Join local botanist and PLU Associate Professor Romey Haberle for a look at the green world that lives in, on, below and all around our magnificent trees near Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium and down towards the Rhododendron Garden.  This walk will take us along a corridor of different trees and associated mosses, ferns, and flowering plants that shift as we walk through different plant communities.  Our walk will take us through an area that has been used pre and post settlement by humans as well as wildlife, and we'll see how storms and time have caused natural changes, as well as changes brought by non-native plant introductions. 

Capped at 12!

This is a 2-mile Walk. Dress comfortably and according to the weather so that you can enjoy the walk! 

Meet at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium Parking Lot.

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BIO: Romey Haberle has a PhD in Botany from UT Austin and has taught at PLU since 2009.  She is also the curator of the Irene Creso Herbarium, the Quigg Greenhouse, with interests in cultural uses of plants, invasive species, rare plants, and how plant communities change over time. She volunteers with MPT using her botanical passions plus as a member of the MPT Nature and Environment Advisory Council.

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This program is possible thanks to Tacoma Creates.