Grizzly Bear 399, who will be featured in Oct. 24’s Environmental Professionals Network event at Ohio State, has a Twitter feed.
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Seats going fast for ‘An Evening with Grizzly Bear 399’
Only about 250 seats remain out of the original 1,000 available for “An Evening with Grizzly Bear 399” on Oct. 24 at Ohio State. So says CFAES’s David Hanselmann, coordinator of the Environmental Professionals Network, which is hosting the event. Read more here. Register here.
Eyeing ways for city officials to manage urban wildlife
A Nov. 15 event at Ohio State aims to help Ohio’s cities, towns and suburbs limit conflicts between people and wildlife, from deer to geese to coyotes like this one. Find out more. (Photo: iStock.)
Watch: ‘My insight into another world’
An Oct. 24 event at Ohio State will feature Grizzly 399, who lives in (and tweets from) Grand Teton National Park. Learn more about her in the video above.
All about caring for your land
Farm Science Review’s 67-acre Gwynne Conservation Area offers more than three dozen talks and demonstrations related to a farm’s natural resources — from planting trees to selling timber to stocking a pond to bringing in wildlife. They’re free and included with your admission to the Review, which is set for next month in London, west of Columbus. Find out more.
40 good reasons to go to the Gwynne
See woods, ponds and prairie — and prairie plant compadres like this monarch butterfly — in the Gwynne Conservation Area during the Sept. 20-22 Farm Science Review in London, Ohio. Then check out the 40-some talks in the area that are scheduled throughout the Review. Many of the speakers will be experts from CFAES. Trees, fish, wetlands and wildlife will be among the topics — plus managing pastures, safety with chainsaws and even Zika mosquitoes. See a complete schedule of the talks here. Read more here.
Are we out of the woods yet? No, we’re really getting INTO them
Take time this summer to get to know the woods in your own backyard. So says CFAES Forestry Program Director Kathy Smith, who’s helping teach a workshop that will help you do just that.
Sounds good; or, wetlands calling from the underwaterworld
“It’s in the woods, is surrounded by some impressive swamp white oaks and has a grove of buttonbush growing in it. It’s also a breeding site for several species of woodland amphibians, including spotted salamanders and chorus frogs.” If you’d like to (1) visit this place (the chorus frogs may be calling) and (2) have a place like it on your own land yourself, sign up by May 27. (Photo: Western chorus frog, USFWS Headquarters.)
Helping Mr. Toad come home
You’re in luck — and being helpful — if your land has a wetland, says CFAES Wildlife Specialist Marne Titchenell. “Wetlands are rare habitats that many plants and animals depend on. Landowners who are willing to dedicate a portion of their land to a wetland are providing some much-needed homes for wildlife.” Learn more in a workshop she’s co-teaching June 3.
Cardinal numbers and other measures of the state of birds in Ohio
The new Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Ohio, says co-editor Matt Shumar of CFAES, is “written in a way to appeal to a wide audience with useful information on Ohio’s natural history, the distribution of birds across Ohio and where to go to find them.” Check it out.