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Tropical Oregon: When bananas grew in the Ancient Cascades!

Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 7:00 PM - Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 6:00 PM (PT)

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Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
Friday Evening Talk, April 12, 7-8 p.m. Ended $0.00 $0.00
Day Trip, Saturday, April 13 Ended $75.00 $0.00
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Event Details

This trip begins and ends at the High Desert Museum, Bend.

 

1)      Trip 10A: April 12: Talk, Friday evening, April 12, 7-8 PM, Bend’s High Desert Museum. Oregon’s Ancient Tropics. Ellen Morris  Bishop, OPLI. No charge.

2)      Trip 10: Day Trip, Saturday, April 13: Oregon’s Ancient Tropics: The John Day and Clarno Formations: Oregon’s most ancient volcanic and fossil roots. Leave Bend’s High Desert Museum at 8:30AM . Trip leader: Ellen Morris Bishop. Travels to Madras, then Ashwood to view John Day Formation vents and domes, fossils, and  extraordinary volcanic formations.  Continues to Cherry Creek, for Clarno vents and John Day River. Sack lunch. Travels (road conditions permitting) to John Day Fossil Beds National Monument Clarno Unit via back roads; Photographic opportunities galore, including early wildflowers. Returns to High Desert Museum at 6 PM. Limited to 8 participants.