Friday, June 19, 2009

Prairie Wildflower Walk June 27

Ryan Campbell, Consulting Restoration Ecologist for Fermilab, and long-time groundskeeper Bob Lootens will lead a Prairie Wildflowers walk on Saturday, June 27th at 9 AM. Interested folks can meet at the Margaret Pearson Interpretive Trail parking lot on the Fermilab site. Enter the Laboratory from Kirk Road, on Pine Street. Check for details on the FNA Calendar.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Help Wanted!

If you love Fermilab and our natural areas, and if you would like to help out in a very material and important way, volunteer to help us with our fundraising efforts. The model we want to pursue to raise money for projects is primarily to write grant proposals to fund individual projects that address the three main parts of our mission: restoration, community, and ecology research.

If you have some experience in writing grants or other fundraising, send us an email at fermilabnaturalareas@gmail.com.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Bird Sightings

At yesterday's Ecological Land Management Committee meeting, Peter Kasper, Fermilab physicist, made a report regarding recent bird sightings. The sightings, and many photos, are maintained in an online diary.