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1 March 2025 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm PST
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IN-PERSON PROGRAM
Ever taken a closer look at the blankets of green that cover logs, rocks, trunks, and the forest floor? This fuzzy green is known to most as simply “moss”, but in truth these plants are incredibly diverse (with over 900 species in BC!), and many can be learned and recognized with ease! Join us and bryologist Connor Wardrop to uncover the world of mosses and their friends. You’ll learn all about bryophytes — small plants called mosses, liverworts, and hornworts — and their ecology while getting to know some common species right here in Stanley Park.
LEADER BIO
Connor is a graduate student in Botany at the University of British Columbia, focusing on bryophyte biodiversity and cryptic speciation, currently focused on untangling the unrecognized local diversity within the liverwort genus Conocephalum (an unnamed species of which grows in Stanley Park!). He spends a lot of time in the herbarium at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum and has a passion for fieldwork, visiting and cataloguing interesting sites and species from along the B.C. coast to the northern and eastern B.C. borders, often supported through contract work focusing on rare species and/or un(der)surveyed sites. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Honour’s Plant Biology at UBC, where he was first introduced to the rich world of bryophytes, a passion he now loves to share with everyone who has a moment to pause and take a closer look.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Accessibility notes: This program will move at a gentle pace with few inclines on some uneven surfaces on South Creek Trail and near Beaver Lake (such as gravel and pavement) for up to 1.5 hours. If you have any questions about accessibility, please email Julia at publiced@stanleyparkecology.ca This program will meet at the bus loop by the Railway and Stanley Park Pavilion.
Meeting Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/4pGPez6QWg9ndy8j8 This program will likely end close to Beaver Lake, depending on the flow of the program and group size. Please give yourself 15 minutes to get back to the bus loop after the program.
Please arrive 5 minutes early to sign in.
Terms and Conditions
(1) Registration required - NO DROP-INS ARE ALLOWED. Fees for this program are based on a sliding scale – reduced fees are available for those with financial barriers.
(2) Cancellation policy – We offer partial refunds for program fees up to 7 days before the program. A 20% administration fee applies. Cancellations with less than the required notice are non-refundable. We do not refund fees for late or missed programs. Please request a refund by emailing publiced@stanleyparkecology.ca. You may also choose to support our public education programming by donating your registration fee.
(3) Weather – Our tours typically run rain or shine. Rarely, programs may be postponed or cancelled due extreme weather like high winds or extreme heat. We will alert you by email if the program needs to be rescheduled. If the program cannot be rescheduled, refunds will be offered with a 20% administration fee or you may choose to transfer your ticket to another program of the same value.
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The land on which we gather is the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm), Squamish (Skwxwú7mesh), and Tsleil-Waututh (səlilwətaɬ) Peoples. Their stewardship and respect for this land has carried forward for thousands of years long before settlers named it “Stanley Park”.