Upcoming Event 7th Annual Geoffrey Platts Celebration...Saturday, April 18, 2009 9 a.m. , Sat., 18 April 2009 - Earth Day   THIS YEAR an informal  picnic gathering below Geoffrey's Bench,  down a short steep path to a spot alongside Cave Creek, at "Jewel of the Creek," part of the Desert Foothills Land Trust holdings north of and near Cave Creek on Spur Cross Road.   Bring-Your-Own Picnic Lunch, hat, water.  More details later > > > > >information.  Our seventh annual gathering at the Jewel of the Creek Preserve in Cave Creek will honor the memory of our naturalist friend, Geoffrey Platts, and reaffirm the importance of Earth Day.

Geoffrey’s Estate: Progress to Date & Future Plans... Greeting Friends of Geoffrey...It was 8 years ago, in the winter & spring of 2001, that I helped clean out our friend Geoffrey’s cabin alongside Camp Creek. We removed roughly 50 boxes of cabin contents, mostly papers, into temporary storage. These papers, along with assorted memorabilia & performance tapes, condensed to a total of 42 boxes, were accepted by the Arizona Historical Foundation in the following year. There they lay for 4 years, in the Hayden Library on the ASU campus in Tempe and later in an off-campus warehouse facility. Little was done to further organize the papers during that time. In the spring of 2006, More > > > > >information.

Purchase Geoffrey's Journal: Notes From The Wilderman: A Letter-Journal For Nuzsa → →  → →  → →  Here !! ← ← In the summer of 1997, Geoffrey went on a month-long hike in his beloved Sonoran Desert.  During his time there, he recorded a journal for a new friend, Nuzsa Woda.  That journal, Notes From The Wilderman: A Letter-Journal For Nuzsa, is now available for purchase. If you would like a copy of this journal, it is available in the USA for $12.00, and from England and Northern Ireland, for $18.00. A limited number of copies were printed, don't miss this chance to read the last printed journal of our dear friend, Geoffrey Platts!  More > > > > >information.

Naturalist Geoffrey Platts remembered - By Curtis Riggs.,  Sonoran News. Ceremony held near his bench at Jewel of the Creek.  CAVE CREEK  - A group of over 30 environmentalists paid homage to former local naturalist Geoffrey Platts over the weekend just a few days before Earth Day.     The group, which included his old friends and the ones whose lives he shaped with his "green" ways, gathered to remember Platts and talk about how he made them more aware of nature and the need to preserve it.  They also heard from...Read the news article> > > > > information.