At this time, I need to share a bunch of bulletins, a beautiful shock I acquired final evening, some pictures from this week’s journey to the Niobrara Valley Protect, and a few spring/summer time prairie bingo playing cards. Thanks on your persistence with this omnibus put up.
I’ll begin with an invite to volunteer at The Nature Conservancy’s Platte River Prairies or Niobrara Valley Protect. In case you’ve all the time needed to return go to one among these websites and likewise get pleasure from contributing to conservation efforts, right here’s your likelihood! (In case you simply need to come go to and NOT work, you’re additionally welcome to do this, and each websites have public mountaineering trails simply ready for you.)
On the Platte River Prairies, we host volunteer workdays twice a month all through many of the yr. Yow will discover extra info on these workdays right here. On the Niobrara Valley Protect, Kate Samuelson, our outreach coordinator goes to start out internet hosting volunteer days this summer time. She created a flyer (beneath) with the data it is advisable to know. Potential NVP volunteer days embrace June sixth and tenth and July 18th and twenty ninth. At each websites, we might be able to present in a single day housing for individuals touring from far-off.
Along with volunteering and mountaineering our public trails, one other alternative to go to and be taught will come on July 11, 2026, which is the date of our subsequent public area day on the Platte River Prairies. I’ll share extra info later, however please save the date if you happen to’re . It’ll be a terrific alternative to satisfy our employees, discover each restored and remnant (unplowed) prairies, and be taught prairie ecology, analysis, and land stewardship.
We can even be internet hosting 4 habitat workshops this summer time, aimed toward land homeowners and land managers. At these workshops, we share what we’ve been studying about fireplace, grazing, restoration, and different stewardship practices, in addition to a superb dose of plant identification follow. In case you’re excited by attending one among these free workshops, please contact Kate for extra info (see her contact data within the above flyer for the NVP volunteer days). Habitat workshop days shall be June 9 and August 18 on the Platte River Prairies and Might 19 and August 11 on the Niobrara Valley Protect.
In case you’re searching for one thing to entice you out on a hike within the prairie, both at one among our websites or in some other prairie, I’ve created some bingo playing cards for the spring and summer time seasons. I had a shocking variety of individuals thank me for the final batch I made, so I hope these shall be equally useful. There are three bingo playing cards on the finish of this put up, every with the identical objects to seek out, however in numerous places on the cardboard, in case you might have a number of individuals and it’s useful to non-identical playing cards. Look, don’t let me let you know how one can have a superb time in prairies – I’m simply supplying you with choices!
Lastly, earlier than I simply dump a bunch of current pictures on you, right here’s the terrific shock I acquired final evening. A lot of you’ll find out about Wild Inexperienced Memes For Ecological Fiends. In case you’re on social media and also you’re not conscious of that group, I’m unsure why you’re on social media. Wild Inexperienced Media additionally has different platforms, together with their Wild Inexperienced Streams podcast, on which I appeared final yr.
Nicely, anyway, Rhett Barker, founding father of the Wild Inexperienced Memes for Ecological Fiends, government director of Wild Inexperienced Future, and the one who interviewed me on their podcast, despatched me an electronic mail final evening. Apparently, after listening to about my sq. meter images venture, he was impressed to strive his personal (12-hour) model. The ensuing 10-minute YouTube video is unbelievable and I needed to share it right here. If the video hyperlink beneath doesn’t open for you, please click on on the title of this put up above to open it on-line and that can make the hyperlink energetic.
Okay, on to pictures… Here’s a batch of pictures from the Niobrara Valley Protect this week:
Lastly, as promised, listed here are some bingo playing cards you’ll be able to print out or in any other case make the most of so as to add just a little further enjoyable to your prairie explorations this summer time. Every card has the identical squares/objects, however in numerous orders/places. Take pleasure in!
