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Other Activities > Upcoming Events
Great Backyard Bird Count - February 17-20, 2012
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The annual President's Day Weekend event is an opportunity for you to count the birds in your backyard, or join GOAS as we host counts over the weekend. You can report your
findings to the GBBC website, view your results or compare with other counts across the country. For more information or to get started, go to GBBC. The Great
Backyard Bird Count is hosted by Audubon, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Canadian partner Bird Studies Canada. Contact Charley Burwick for more information.
Green Leadership Academy for Diverse Ecosystems
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Green Leadership Academy prepares for its third season
The Missouri State University (MSU) Biology Department and the Greater Ozarks Audubon Society (GOAS) are proud to announce that they will again host an all
expenses paid, residential, ecology academy at the Bull Shoals Field Station BSFS from June 19-25, 2011 for sixteen high school students entering their junior and senior years.
GLADE is a project of Greater Ozarks Audubon Society and Missouri State University in partnership with the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC). Our newest supporter is
the Springfield Plateau Master Naturalist organization, providing volunteers for our Mentors Teams!
The 2011 season is made possible through grants from
National Audubon Society's TogetherGreen Innovation program, the
Community Foundation of the Ozarks CFO,
the L-A-D (Leo A. Drey) Foundation, and
The North Face's Planet Explore program.
Greg Swick, GLADE Director received a 2010 TogetherGreen Fellowship to develop a conservation leadership academy handbook and foster GLADE sustainability.
As we enter our third year of this multiple-year project, we appreciate last season's support from businesses, organizations, and individuals who share our passion to connect High School
kids to nature. Support GLADE 2011! Sponsor a student this summer, or find out other ways you can help.
Learn More:
GLADE on YouTube
GLADE Brochure
Information for Educators
GLADE Application
GLADE Website
Press Release
Green Team on Facebook
The GLADE project aims to:
- attract highly motivated teens from rural communities
- increase their ecological knowledge and awareness of nature and the impacts of their actions
- expose them to environmental professionals and potential career opportunities
- restore habitat that is globally and regionally critical to species in Missouri
- develop leadership skills necessary to plan and carry-out conservation action projects in their communities
Post-academy projects introduce GLADE's goals to larger audiences, attract candidates in succeeding years, and reinforce the peer-mentored aspects of the academy. The GLADE project
serves as a model for ecoregion-based youth conservation leadership development.
Students conduct hands-on giant cane or glade habitat restoration at
Drury-Mincy Conservation Area, an MDC Conservation Opportunity Area (COA), located in one of Missouri’s Important Bird Areas IBA. The residential camp utilizes facilities at Bull Shoals Field
Station BSFS of MSU, which operates to promote research and provide educational programs that increase public understanding of southwest Missouri ecosystems.
Join us for a week in the woods...
Christmas Bird Counts
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Most of the counters who will set out armed with a notepad and binoculars, often bundled against the cold, are
not trained scientists. They are everyday people, volunteers. That's why we call the CBC "crowd science". Plan to participate in the 112th
annual CBC and join citizen scientists who are monitoring birds in over 2020 CBC circles across the country. Citizen Science is a way for
you to connect with the natural world through fun activities that generate vital information for the conservation of birds. This partnership
with scientists benefits us all: you will learn about birds by taking part, and Audubon's science staff
gains invaluable information. Most importantly, the birds benefit because it helps Audubon focus on those birds and habitats that need our
help most. By saving the birds and their habitats, we also save ourselves. If you would like to participate, come to the CBC organizational
meeting, Thursday, December 8 at 7:00 pm at the Springfield Conservation Nature Center, or contact Springfield CBC coordinator
David Blevins or Taney County CBC coordinator Charley Burwick for more information.
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