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May 7, 2020
As heard on NPR Morning Edition
Bees Sense Charge On Flowers
https://www.npr.org/2013/02/22/172611866/honey-its-electric-bees-sense-c...
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Apr 27, 2020
As you know, we have been asking for your input on developing online content. Thanks to everyone who has filled out our survey so far! If you’d still like to participate, click this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LP3NRGL. We’d love to hear your thoughts.
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Mar 27, 2020
Field Report from Andrew: (Andrew Hoffman is a Graduate Research Assistant with the OSU Terrestrial Wildlife Ecology Lab)
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Mar 27, 2020
Spring migration is always an exciting time for birders. This year, many of our usual activities have been curtailed. Stay-at-home birding may not have been on our agenda for this Spring but the slower pace of life now can offer some great opportunities to get to know our backyard birds more deeply. Watching them come into their breeding plumage, find mates and rear young can be quite interesting and calming. Spend some time on close observation, try some experiments, keep birding. Remember - we might not have backyards full of rare birds but every bird is an interesting bird!
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Jul 31, 2019
Butterfly House at Beech Creek Gardens in Alliance needs volunteers. This counts toward OCVN hours. Contact Amy Barr if interested.
Also, the Norma Johnson Center in Tuscarawas County could use volunteers at the Butterfly House this summer even though the Butterfly Exhibit is over (maybe next year). Contact Carrie Elvey, The Wilderness Center, 330-359-5235.
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Mar 29, 2019
Great strides are being made across the county to protect the Monarch Butterfly. Monarch City USA plants milkweed and wildflowers, raises caterpillars at home, tags adult butterflies for research and, most importantly, educates others!
Cowan Lake State Park has made a promise to the monarchs by becoming an official member of Monarch City USA! Cowan is the first park in Ohio to be designated and only the second park in the nation. More is being done at Cowan Lake to help this species. Would you like to join us?
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Dec 14, 2018
See PRESS RELEASE outlining the accomplishment of the Little Miami Watershed Network in covering the communities of Bellbrook and Sugar Creek Township with Medallions that encourage people to let only water go down the storm drains. Part of the Network's Protect Our Water program is the hope that people will be reminded to protect our water sources. Water will be Ohio's most sought after resource in years to come and a great benefit to all mankind, if its not polluted.
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Dec 7, 2018
We are now accepting applications for the 2019 Volunteer Pollinator Specialization program. Ohio Pollinator Advocates, OSU Master Gardeners, Ohio Certified Volunteer Naturalists, Chadwick Arboretum volunteers, urban farmers and others are invited to apply.
Participants will take part in at least 30 hours of educational training through monthly specialization programs. Our emphasis will be on native bee and bumble bee biology and identification. The orientation on 2/11 and 2/12 is required; all other sessions flexible.
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May 4, 2018
In 2010 I went through the OCVN program in Montgomery County. It changed my life. After the program, I changed careers and began the process of working towards my dream of creating an educational center in our area, where people of all ages could learn about animals and nature. I went back to college to get my master's in zoology, held a position as an ODNR State Park Naturalist for a few years and wrote a business plan for my venture. I traveled to Belize, Kenya and Namibia to study field conservation and incorporate that into the plan.
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May 4, 2018
Pollinator Partnership (P2) is seeking volunteers to participate in the Ohio portion of their Monarch Wings Across the Eastern Broadleaf Forest project. Volunteers work with seed collection teams to collect seed from 20 targeted monarch host and nectar plant species.
