| February 2, 2008 |
Join Jenny Jones, member of the Los Angeles Audubon Society and local bird enthusiast, for an early walk in the walnut woodland and discover the birds of Debs Park. Learn how to identify local birds and their unique behaviors as well as compare their different songs and calls. Meet in the entry courtyard of Debs Park.
The Audubon Center at Debs Park houses an environmental education center and ecological monitoring program. Over half the park is covered in walnut-oak woodland, grassland, and coastal sage scrub, a remnant of the native habitats that once rimmed the Los Angeles Basin.
WHEN: 9:00am
ADMISSION: Free
WHERE: Audubon Center at Debs Park
ADDRESS: 4700 N. Griffin Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90031
CONTACT: www.laaudubon.org
FOR ADDITIONAL INFO: www.audubon-ca.org/debs_park.htm
The LA Astronomical Society and the LA Sidewalk Astronomers are holding a free star party for the public at the Griffith Observatory. From 2:00pm-10:00pm try out numerous telescopes, talk to astronomers and look at the sun, moon, visible planets and other objects.
The Museum of Design + Architecture (MODAA) will be hosting a special opening reception for their new exhibit “Australia Contemporary: Aboriginal Art & Modern Architecture.”
Susan Jacoby will discuss her new book “The Age of American Unreason” in a conversation with Jack Miles. Jacoby offers a dazzlingly insightful and occasionally hilarious analysis of the anti-rationalism, anti-intellectualism, and anti-scientism that increasingly characterizes the cultural and intellectual life of this country.
