Last Day!

Here it is, Monday morning, May 1st, the last day of the 2023 Western Mass City Nature Challenge. We hope you had fun! It was lovely to meet some of you over the last three days; maybe we’ll see some of you today.

We’ll be back tonight with the initial wrap-up, but first, here are today’s activities:

Bioblitz at Quabbin Watershed, New Salem
Monday, May 1, 2023; 1PM – 3PM; Gate 29, Rt. 202 and Elm St., New Salem

Join Charley Eiseman and Lynn Harper for an easy stroll through woods and fields, past vernal pools and powerlines, to the northern shores of Quabbin Reservoir. Charley is a freelance naturalist based in western Massachusetts and the co-author, with Noah Charney, of the fascinating Tracks & Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates; Lynn is a conservation planner, retired from the Massachusetts Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program. Space is limited to 24 participants. Please email Lynn at harperlynn@msn.com to register for this event.

Bioblitz at Alderbrook Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary
Monday, May 1, 2023; 6PM – 7PM; 839 Millers Falls Rd. (Route 63), Northfield

Join Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust for our third City Nature Challenge event! Meet May Grzybowski, Mount Grace’s TerraCorps Land Conservation Steward, for a bioblitz at our accessible Alderbrook Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary Trail. May has worked in environmental education at Nature’s Classroom and is passionate about citizen science! All ages are welcome to this event! We’ll be walking the short trail which leads to a beaver pond and we will be trying to observe as many different plants and animals as we can! At Mount Grace we are using iNaturalist to learn more about the land we conserve and keep a record of the natural history of our forests. To register, please e-mail May Gryzbowski at grzybowski@mountgrace.org . Participants should download the iNaturalist app to their phones before arriving at the event or be ready to share a device with others. Adults with kids can also download the kid-friendly app Seek.

---Lynn Harper and Melanie Radik, co-organizers

Publicado el 01 de mayo de 2023 a las 11:02 AM por lynnharper