The series called A Day in the Woods continues with “Woodland and Wildlife Research” on Oct. 11.
The event will feature research underway in southeast Ohio’s Vinton Furnace State Forest near McArthur, including on subjects such as blue jays, rattlesnakes, and sustaining oak-hickory forests.
Just as important, the flier says, you can also just “enjoy the fall woods.”
CFAES’ OSU Extension outreach arm is one of the series sponsors.
MaLisa Spring, CFAES alum (MS, entomology, 2017) and coordinator of the Ohio State-based Ohio Dragonfly Survey, was quoted today in a story on the CNN website about how recent swarms of migrating dragonflies are so huge they’re appearing on radar.
Discover the Hocking Hills’ hemlock forests—and the things that make noise in the night in those forests—on the next A Day in the Woods (and part of a night). It’s this Friday, Aug. 9. (Photo: Hocking Hills State Park, Getty Images.)
On Saturday, Aug. 10, CFAES’ Secrest Arboretum in Wooster is holding a free public bird walk. You can see and learn to identify birds, such as the ruby-throated hummingbird shown here. And you can also see what the birds have to say about the arboretum’s plants and ecosystems. “One of the most useful things that birds can indicate,” an EnvironmentalScience.org webpage called “Birds as Environmental Indicators” says, “is overall habitat quality.” (Photo: Getty Images.)
A CFAES workshop on Aug. 16 will check out the Wildlife in Your Woods. Sign up by Aug. 9. (Photo: Eastern wood-pewee, Getty Images.)
What fish live in Lake Erie? Find out at “Walleye, Perch, and Bass, Oh My!” (which are three good clues right there), the next Ohio Sea Grant science talk at Lakeside Chautauqua on the Marblehead peninsula. You’ll meet some finny friends and then will hear about what concerns them. It’s from 2–3 p.m. on Tuesday, July 16.
Admission to the talk is free but requires paid admission to Lakeside and a parking pass.
Find out more. (Photo: Smallmouth bass, Eric Engbretson, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.)
The prothonotary warbler, which in summer breeds in eastern and central North America, including Ohio, spends winter in just one country in South America. So says a new study led by Christopher Tonra, assistant professor in CFAES’ School of Environment and Natural Resources. The finding, Tonra said, “speaks to how important habitat protection in this one country is to the (birds’) overall population.” Read the story. (Photo: Male prothonotary warbler, Getty Images.)
Get up to speed on Ohio’s cicadas, courtesy of scientists from CFAES.
The 17-year cicadas are coming, at least in parts of northeast Ohio. “It’s a big entomological event,” says CFAES scientist Dave Shetlar—and a tasty opportunity, or maybe not.
There’s lots of life—wild life—in southeast Ohio’s Vinton Furnace State Forest, and there’s a chance coming up to check it out (scroll down).
