Endangered Species Day

ENDANGERED SPECIES DAY

PHAS will sponsor a meeting on Friday May 15th about Endangered Species, likely by Zoom.  6:00 pm- 9:00 pm. We expect a speaker from the USFWS about Federal listed species in SD and pre recorded speaker segments  on the Rice Whale and attacks that have been happening at federal level  in the last year and likely to continue… Both of these will be recorded by staff of the Endangered Species Coalition – Jewel Tomasula and a lady whose name I forget.  We have been doing this evey year, except first Covid year, since Congress created ESD about 20 years ago. It is a multiple group sponsored e

ENDANGERED SPECIES CHALK ART EVENT- Contest May 1st- May 17th, 2026

Visit the web page to learn about it – 

https://www.endangered.org/endangered-species-chalk-art-event/

There is a nationwide competition that the Endangered Species Coalition sponsors every year – . There are prizes. This year the prizes  range from $25-$250 for best drawings of endangered species by chalk medium.  There are 5 age classes with first ($100) second ($50) and third ($25) prizes. There is a grand prize for most liked photo on social media of $250 and a $50 prize for best bat picture. There are lottery winners of T-shirts and  chocolates (just entering qualifies you for the lottery)

Locations of drawings can be outdoors on sidewalks, parking lots, your garage –  etc (with permission to do so).

Between May 1^st and May 17t, PHAS will sponsor or help organize some events related to the Endangered Species Chalk Art Event competition – Events will be announced on our calendar and Facebook page. We have had two already – at Rapid City Earth Day and La Creek National Wildlife Refuge… We left chalk & handouts there (at the Refuge) We will have a chalk art event at the American Bird Conservancy’s Bird Bash event at Bear Butte State Park on May 16th which occurs at 8-1 pm (we will supply chalk and guidance). Call Nancy at 605-787-6466, nhilshat@rapidnet.com, 

PHAS will help sponsor an event on Endangered Species Day on May 15th, It will at least be a Zoom meeting and perhaps a Face-to-Face meeting making it hybrid.

Here are some PHAS handouts related to Chalk Art Event

PHAS review of Chalk Art event for SD participants – a hand out you can print and hand out

https://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/ChalkArt2026_FinalQQZ_AmericanBuryingBeetle-10.pdf

Here is link to reference guide showing URL  links and QR codes of  IUCN red list, federal, USA state”s and a few tribes T & E species lists   https://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/Claude_TE-_species_lists_reference.pdf

 

Here is a guide to find  QR codes and URL links public domain, free and creative commons photos  (html and pdf versions) https://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/claudewildlife.plant3_image_resources.html%0A

https://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/Claude.wildlife.plant3_image_resources-3.pdf

Guide to copy right issues with using photos in chalk art  (if you make money from your copy, you can’t copy photos exactly if copyrighted) – https://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/chalk_copyright_v2_sources_first-2.z9.pdf  We doubt children would be copying exactly, but that could be an issue for adults/