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Botany Road Trip

Botany Road Trip

Rated 5.00 out of 5 based on 4 customer ratings
(4 customer reviews)

$35.00

A 3-part Webinar Series with Plant Explorer & Botanical Storyteller Matt Berger
Available to view immediately with purchase

Part 1 | California Deserts
Part 2 | Intermountain West
Part 3 | Southeast

Matt spent the last year on a plant-centric road trip looking for unusual plants in unusual places. He’s sharing his astounding botanical tales (and spectacular plant photography) as we tag along for this virtual road trip — plant lists included!

Optional Field Trip Opportunity: May 28 in southern California – Register Separately (see info below)

 

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Description

During the depths of pandemic life in early 2021, Matt Berger (@sheriff_woody_pct) took us on a fabulous 5-part virtual field trip along the Pacific Crest Trail with his webinar series Botanical Tales of the PCT.

It was fascinating, inspiring, wicked fun, and we all learned a bunch while along for the journey!

In this year that has followed, Matt has put his Subaru and hiking boots to work exploring just about every state west of the Mississippi (sorry, Oklahoma!) and much of the Southeast in search of botanical treasures.

He is sharing his finds and adventures with us in this 3-part series:

PART 1 | California Deserts: We’ll visit all 3 of them: The Mojave, Great Basin, and Sonoran/Colorado Deserts, including botanical tours of Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks.

PART 2 | Intermountain West: You know all that wide open space between the Cascades/Sierras and the Rocky Mountains? Yep, Matt will share botanical finds from 8 states (NV, OR, WA, ID, MT, WY, CO, & UT) — including those he found hiking 500 miles on Nevada’s Great Basin Trail!

PART 3 | Southeast: If there’s an unusual habitat, you know Matt is making a beeline for it to see what’s growing. The southeast is full of these pockets and Matt will share all sorts of beauties and curiosities with us — including some gorgeous carnivorous plants from FL, GA, AL, and SC.

Matt spins a mean tale, and he’ll be tossing in some goodies from his travels: fossil hunting with Joey Santore (Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t) in Nevada, finding a psychoactive fungal cicada STD in Colorado, and a look at the drastic measures one may take to fill their water bottle when on a thru hike of the Great Basin Trail… among other curiosities and wonders of the natural world!

PLANT LISTS accompany each leg of the journey.


FIELD TRIP OPPORTUNITY | May 28th

If you’re in southern CA you may also like to join Matt for a real life, in-person field trip near Ridgecrest, CA on May 28th to meet a mind-blowing parasitic Borage and many more interesting species in both sand dunes and decomposing granite.

Register Separately and Learn More:

  • AM Field Trip | 10am-12:30pm
  • PM Field Trip | 1:30-4pm

GIVING BACK

10% of class fees will be donated to the California Native Plant Society (CNPS) Vegetation Program and the CNPS Bristlecone Chapter.


What are people saying about Matt’s last series, Botanical Tales of the PCT?

Amazing class, Matt is a great storyteller and an even greater botanist. – Ryan Balkcom

This series was absolutely brilliant. I learned about so many interesting plants and habitats, and Matt’s stories of the trail were inspirational and entertaining. I liked the plant lists that were sent out ahead of time so I could follow along and make notes about things I want to look up later. – Leah Cogan

Loved this series! I’ve followed Matt on Instagram for at least 3 years now, and find his enthusiasm for plants so infectious. – Natalie Parker

I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of these five sessions! Matt shared so much great info about native plants, including photos and characteristics that help with identification.  – Marcy

This was such a fun hike with Matt. I gave it 5 stars, but it deserves 500 stars! – Sharon Kenyon

This was a terrific experience. There was an engaging balance of botany and trail stories and neither got old. – Joel Ferree

This class was awesome!!! Absolutely loved getting to learn about the plants along the way while hearing interesting stories about real experiences on the PCT from a thru hiker. I have a lot of appreciation for Matt’s dedication to the project, he was inspiring!!! – Kat Schut

This was a fantastic webinar series. Matt is both engaging and extremely knowledgeable about the flora along the PCT. He did a lot of research before his thru hikes and it paid off in his many observations. Plus, he takes wonderful photos! – Sue Kelso

This was an outstanding webinar series—a must-see. Matt’s botanical knowledge is incredible and his presentation was professional and entertaining. There was so much content I watched them over again! Allison was the perfect host and did an excellent job of coordinating and communicating the logistics. I looked forward to each installment and, like Matt finishing his PCT hike, was sad to have this virtual botanical community end. – Diana Doyle

I looked forward to every Tuesday night for 5 weeks, just because I knew I’d get to spend a couple enjoyable hours listening to Matt share his love and knowledge of plants and funny stories of his hikes along the PCT. I learned a lot and am so happy I tuned in! – Elizabeth Smith

It was an absolute delight seeing all the wonderful plants that Matt saw along the trail. The photography and interpretation of his trip, and the amazing trail tails are hilarious and heart warming. Incredible talks by an incredible botanist! Thank you for sharing your journey with us. – Dee Shea Himes

Easy 5 stars, this series was a gem. Completely inspiring to take a closer look at the plants you walk by each day, and to think about how we can care for our environment. Matt has an infectiously chipper and humorous angle on his botany passion and his adventures on the PCT. His stories were just as valuable to the webinar and often had me laughing and wondering how someone can be so upbeat about the trials of a PCT thru-hike. Great series and I would watch again in a heartbeat. – Jacky Taylor

 

4 reviews for Botany Road Trip

  1. Rated 5 out of 5

    CAROL (verified owner) – May 15, 2022

    Love the photos and the stories that Matt throws in too. Enjoyed the plants of the south-eastern US as I don’t expect to ever go there myself. It was a great armchair tour. Hope to see Matt offer more series in the future,

  2. Rated 5 out of 5

    Howard (verified owner) – May 17, 2022

    We really enjoyed another great trip with Matt and Backcountry Press! Living near Death Valley and having hiked many of the trails Matt hiked in the 1st session, I was blown away by all the plants Matt highlighted and I’ve never seen before. The second and third sessions have inspired me to get to areas I’ve not explored yet. I can’t wait to meet Matt in person on the field trip. Thanks so much for your quality content and helping to awaken our love for our Earth.

  3. Rated 5 out of 5

    Carrie Sachs (verified owner) – May 18, 2022

    In a word – EXCELLENT!
    Matt is super knowledgeable about the plants and has a great personality that adds an element of fun to the learning experience.
    Highly recommend watching.

  4. Rated 5 out of 5

    Kathleen Moyer (verified owner) – July 5, 2022

    I again really enjoyed Matt Berger’s presentations. He is very easy to listen to and is very knowledgeable and inspiring. thanks again, Matt and Alison

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