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How to draw plants: Curling leaves.1 6.1/7

This series of botanical illustration videos will teach you some basic techniques to help you quickly and accurately draw plants, either for field ...

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How to draw plants: Curling leaves.2 6.2/7

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Climate Change Voices: California Coast

A day on the California coast with artist and naturalist Jack Laws exploring the places threatened by global warming.

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SNWJ draw butterfly

Jack Laws shows teachers how to draw butterflies at our Sierra Nevada Institute.

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Sketch Bird Songs

Listen to beautiful bird songs of the Sierra Nevadas as naturalist John (Jack) Muir Laws describes how to draw their songs in a journal. Youll als...

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Why birds dont fall out of trees when they sleep....

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Lizard Lyme Legacy & Lore

Audio clip from "Against The Grain" show of 5-24-11 on KPFA 94.1 FM, with CS Soong interviewing naturalist John Muir Laws. The Western Fence Lizar...

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Jack Laws reading poetry

Last day of our Master Bird Drawing/ Sketchbook Class. Sierra nevada Field Campus Yuba Pass

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Sierra Nevada Ants - Jack Laws

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Laws Guides to San Francisco Bay

Author and illustrator John Muir Laws introduces his new Laws Guides to

the San Francisco Bay Area during a visit to the Richardson Bay Audubon

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Tips on Butterfly Illustration and Sketching

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John Muir Laws: Get Out There and Draw!

Created on June 5, 2011 using FlipShare.

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How to draw plants: Conclusion 7/7

This series of botanical illustration videos will teach you some basic techniques to help you quickly and accurately draw plants, either for field ...

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How to draw plants: Leaves and petals 5/7

This series of botanical illustration videos will teach you some basic techniques to help you quickly and accurately draw plants, either for field ...

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How to draw plants: Foreshortening.2 4/7

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How to draw plants: Foreshortening.1 3/7

This series of botanical illustration videos will teach you some basic techniques to help you quickly and accurately draw plants, either for field ...

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How to draw plants: Symmetry 2/7

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How to draw plants: Introduction 1/7

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About John Muir Laws

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Dec 23, 2011

Date Joined

Apr 5, 2011

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Naturalist, educator and artist John (Jack) Muir Laws delights in exploring the natural world and sharing this love with others. Laws has worked as an environmental educator for over 25 years in California, Wyoming, and Alaska. He teaches classes on natural history, conservation biology, scientific illustration, and field sketching. He is trained as a wildlife biologist and is an associate of the California Academy of Sciences. In 2009, he received the Terwilliger Environmental Award for outstanding service in Environmental Education. He is a 2010 TogetherGreen Conservation Leadership Fellow with the National Audubon Society. He is the 2011 artist for International Migratory Bird Day.

Laws has written and illustrated books about the natural history of California including Sierra Birds: a Hiker's Guide (2004), The Laws Guide to the Sierra Nevada (2007), and The Laws Pocket Guide Set to the San Francisco Bay Area (2009). He is a regular contributor to Bay Nature magazine with his "Naturalists Notebook" column. His illustrations are informed by extensive field experience and capture the feeling of the living plant or animal, while also including details critical for identification.
Laws is deeply committed to stewardship of nature and collaborates with organizations throughout the state. He initiated Following Muir's Footsteps, an educational program to engender passionate love of nature, personal understanding of natural history and commitment to stewardship. This program gets students out in the field, learning from their own observations and using field guides and nature journals as the basis for discovering nature around them. As a part of this project, he is working secure funding to donate sets of field guides to every middle and high school in the Sierra Nevada.

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