Please join us for the third in a series of six lectures in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Rookery Bay Research Reserve - Rookery Bay through the Eyes of Local Residents and Volunteers. Allison Haynes, Rookery Bay Research Reserve volunteer and one of few who have actually lived within the boundaries of the reserve, will trace the establishment and growth of the reserve as well as the volunteer experience. Lunch will be provided.

The 2018-19 lecture series will focus on the history of the Rookery Bay area and the establishment of the Research Reserve. Lectures by staff and volunteers will describe 3,000 years of use of the estuary, the grassroots movement to save the bay, fisheries research, the establishment of the Research Reserve and Environmental Learning Center, as well as some of the more recent accomplishments and notable events in the Reserve’s timeline.