Get Your Nature Groove On! with Judie Lincer

Week of August 9, 2025

Get Your Nature Groove on! Be Dazzled by Signs of Wildlife up Close and Personal
Examine a variety of nature items and explore some of nature’s mysteries and experiences right here at the Ranch. Be awed by this nature exploration presentation as Judie Lincer shares fascinating wildlife tales and tidbits.

Ethnobotany-How Native Americans Used Plants for Food, Shelter, Medicine, and more. Nature Field Experience
Ethnobotany is the study of a region’s plants and their uses through traditional knowledge of local culture and people. Join us as we explore areas of the Ranch and learn about which native plants were used for millennia for a variety of everyday uses around Rancho La Puerta. Touch, smell and even taste some plants and learn about how they were used by local native people. Wildlife is also dependent on native plants for food and shelter. We will also look at plants that are important habitat for animals that live here such as birds, reptiles, insects and mammals including foxes, bobcats, skunks, opossums and other animals that share our space here.

Let’s Get Batty! Bat Viewing & Facts (evening outdoor experience).

 

 

Judie Lincer, M.S. Ed.  is a Naturalist Educator with San Diego Audubon, who has over 30 years of teaching experience and guides hikes educating people about ecosystems, adaptations, ethnobotany (the study of a region’s plants and their uses through the traditional knowledge of a local culture). She is an enthusiastic speaker who inspires others to develop an appreciation of the environment. Judie is a Workshop and Tour Director for the California Native Plant Society-San Diego.