Anacortes Senior College

In this three-week course, we will look at the relationships between living beings in local forests, focusing on 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. After translating The Hidden Life of Trees by German forester Peter Wohlleben, she embarked on her own voyage of discovery into local forest ecosystems. 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 trees.