August 27, 2008
Firewise Home Ignition Course
Greetings all!Here is a great opportunity to get in some continuing education hours! The Firewise Home Ignition Zone course will increase your understanding of wildfire behavior and explain how to protect your property and your community from devastating fire loss. The Greater Flagstaff Forests Partnership is sponsoring a Firewise Home Ignition Zone course with instructors from the Flagstaff Fire Department and University of Arizona Cooperative Extension.
Dates: September 12, 19, and 26
Time: 8:30 - 12:30
Location: AZ Game & Fish (3500 South Lake Mary Road)
Fee: $10 (this is a real deal!)
Further details: See attached press release.
Contact Mariel Watt at the Coconino County U of A Agricultural Extension office at (928) 774-1868 ext 10 for registration details.
August 23, 2008
Calling all Weed Warriors & Thistle Thugs!
Northern Arizona Audubon is having another work day on the east Rio de Flag. We will be picking up trash and digging up non-native, invasive thistle and other noxious weeds.
Date:
Saturday, September 6th
Time: 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. (or whenever you get tired and decide to leave)
Directions:
From Flagstaff, go north on Hwy 89 toward Page, past the Mall
Turn right onto Townsend/Winona road
Go approx 4.5 miles and turn left onto dirt road. (If you get to Slayton Ranch Rd, you've just passed us).
Go left at the fork in the road and follow it down to the Rio (you'll see all the other cars there).
We will have a banner and a couple of folks out by the road at 9:00, so we shouldn't be hard to find.
Please bring:
Gloves, hat, sunscreen, water and a folding chair or bucket to sit on for lunch. Shovels, spades and other implements of weed destruction. I also recommend wearing long pants and a long-sleeved shirt.
County Supervisor Deb Hill has graciously offered to provide lunch for our volunteers, so PLEASE let me know if you are planning to come out and help, no later than Tuesday, September 2nd, so we can plan for enough food.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Kathie Satterfield
N. AZ Audubon
Volunteer Coordinator
928-522-0375
k.satterfield@yahoo.com
August 15, 2008
Volunteer at the Coconino County Fair!
This is a great opportunity to staff the Rainwater Harvesting display at the Coconino County Fair. Volunteer for a three-hour block and receive a complementary fair ticket. The display will include a rain barrel, poster, information about rainwater harvesting and gravity drip irrigation. This activity will also give you an opportunity to promote the 2008 Master Naturalist/Watershed Steward program. E-mail warzecha@cals.arizona.edu for more information.
Please contact Mariel at 958-774-1868 × 10 to sign up for a 3-hour block of time:
Please check the PDF file below for dates and times.
Time blocks will be filled on a first-come, first serve basis.
August 14, 2008
2008 Master Naturalist/Watershed Steward Program to Begin
The 2008 Master Naturalist/Watershed Steward program is scheduled to begin on September 11th. Please encourage anyone you know who has an interest in our natural environment to sign up for the 2008 program. Let them know about all the phenomenal experiences you have had with your volunteer work! Anything you can do encourage folks to participate in the program is much appreciated. Given current funding, I'm not sure if I'll be able to offer this next year unless we get a good turnout this fall - so please let people know about the 2008 program!
Refer to the link below for program details and application:
MN-MWS_appl_2pg_08.pdf
August 13, 2008
Volunteer Opportunity at Willow Bend!
See the link below for a flyer describing the volunteer field trip training session.
Willow Bend Fall 2008 Volunteer Teacher Field Trip Training Application
