LEARN ABOUT CREATURES

(IN OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS)

this project is called LOCAL BIOLOGY (until we think of something better)

Look at Tailing Basins (nasty ponds from mining) online

This is an example of a tailing basin

(FYI there's no wikipedia definition for tailing basin)

How many of these can you find in your state?

in michigan

Help preserve one of the main trees of the East, Black Ash (and also Anishinaabe Basket-Weaving Tradition while you're at it)

At the Indigenous Earth Summit, I heard Kelly Church explain about what the Emerald Ash Borer is...and why it is horrible.

links

The Amazing Part - making baskets from trees!

Kelly Church showed us some of her tools for basket making.

Coffee Shop Seasonal Calendars

This Spring, we will be bringing Local Biology to our local and beloved Coffee Shops (just a handful of coffee shops, just the ones that we, personally, attend regularly.)

We will be providing both you, and ourselves, with the materials necessary to get more observations & understanding about wild things in our own neighborhoods.

It's pretty simple -- and if you want to do it to, let us know. We hope to have this project go in 5-10 coffee shops next year.

Tiny Field Guides

Our plans for the summer

There are a few of us who decided that we really will make some tiny field guides for our own neighborhoods. Subjects so far include: birds, ants, trees, bees, bike sound mapping.

We are going to try sharing these with the people in our neighborhood. We will let you know how it goes.

If you want to get involved, it's easy. Pick something you want to learn about, and make a little guide. Share it with us and we will be happy to give you some feedback.

What is a Tiny Field Guide?

Tiny Field Guides are little books made from 1 piece of printer paper. The paper is folded & cut to make 8 little pages — a front, back, and 6 pages for descriptions and observations.

Through this website, we can upload our guides, and digitize the content in the guides. This will make the content of the guides searchable through the internet. This means people in our neighborhoods might find our little guides!

(we will make a picture of this for you!)

Event (for people)
eloise butler wildflower garden opens
2009, April 1 9:00am America/Chicago

Melting Snows of Minnesota

Event (for people)
First Annual Save the Frogs Day
2009, April 28 (All day) America/Chicago

Some of us are aware the frogs are incredibly threatened right now (see why). Also, 2008 was the "Year of the Frog," in which many aquariums & zoos did active work to increase knowledge about the situation of frogs.

Save the Frogs Day is April 28th, and the website for this new holiday has suggestions about how you can help educate others about frogs.

These are some things we can do on this website:

  • Create tiny field guides about frogs in your neighborhood to share with others
  • Add 'Natural Events' to localbiology. All you have to do is lookup frog lifecycle information and add that to our public calendar.
  • Attend or 'do' a frog-related learning event (on or in frog mating season.) For example, some Minneapolitans will be going frog monitoring again, as we did last year. But this time we're doing sound recordings.
  • Post frog-related monitoring volunteer opportunities
City or Town: 
Minneapolis
savethefrogs.com/day
Frog art contest
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Winter Birds of North Berkeley