Join Buena Vista Audubon Society for a presentation by Rick Halsey, Director of the Chaparral Institute as well a writer, photographer, and, most importantly a guide to help others reconnect with Nature and their wild, inner selves. Rick has given more than 500 presentations and written extensively concerning chaparral ecology and the importance of reestablishing our connection with Nature. Explore how connecting with Nature through California’s most extensive ecosystem, the chaparral, offers us a way to achieve what so many philosophers through the ages have identified as essential to achieving a meaningful existence – to “know thyself.”