What Does the Anza-Borrego Desert Natural History Association do?


ABDNHA ...
...offers approximately 150 activities each year. 
...provides quality educational and enjoyable programs to enrich the experience of residents and visitors.
...promotes appreciation of the desert by attracting new visitors to Anza-Borrego and Borrego Springs.
...provides educational programs for children, in the Borrego Springs schools, and worldwide via our website.
...operates the ABDNHA Library with an extensive collection of desert books and periodicals.
...offers nature guides, books, and many other items to purchase in the ABDNHA Desert Nature Center.
.....ABDNHA is a non-profit independent 501(c)3 educational organization.

Our Partners...
...are the thousands of households who support our activities through their membership and contributions.
...are the hundreds of people who volunteer their time and knowledge to make our work possible.
... are Borrego Springs businesses and other major corporations who support our activities.
...are students, teachers, and parents who make use of our educational materials and programs.

The 2013-2014 Season in Review
This page features a review of the tours, lectures, programs, hikes, and tours,
during the October, 2013- April, 2014 desert season, as well as ongoing projects and activities.
   Students display their certificates

For the past five years, The Anza-Borrego Desert Natural History Association has conducted an after school science program for the Borrego Springs Elementary School GATE ( Gifted-Talented) program.

We offer ten hands-on sessions covering energy, astronomy, geology, climate, and the native flora and fauna of the surrounding desert region.		  
This is an active project, ABDNHA's newest project, officially launched in March of 2014.  Fund raising is now underway. 
 

   

 

  March 8, 6 - 7 p.m.

 Anza-Borrego's Marshal South as Writer and Artist
 Marshal South is best known for his 1938-1948 series of articles in Desert Magazine, telling the story of his family's life of on Ghost Mountain.  In this program, Historian, Writer, and publisher Diana Lindsay shared her research about other creative pursuits of Marshal South.		  

 
 





 
 
 
Great photography and accurate information for website, from an energetic couple from the Netherlands who never run out of hiking destinations!www.borregohiking.com 
 
Just a few of the hikes from the 2013-14 season
 
   
 
  ABDNHA's 16th annual Borrego Garden Tour was a record-breaking event, with over 750 garden lovers from San Diego County and far beyond, coming to enjoy the unique charm and the great desert weather of Borrego Springs. 

Thank you...to all our home owners and the many volunteers who made this event happen.		  
   
 
 

 
ABDNHA launched it's new
Business Membership Program
in 2013.  It's a natural partnership: businesses supporting the programs that bring people to Borrego Springs.


Current members are displayed below.



























Fredericks
Landscaping

Borrego Springs
(760) 767-5362 		 
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Thank you Pete and Jean Ann Jensen for hosting this fantastic evening in your beautiful home designed by the Arhitects Hubbell and Hubbell. We not only had a sunset but an incredible full moon over the desert as our event drew to a close.  A big thank you! also goes out to Drew and James Hubbell who attended the event and provided a program on both the construction of this unique home as well as the personal philosophy that is a guiding force in their work.
        
   
   
   
   
       
   
   
       
       
 

3 Day Biking Course

By ABDNHA volunteer

Julie Taylor

Julie also leads the ABDNHA weekly bike rides.

    
 
History Preservation Day: 
Old Borego
Nov. 10, Sun., 1 p.m. – 3 p.m 


ABBIE THE OWL
ABDNHA's New Mascot for children's programs was introduced at the 2013 Borrego Days Parade in October		    
   
   
   
   
    
   
  Borrego Springs is a small and very rural community.  Students do not have the same awareness of job opportunities as students in a larger city.

For the past two years The Anza-Borrego Desert Natural History Association has worked with SDG&E to transport the entire senior class to San Diego, where they have had the chance meet face-to-face with professionals working in the many different fields related to energy.		    
   
   
 

   
     
     
     Five full moon desert walks were offered during the 2013-14 season.
       
       
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