Thursday

For your arrival, please check in to your lodging at least an hour before the start of the evening program

5:30 pm Weekend Welcome & Introduction at the Tremper Manor House

6:00 pm Evening Indoor Presentation: The Flora of Ohio’s Deep South A visual presentation of some of the common, rare, and regionally significant species of wildflowers native to the Ohio River Valley. Meet at the Tremper Manor House
7:00 pm Depart for Simon Farm & Woods
8:00 pm Late Evening - Dusk Outdoor Program: Birding at Simon Pond and Simon Woods

Friday

8:00 am - 9:00 am Morning Breakfast, Coffee & Tea at Tremper Manor House. Enjoy a warm breakfast and pack your lunches for the day - we will have all the components you need. Please bring a daypack to carry your lunch in, a lunch bag, and a filled water bottle.

Depart for Ohio Hanging Rock Preserve in Eastern Scioto County

10:00 am Afternoon Guided Hike at Ohio Hanging Rock Preserve: Wildflowers & Birding. We will hike the 4-mile Lake Tight Trace Trail at this lush preserve renowned for its botanical diversity and its multitude of narrow ravines. The beginning of this trail, in particular, winds through a richly floriferous valley filled with wildflowers and ferns. We will also explore some of the off-trail botanical highlights along Skull Creek Hollow. Lunch will be at the preserve, possibly on the trail, so we recommend that you bring a large plastic bag or other waterproof “tarp” to sit on, so you don’t have wet pants while sitting down during our rest breaks. Registrants will eat their packed lunch in the field.

4:00 pm Depart Ohio Hanging Rock Preserve. Rest/Break and Dinner on your Own. Registrants will be provided options for dinner in town around the New Boston-Portsmouth-West Portsmouth area.

7:30 pm Evening Indoor Presentation at the Tremper Manor House: Natural History of the Scioto River Floodplains

Saturday

8:00 am - 9:00 am Morning Breakfast, Coffee & Tea at Tremper Manor House. Enjoy a warm breakfast and pack your lunches for the day - we will have all the components you need. Please bring a daypack to carry your lunch in, a lunch bag, and a filled water bottle.

Depart for Guided Tour of Shawnee State Forest

9:30 am Guided Caravan through Shawnee State Forest: Roadside Botany and Birding. Registrants will eat their packed lunch in the field.
1:00 pm Depart Shawnee State Forest for Kamama Prairie Preserve
2:00 pm Afternoon Field Trip at Kamama Prairie Preserve: Wildflowers & Birds of The Ohio Bluegrass Prairies We will finish the weekend visiting one of our most botanically rich and ecologically unique preserves, hiking the Prairie Fire Trail and looking at late spring flora of the dolomite barrens
5:00 pm Depart for Home.