THE WONDROUS WOODRAT! … MICE & MOLES, SHREWS & VOLES & GOPHERS IN HOLES!

LINDA HAWLEY’S NATURE ADVENTURES! FREE—ages 4-10 with an adult Not your ordinary sewer rats, woodrats are the original PACKRATS, building huge, intricate houses that last for centuries! How do they build them? What makes them & their habitats so fascinating? Their distant cousins—mice, moles, shrews, voles & gophers—are considered to be PESTS, but do they have any redeeming qualities at all? ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Linda Hawley, Ed.M., delights children & adults alike with the animated enthusiasm she brings to her monthly programs by entertaining them with her PowerPoint presentation, songs, puppets, real animal pelts & nests, replicated skulls, specimens, scats & tracks; take-home craft materials &/or handouts will be provided. EVERYONE HAS FUN LEARNING! Ms. Hawley has 40+ years of experience as a classroom teacher, college professor, naturalist guide & educator for Audubon Society’s OutdoorExplore! & at Mission Trails Regional Park, where she created & taught her “wildly popular” nature classes for 10 years. She is author of NATURE ADVENTURES! A Guidebook of Nature Facts, Songs and Hikes in San Diego County, Sunbelt Publications, Inc. 2017 Her classes go full STEAM ahead: S—Sciences—zoology, biology, botany T—Technology—PowerPoint, Smartphone, computers E—English language, new vocabulary, scientific terms A—Arts, crafts, creativity M—Music—Singing about the fauna of San Diego