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  • Sunday, June 27 – Wednesday, July 7 – Botanical Alaska 2021

    Sunday, June 27 – Wednesday, July 7 – Botanical Alaska 2021

    We invite you to join Pacific Horticulture on June 27 – July 7, to explore the wonderful wildflowers, wildlife, and spectacular landscapes of Alaska in 2021.

    PHS Board member and celebrated garden photographer Saxon Holt will be leading us on a photo expedition to Alaska. Book now as this very popular tour was sold out in 2019.

    View photos and read Saxon’s travelogue from 2019.

    Alaska possesses a profusion of native plants from streamside to mountainside. There are more then 1,500 plant species in the 49th state, from sea level to just below the snow line. Summer is the bountiful time for flowering plants, their pollinators, and large mammals who feed on the nutritious flowers or bulbs. On this expedition, we will traverse Alaska from Anchorage to Seward, traveling along the scenic Cook Inlet and spectacular Chugach Mountains, and then up the Denali Highway to Denali National Park.

    Also guiding this expedition will be David Wimpfheimer, an excellent naturalist and leader of many Betchart Alaska Expeditions, and John Burns, a botanist with years of Alaska expertise, and other local experts. We hope you will join our exploration of this vast and beautiful land!

    View Alaska 2021 tour brochure

    For complete itinerary details and information about booking this trip, click https://www.pacifichorticulture.org/tours/botanical-alaska-2020/

  • Wednesday, July 10 – Saturday, July 20 – Botanical Alaska: Wildflowers, Wildlife, and Spectacular Landscapes

    Wednesday, July 10 – Saturday, July 20 – Botanical Alaska: Wildflowers, Wildlife, and Spectacular Landscapes

    Join Pacific Horticulture for an Alaskan adventure July 10 – 20. Our journey takes us from Anchorage to Seward, traveling along the scenic Cook Inlet and Chugach Mountains, then up the Denali Highway to Denali National Park, and inland to Fairbanks. We’ll see stately forests, beautiful gardens, streamside wildflowers, and dwarf tundra plants on the mountaintops. Experienced naturalist David Wimpfheimer will lead our expedition accompanied by John Burns, a botanist with years of Alaska expertise and other local guides.

    For complete itinerary details and information about booking this trip click http://www.betchartexpeditions.com/na-alaska_phs_2019.htm

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  • Wednesday, June 24 – Sunday, July 5 – Explore Alaska: Wildflowers, Wildlife, and Spectacular Landscapes

    The New England Wild Flower Society invites you to join them to explore the wonderful wildflowers, wildlife and spectacular landscapes of Alaska in 2015. Alaska possesses a profusion of native plants from streamside to mountainside. There are more than 1,500 plant species in the 49th state, from sea level to just below the snow line. Summer is the bountiful time for flowering plants, their pollinators, and large mammals who feed on the nutritious flowers or bulbs.

    On this expedition, you will traverse Alaska from Anchorage to Seward, traveling along the scenic Cook Inlet and spectacular Chugach Mountains, and then up the Denali Highway to Denali National Park. You will hike on Hatcher Pass, and see stately forests, botanic gardens, scenic streamside walks teeming with flowers, and dwarf tundra plants on the mountain tops. You’ll stay two nights in the heart of Denali National Park, the finest park and wildlife preserve in Alaska, home to grizzlies, caribou, Dall sheep and abundant wildflowers, and then visit Fairbanks in the interior of Alaska.

    Leading this expedition will be John Burns, the Administrative Coordinator for the Plant Conservation Volunteer Program for the Society. John lived in Alaska for several years and led the Society’s Ecuador and Madagascar trips. Co-leading will be Justin Gibson, an Alaskan naturalist with a focus on mammals. For complete details and itinerary visit http://www.newenglandwild.org/learn/alaska.

  • Saturday, October 4 – Sunday, October 19 – Madagascar With New England Wild Flower Society

    The New England Wild Flower Society invites you to join them to explore the natural heritage and unique flora and wildlife of Madagascar in October, 2014. This 16-day expedition offers travel enthusiasts an exceptional opportunity to become acquainted with the flora and fauna of Madagascar.

    Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world, isolated from the African continent for 30 million years. It is home to at least 12,000 plants—a high percentage that are unique to the country. Ninety‑five percent of the lemurs and reptiles, 80 percent of the flowering plants, 98 percent of the palms, and more than 100 birds are found nowhere else.

    Leading this tour will be Herilala Jonah, a superb Madagascar naturalist. Representing the Society will be staff member John Burns.

    The itinerary includes:

    • Antananarivo & the Lemur Park. Visit the capital city of Madagascar and this private reserve established in 2001 for lemur education and conservation.

    • Perinet Reserve, in the eastern rain forests. Look for the largest of the lemurs, the indri, noted for its ear-shattering cries and agility in traveling through the rain forest canopy. Explore the moist forest with trees covered in epiphytes, ferns, and large lianas with bamboo below.

    • Berenty Reserve, an internationally acclaimed wildlife reserve in the semi‑arid south. Enjoy the unique spiny desert plus a profusion of ring-tailed lemurs, sifakas, lepilemurs, and flying foxes.

    • Reserve de Nahampoana, an excellent botanical reserve near Fort Dauphin.

    • Isalo National Park, an extraordinary landscape in the southwest with arid sandstone ridges sculpted by wind and water, with lemurs and endemic plants.

    We hope you will join us for this adventure, and discover the magnificence of Madagascar in 2014!

    For more trip information, you can download the trip brochure by visiting http://www.newfs.org/images/learn/Madagascar%20brochure%20from%20Betchart-%20final.pdf.  Or contact:

    Betchart Expeditions, Inc.
    17050 Montebello Road
    Cupertino, CA 95014-5435

    Tel: (800) 252-4910 or (408) 252-4910
    Fax: (408) 252-1444Email: info@betchartexpeditions.com

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