Website for Mark S. Garland

Garland Cunningham LLC

As you probably know, Mark Garland is a naturalist who leads lots of field trips and tours (biography here).  While he is now mostly retired, he still plans to lead a few field trips and give a few presentations each year for the foreseeable future.  This website is designed to provide information about upcoming activities along with photo-filled reports of recent field trips.  We are leading a few tours for organizations, and also planning and running the occasional trip for private groups.  Get a few friends together if you'd like for us to plan and/or lead a trip for your group.

What this page is about

Previous Trips

Here are some journeys from recent years:

Mark once again will be the Session Director at the National Audubon Society's Hog Island Camp Spring Migration and Monhegan Island session,  May 24 - 29, 2026.  He will be working with exceptional instructors Holly Merker and Tom Reed, along with the very talented Hog Island staff.  Details here.  He will also be leading a short program titled Monarchs and MIgration from August 25 - 28, details here.

HOME SWEET HOME

     Like everyone else, I stayed close to home for almost all of 2020.  Fortunately home is Cape May, and I always took my camera along on my daily walks.  Enjoy the cycle of a year in Cape May through photographs here.

AND NOW ...

     I did it again in 2021!  To see highlights from Cape May in 2021, month by month, please click here.

Mark will be guiding and speaking at the 2027 New River Birding and Nature Festival, April 26 - May 1, 2027. Click here for details.

NEW! Antarctica - Dec/Jan 2024-2025

Brazil - July 2024

Costa Rica - August 2021

Yellowstone - September 2021

Uganda - Jan/Feb 2020

2019 - 5 trips

2018 - 6 trips

Mark has been organizing and leading trips for Nature Forward for more than 40 years, and he's not quite ready to quit.  Coming soon: photos from the Nature Forward trip to the Monarch Butterfly Reserves in Mexico during February of 2026.

Read Mark's column in every issue of BWD. Click for details about print or online subscriptions.