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This trip is part of the 2023 City Nature Challenge! Finals stressing you out? Need a study break in the beautiful mountains north of Hollywood? This trip is for you! Join us on a nice five mile hike on the Betty B Dearing Trail as we participate in the 2023 City Nature Challenge. Using an app called iNaturalist we will be observing, photographing, and documenting species along the way. Don’t miss it!
The City Nature Challenge is an annual four-day event at the end of April, where cities are in a collaboration-meets-friendly-competition to see which city can gather the most observations of nature, find the most species, and engage the most people outdoors. Let’s show out for Los Angeles!
PACKING LIST:
Snacks
H2O
WAIVERS
WE WILL PROVIDE:
Knowledge of iNaturalist
Good Vibes
PROFESSOR: Shannon Gibson
DEPARTMENT: Environmental Studies
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Dr. Gibson teaches courses and conducts research on global environmental politics, global public health, social movements, social justice and community-based research. She also works to engage students in active and experiential learning through her Gibson Climate Justice Lab, by teaching abroad from her research travels, such as the UN climate talks in Paris and Bonn and running interactive Model United Nations simulations in her courses based around real-life climate negotiations and World Health Assembly meetings.
PEAK: Betty B Dearing Trail
DIFFICULTY: 3/5
SCENERY: A semi forested trail through the mountains in between Hollywood and Studio city
FUN FACT: There’s an abandoned car along the trail!