Eco Travel and Birding in Panama
Presented by Brian Elliott
Tuesday, April 7, 2015, 7:30 PM
San Bernardino County Museum, 2024 Orange Tree Lane, Redlands Birding and eco travel in Panama will be the topic of Brian Elliott’s illustrated program at the San Gorgonio Chapter’s April 7 meeting. The meeting is free and open to the public and starts at 7:30 PM at the San Bernardino County Museum, 2024 Orange Tree Lane, Redlands.
Brian and his wife Janice, both Sierra Club members, spent two weeks visiting the Panama Canal Zone staying at lodges that cater to birders. Panama is a top birding destination in Central America because of spectacular numbers and variety of birds.
The country is also well known for two species of sloths, many species of monkey, beautiful tropical plants, and of course an amazing array of insects. Brian will show some of his photos from his trip and discuss his experience in Panama with us. It should be a very interesting evening.
Brian is the new chair of the chapter’s Los Serranos Group. He is a former geologist who is now in his 30th year of teaching at San Dimas High School. He has organized and led many backpacking trips including several in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska and on Baffin Island in Canada.
He has rock climbed extensively across North America, Europe, and Australia including big wall ascents of El Capitan and Half Dome in Yosemite . Brian was a member of a Himalayan climbing expedition in the mid-1990s with a group of his friends in the Karakorum Mountains.
In the past few years, Brian has presented programs at our chapter meetings dealing with several of his Alaska backpacking trips and his and Janice’s Botswana safari. Brian and Janice live in Upland.
