Let’s Go Wildlife Watching

LIVING IN NEW YORK CITY? LONGING TO CONNECT WITH NATURE? CONSIDER THE URBAN NATURALIST PROGRAM AT THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN

https://www.nybg.org/learn/adult-education/urban-naturalist-certificate-program/

A quick look at the website summarizes the program this way:

This five-week program focuses on vascular and non-vascular plants, invertebrates and vertebrates of New York City’s uplands and coastal wetland ecosystems, emphasizing the critical conservation issues facing each locale. Classroom lectures and hands-on activities are complimented with classes in the field and working excursions in the Thain Family Forest, Bronx River, Central Park, and Pelham Bay Park, among other locations.

 

Chris Arenella, a friend and member of Wildlife Watch, told us about the program.  She said, When I learned that the New York Botanical Garden was offering a new program called Urban Naturalist that teaches students how to become stewards of our urban environment, I signed up.

During my field trips, I have learned to see nature with a new intimacy. My eyes have begun to focus more clearly on the not-so-apparent.  I’m now even more protective of our urban natural environment. I can now identify a flower I always knew as Queen Anne’s Lace as Daucus carota, or wild carrot.

If you’ve had an enjoyable wildlife watching experience that others will be able to have as well, please share it with us. Photos needed.

Please send to: wildwatch@verizon.net