Anacortes Senior College

In this three-week course, we will look at the amazing relationships between different living beings in the forest. After an overview of the main tree, bird, and animal species that live in the ACFL, we will explore the interrelationships between trees and the tiny organisms that help the forest thrive: mosses, lichens, and fungi. Jane will illustrate the sessions with photographs she has taken in her years of hiking the forest lands.

Instructor: Jane Billinghurst

Jane is a writer, editor, and translator who works with non-fiction natural history books, including the New York Times bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees by German forester Peter Wohlleben and Forest Walking, which Jane co-wrote with Peter. Jane has lived in the UK, Canada, and the US. She has called Anacortes home for the past twenty years and spends as many hours as she can out in forests looking for amazing and often-overlooked treasures under the tree canopy.