Tags: 2012, Fire Ecology, Jim Kenney, Meeting, Season 2011-2012, wildflowers

For our May meeting, Photographer Jim Kenney presented on wildflowers.

Jim Kenney has been a nature photographer and speaker since 1974. His photography has been featured many times in the Palisadian-Post, as well as the Los Angeles Times and environmental magazines. He was the photographer for Milt McAuley’s Wildflowers of the Santa Monica Mountains. Jim was also a contributing photographer to Nancy Dale’s Flowering Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains, Coastal & Chaparral Regions of Southern California. Since the introduction of digital photography, he has spent the last six years photographing birds of the Malibu Lagoon.

His presentation gave an overview of plant communities in our nearby mountains, with an emphasis not on just colorful wildflowers, but also on fire ecology, the relationship of horticultural plants to local natives, and a description of the almost completed Backbone Trail. Jim has lived in Palisades since 1965 and has been on the Board of Directors of the Temescal Canyon Association for many years.