Park at the summit and join Ted Elliman for a walk along the high-elevation trails of Mount Greylock on Sunday, Aug. 10, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., where we’ll explore the red spruce–balsam fir zone — an ecosystem rarely found in Massachusetts and most prominently represented here at the mountain’s peak. Along the way, we’ll examine a range of montane flora uniquely adapted to this environment, including mountain ash, Bartram’s shadbush, hobblebush, heart-leaf birch, large-leaf goldenrod, twisted-stalk, Labrador tea, mountain wood-fern, and many other species that thrive in the cool, spruce-fir forests of Greylock’s upper slopes. We will arrive at 10:30 a.m. and have an approximately two-hour field study, and then you are on your own for lunch (picnic or lunch at Bascom Lodge). We will depart at 1:30 p.m.

Ted Elliman spent many years with the Native Plant Trust as a staff botanist, invasive species program manager and instructor in botany, ecology and conservation. Ted is also the author of “The Wildflowers of New England,” a widely used field guide to the region’s native plants, published by Timber Press in 2016. In addition to his work in New England, Ted founded and directed an environmental education and wilderness adventure center in the Berkshires and continues to lead natural history tours in southwest China, where he previously lived and worked as a teacher and forest ecologist.

Register HERE for the trip without transportation

Register HERE for the trip with transportation