States

    EVERY SATURDAY IN MARCH, a Ranger will be available at a popup table from 10 a.m. to Noon at the Mobius Arch

    Free
  • Sat 15

    Alabama Hills: Ask a Ranger – Popup Table Every Saturday at the Mobius Arch Loop Trail Parking Lot

    March 15, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Alabama Hills: Ask a Ranger – Popup Table Every Saturday at the Mobius Arch Loop Trail Parking Lot
    Alabama Hills Lone Pine, CA, United States

    EVERY SATURDAY IN MARCH, a Ranger will be available at a popup table from 10 a.m. to Noon at the Mobius Arch

    Free
  • Sat 15

    Alabama Hills: This Alien Desert – A Sierra Forever Interpretive Hike

    March 15, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Alabama Hills Lone Pine, CA, United States

    Meet Staff Member Ashley, who will show you some of the wonders of the desert plant life at the Alabama Hills. Discover

    Free
  • Sat 22

    Alabama Hills: Ask a Ranger – Popup Table Every Saturday at the Mobius Arch Loop Trail Parking Lot

    March 22, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Alabama Hills: Ask a Ranger – Popup Table Every Saturday at the Mobius Arch Loop Trail Parking Lot
    Alabama Hills Lone Pine, CA, United States

    EVERY SATURDAY IN MARCH, a Ranger will be available at a popup table from 10 a.m. to Noon at the Mobius Arch

    Free
  • Sat 22

    Alabama Hills: 1872 Lone Pine Earthquake – A Sierra Forever Interpretive Hike

    March 22, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
    Alabama Hills Lone Pine, CA, United States

    ** Meet at Whitney Portal Road Entrance Station for this event. ** Learn about an earthquake so big it reshaped the local

    Free
  • Sat 29

    Alabama Hills: Ask a Ranger – Popup Table Every Saturday at the Mobius Arch Loop Trail Parking Lot

    March 29, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Alabama Hills: Ask a Ranger – Popup Table Every Saturday at the Mobius Arch Loop Trail Parking Lot
    Alabama Hills Lone Pine, CA, United States

    EVERY SATURDAY IN MARCH, a Ranger will be available at a popup table from 10 a.m. to Noon at the Mobius Arch

    Free
  • Sat 29

    Tour of the Alabama Hills – A Sierra Forever Event

    March 29, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Alabama Hills Lone Pine, CA, United States

    Join Death Valley National Park Service Ranger Casey for an all-encompassing tour of the many things the Alabama Hills National Scenic Area

    Free
  • April 2025

  • Sat 5

    Alabama Hills – Geology Walk with Sierra Forever

    April 5, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Alabama Hills – Geology Walk with Sierra Forever
    Alabama Hills Lone Pine, CA, United States

    Meet Alabama Hills staff Ashley to discover the many forces that over great time created the unique Alabama Hills landscape we enjoy

    Free
  • Fri 11

    Alabama Hills: This Alien Desert – Interpretive Hike with Sierra Forever

    April 11, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Alabama Hills Lone Pine, CA, United States

    Meet Staff Member Ashley and learn about the fascinating behavior the desert plants here exhibit, while tying into the sci-fi movie history

    Free
  • Sat 19

    Alabama Hills: Bugs and Blooms – A Sierra Forever Nature Walk

    April 19, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
    Alabama Hills Lone Pine, CA, United States

    Flowers and insects are a match created over the ages. You can’t have one without the other! Join volunteers Nancy Hadlock and

    Free
  • Fri 25

    Alabama Hills – Geology Walk with Sierra Forever

    April 25, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am Alabama Hills – Geology Walk with Sierra Forever
    Alabama Hills Lone Pine, CA, United States

    Meet Alabama Hills staff Ashley to discover the many forces that over great time created the unique Alabama Hills landscape we enjoy

    Free
  • Sun 27

    Nature Journaling Workshop at Buckley Ponds

    April 27, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
    Owens River Bishop

    Sierra Forever is excited to announce that we will be offering a monthly FREE nature journaling workshop held at a different location

    Free
  • May 2025

  • Sat 10

    Alabama Hills – Nature Journaling with Sierra Forever

    May 10, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
    Alabama Hills Lone Pine, CA, United States

    Connect with the ecosystem in a creative way that fosters curiosity. Learn how to visually capture aspects of our desert while honing

    Free
  • Fri 30

    Alabama Hills – This Alien Desert

    May 30, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
    Alabama Hills Lone Pine, CA, United States

    Meet Sierra Forever staff member Ashley and learn about the fascinating behavior the desert plants here exhibit, while tying into some sci-fi

    Free
  • June 2025

  • Sat 14

    Swall Meadows Natural History: Birds, Bugs, Butterflies, and Blooms

    June 14, 2025 @ 6:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Eastern Sierra Land Trust 250 N. Fowler, Bishop, CA, United States

    Join ESLT for a special natural history event with conservation easement landowners in Swall Meadows. This is a great event for anyone

  • July 2025

  • Sat 12

    Sierra Forager: A Free Guided Plant Identification Walk

    July 12, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 12:30 pm Sierra Forager: A Free Guided Plant Identification Walk
    Rock Creek Sno Park California

    Come join White Mountain District Trail Ambassador, Jean, on a hike up East Fork of Rock Creek where you’ll learn about, and

  • Sat 26

    Dogbane Cordage Making Workshop

    July 26, 2025 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
    Eastern California Museum 155 N. Grant Street, Independence, CA, United States

    Join us for a traditional dogbane cordage-making workshop with local Indigenous educator Seth Tsosie. Participants will make their own dogbane cordage and

    $10.00
  • August 2025

  • Sat 2

    Sierra Forager: A Free Guided Plant Identification Walk

    August 2, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 12:30 pm Sierra Forager: A Free Guided Plant Identification Walk
    Rock Creek Sno Park California

    Come join White Mountain District Trail Ambassador, Jean, on a hike up East Fork of Rock Creek where you’ll learn about, and

  • Thu 7

    Opening Reception: Science in Nature Art Show Preview

    August 7, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    Inyo Council for the Arts 137 S. Main Street, Bishop, CA, United States

    UC White Mountain Research Center (WMRC) is celebrating 75 years of scientific achievement and education in the Eastern Sierra region. In following

    FREE
  • Fri 8

    Wildflower Walk in Little Lakes Valley

    August 8, 2025 @ 8:00 am - 11:00 am

    Do you love wildflowers? We sure do, and Little Lakes Valley is one of the best spots to see these beautiful displays

    Free
  • Sun 10

    Pikas in the Bristlecones Lecture

    August 10, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Ancient Bristlecone Pine Schulman Grove Bishop, CA, United States

    Come learn all about the latest research and ecology of the cutest mammal in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest with San Jose

    Free
  • Fri 15

    Birds & Bristlecones Nature Walk

    August 15, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am
    Ancient Bristlecone Pine Schulman Grove Bishop, CA, United States

    Join local naturalists for a one hour walk through the ancient bristlecone pine forest. Learn about the birds that call this forest

    Free
  • Fri 22

    Birds & Bristlecones Nature Walk

    August 22, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am
    Ancient Bristlecone Pine Schulman Grove Bishop, CA, United States

    Join local naturalists for a one hour walk through the ancient bristlecone pine forest. Learn about the birds that call this forest

    Free
  • Fri 29

    Birds & Bristlecones Nature Walk

    August 29, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am
    Ancient Bristlecone Pine Schulman Grove Bishop, CA, United States

    Join local naturalists for a one hour walk through the ancient bristlecone pine forest. Learn about the birds that call this forest

    Free
  • September 2025

  • Fri 12

    Wildflower Walk in Little Lakes Valley

    September 12, 2025 @ 8:00 am - 11:00 am

    Do you love wildflowers? We sure do, and Little Lakes Valley is one of the best spots to see these beautiful displays

    Free
  • October 2025

  • Sun 19

    UC White Mountain Research Center Open House

    October 19, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    White Mountain Research Center 3000 East Line Street, Bishop, CA, United States

    Join us for a community celebration to close out the year of festivities at the Owens Valley Station, 3000 E. Line St.,

    FREE
  • February 2026

  • Sat 21

    Wildlife Tracking Workshop

    February 21 @ 9:00 am - 2:30 pm

    Join professional wildlife tracker and mountain lion researcher Phil Johnston on February 21 and learn to read the stories of wild animals

    $15
  • March 2026

  • Sat 7

    Mule Deer Migration Corridor Field Trip

    March 7 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Eastern Sierra Land Trust 250 N. Fowler, Bishop, CA, United States

    Join Eastern Sierra Land Trust and the CA Department of Fish and Wildlife for an informative field trip in the Round Valley

    Free
  • April 2026

  • Sun 26

    BioBlitz and Native Bees at Blue Heron Farm

    April 26 @ 11:30 am - 2:30 pm
    Blue Heron Farm 475 Sierra Grande St, Bishop, CA, United States

    Join Eastern Sierra Land Trust and Blue Heron Farm for a native bee workshop and BioBlitz! A BioBlitz is a community effort

    Free
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