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SUMMARY:Endangered Species Week Chalk drawing competition
DESCRIPTION:Endangered Species Week Chalk drawing competition \nThe competition will occur from Saturday\, May 11th\, 2024 to Sunday\, May 19th.\nFriday\, May 17th is Endangered Species Day\nIn honor of Endangered Species Day\, Endangered Species Coalition is holding a nationwide\, all-ages chalk art competition that anyone can participate in\, from wherever you live. This event will help raise awareness of the importance of endangered wildlife\, and the Endangered Species Coalition will be giving away a variety of prizes\, including a $250 Grand Prize for the best artwork and a number of small prizes just for participating! \nTo enter the contest\, you must post a photo of your chalk art on Instagram or FaceBook between 9:00am Pacific Time on Friday\, May 17th and 11:59pm Pacific Time on Sunday\, May 19th. \n—— \nTo be eligible for a prize\, your art must feature at least one threatened or endangered plant or animal species\, and it must be created with chalk. Artwork must be new (created within the previous week – no reusing photos of old chalk art). There are no other restrictions and we encourage you to be creative. \nTo enter the contest\, you must post a photo of your chalk art on Instagram or FaceBook between 9:00am Pacific Time on Friday\, May 17th and 11:59pm Pacific Time on Sunday\, May 19th. \nYou must use the hashtag #EndangeredSpeciesChalkArt and tag @endangeredspeciescoalition in your caption. This allows us to find your artwork! \nIf your account is private\, you will need to temporarily make it public\, for one week starting on May 17th\, so that we can find and see your post. If you do not have an Instagram or Facebook account currently\, we encourage you to create one to participate! If this is not possible for you for some reason\, please reach out to us. Parents\, guardians\, or teachers may post art for children or students who want to participate. \nPlease direct questions or concerns to Tara at tthornton@endangered.org. \nFor more details: \nhttps://www.endangered.org/endangered-species-chalk-art-event/?link_id=1&can_id=894d0cc0d439d8d2425a681aec9625bc&source=email-endangered-species-day-is-almost-here-2&email_referrer=email_2291315&email_subject=endangered-species-day-is-just-weeks-away-join-the-celebration-at-home-or-at-an-event \nPhoto of sidewalk with chalk drawings by USFWS
URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/endangered-species-week-chalk-drawing-competition/
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SUMMARY:Climate Watch\, Spring/Summer season 5/15/24-6/15/24
DESCRIPTION:Climate Watch is Audubon’s biannual community science program that enlists volunteer bird-lovers across North America to tally for twelve target bird species \nClimate Watch – Summer Season – May 15th-June 15th\, 2024 Climate Watch \nClimate Watch is sponsored by the National Audubon Society (NAS) & takes place during two distinct seasons—winter (January 15-February 15) and summer (May 15-June 15). Below is the alert for any season (winter or summer) . \nLike the Christmas bird count this is a chance to help create “citizen science” for birds. Climate Watch focuses on these target species: Eastern Bluebird\, Mountain Bluebird\, Western Bluebird\, White-breasted Nuthatch\, Red-breasted Nuthatch\, Brown-headed Nuthatch\, Pygmy Nuthatch\, American Goldfinch\, Lesser Goldfinch\, Painted Bunting\, Eastern Towhee\, and Spotted Towhee. \nThese birds are easy to identify\, have an enthusiastic constituency\, and Audubon’s climate models for these species offer strong predictions for range shifts for us to test. In future years\, Climate Watch may include additional target species threatened by climate change. We believe that western bluebird and painted bunting are not normally in SD. All the other birds occur in all or parts of SD. \nVisit this page to see where these birds are in SD\, and which are near you: \nhttps://www.sdakotabirds.com/species_main.htm\nLocation Climate Watch focuses on areas of predicted change for these 12 species at each location across the continent. Audubon provides volunteers with online mapping tools with a grid of 10 km x 10 km squares showing species-specific predictions for each square based on the climate models. A Climate Watch Coordinator can help select your location and survey square. If you are participating on your own\, use the online maps to decide in which square to do your surveys. You will be able to see which squares are already “claimed”. \nHow to count Volunteers should first make sure to read through all of the materials including the full protocol manual. The Climate Watch protocol is different than any other birding program. Then using the planning done with the online maps\, volunteers survey appropriate habitat for the target species within a square and conduct 12 point counts of five minutes each within one morning\, then record the number and species of all birds seen or heard within 100 meters. Participants send the data to the National Audubon Society. \nHow data will be used  Audubon’s 2019 climate change report\, ‘Survival By Degrees\, – https://www.audubon.org/climate/survivalbydegrees – reveals that up to two-thirds of North American birds are vulnerable to extinction due to climate change. For example\, the beautiful Mountain Bluebird is vulnerable because in the vast majority of its summer range\, the climate conditions that this bird needs—temperature\, amount of rainfall\, and other environmental factors—will shift northward and eastward. This bird may be able to move into new areas over time\, or it may struggle to adapt. To test the report’s predictions\, Audubon has developed Climate Watch\, which aims to document species’ responses to climate change and test Audubon’s climate models by having volunteers in the field look for birds where Audubon’s climate models predict they will be in the 2020s. This information helps Audubon target our conservation work to protect birds. See the Climate Watch results page here to see our early reports and results from the data received by Climate Watch volunteers so far! \nLink to the Climate-watch program on the National Audubon Society web page \nhttps://www.audubon.org/conservation/climate-watch \nClimate watch instructions for participants \nhttps://www.audubon.org/news/participant-resources-climate-watch\nClimate watch for beginners webinar\, – this has much of the same info as our November meeting \nhttps://audubon.zoom.us/rec/share/xe9NAZTe6WVOf7fz2kbRAYAQMI66eaa8hCFL_fNZn0k3a8uNjHkvp4-EZzq7vlq_?startTime=1588186808000
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SUMMARY:Endangered Species Day Celebration - 2024
DESCRIPTION:Above photo is of Noreen\, who is one of three cloned black footed ferrets\,  photo taken by Kika Tuff \n\nEndangered Species Day is a celebration of our nation’s wildlife & wild places.  Started in 2006 by the US Congress\, Endangered Species Day (ESD) is the third Friday of May.  We have celebrated ESD in Rapid City with  a multi-group sponsored event for 16 years.\n\n        Our 2024  celebration for western SD will begin at 6 pm MT on 5/17/24\, by Zoom and end by 9 pm MT.  We will have several speakers\, who will talk about federal and state listed threatened and endangered species. Scroll down for Zoom details. \nAGENDA:\n\n\n6:00 pm –  Introduction by Sponsors\n\n6:05  pm – 7:00  pm MT –  Speaker:  Christopher Swanson\, Field Supervisor\, North and South Dakota Ecological Services\, US Fish and Wildlife Service – He will speak on – “Recovery of Endangered Species across South Dakota: latest updates on species conservation\, emerging challenges\, and ESA regulatory revisions.”\n.\n7:00  pm – 7:55  pm MT – Speaker:  Eileen Dowd Stukel\, Senior Wildlife Diversity Biologist\, SD Game\, Fish and Parks  – Eileen will discuss the 10 year review and revision of the State’s Wildlife Action Plan & the biennial review by GFP Commission of our state listed species. She will provide a brief update on status of Recovering America’s Wildlife Act in the US Congress.\n\n5 minute break\n\n8:00 pm- 8:55 pm  MT – Speaker: – Chalmer Combellick\, Wildlife Biologist\, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe – Chalmer will speak on tribal efforts to recover federally and state listed species and other species culturally significant to the tribes.\n\nRecordings of past ESD celebrations are on our recordings web site. https://phas-wsd.org/recorded-meetings/ \nCo-sponsors include: Prairie Hills Audubon Society\, Western Watersheds Project\, Rapid City Chapter of the Izaak Walton League\, Black Hills Chapter of Dakota Rural Action\,  Black Hills Clean Water Alliance\, The Norbeck Society\, Black Hills Chapter of Citizen’s Climate Lobby\, \nZoom meeting details: \nTopic: Endangered Species Day Celebration\nTime: Friday\, May 17th\, 2024\, 6 pm MT \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85433920233?pwd=QmxYUDMvMGRrNW9yRmVON3VPU0dRZz09 \nMeeting ID: 854 3392 0233\nPasscode: 534620 \n— \nOne tap mobile\n+16694449171\,\,85433920233#\,\,\,\,*534620# US\n+16699006833\,\,85433920233#\,\,\,\,*534620# US (San Jose) \n— \nDial by your location (as far as we know all work in western SD – but you need meeting ID/Passcode to access meeting)\n• +1 669 444 9171 US\n• +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n• +1 719 359 4580 US\n• +1 253 205 0468 US\n• +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n• +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n• +1 689 278 1000 US\n• +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n• +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n• +1 305 224 1968 US\n• +1 309 205 3325 US\n• +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n• +1 360 209 5623 US\n• +1 386 347 5053 US\n• +1 507 473 4847 US\n• +1 564 217 2000 US\n• +1 646 931 3860 US \nMeeting ID: 854 3392 0233\nPasscode: 534620 \nFind your local number (mostly other countries) : https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbb9dO0PBV \n============================================= \n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \n========================================================= \nHELP SPREAD THE WORD! \nWe have this announcement on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/3527418304178046/ \nWe have 5 posters for this event (ESDC) \, that feature photos of different animals\, with QR codes. If anyone wants to print the posters and put up on bulletin boards it would help spread the word.  Or you can download the PDF & forward a poster to friends.\n\n\nESDC Poster with Black Footed Ferret & Osprey Photos with QR Code\, legal size:\nhttps://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/ESD-2024.FP3_.QRCode.Legal_.Osprey.pdf\n\nESDC Poster with Black Footed Ferret  & Northern Long Eared Bat Photos with QR Code\, legal size:\nhttps://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/ESD-2024.FP3_.QRCode.Legal_.NorthernLEB.pdf\n\nESDC Poster with Osprey Photo with QR Code\, letter size:\nhttps://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/ESD24.Letter.Poster.osprey.QR_.FP_.pdf\n\nESDC Poster with Black Footed Ferret with QR Code\, letter size:\nhttps://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/ESD24.Letter.Poster.ferret.QR_.FP_.pdf\n\nESDC Poster with a Cluster of Tri-colored Bats with QR Code\, letter size:\nhttps://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/ESD24.Letter.Poster.QR_.custerTCB.FP_.pdf\n 
URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/endangered-species-day-celebration-2024/
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