[All] City of Kitchener Turtle Study

[Neil E. Taylor]

Hi Neil,

 

Hope all is well and you are finding time to enjoy the spring migration.  I
am not sure if I have mentioned this to you yet but this summer The City of
Kitchener is conducting a research and monitoring study on the Blanding's
turtle in Kitchener and other wetland sites in Waterloo Region.  

 

As part of our project we are preparing to launch a citizen science
monitoring component to identify the level of road mortality for Blanding's
(and other turtle species) in Waterloo Region.  We are beginning to recruit
volunteers for this part of the research project and are hoping that KWFN
members will be interested in participating.  

 

We will be hosting a training session for volunteers on Monday May 17th at
the Huron Natural Area (school portable) at 7pm.  If you are interested in
volunteering with our study (approx 1hr/wk - June, July) or have any
questions, please let me know.   

 

Could you please pass this information along to any fellow KWFN members that
you have contact information for?  We will also be notifying the membership
on May 31st but would like to begin training soon so that monitors can begin
checking their areas at the beginning of the turtle nesting season.

 

Thank-you for all your assistance with this and you can direct all inquiries
to my contact information below,

 

Josh Shea

Natural Area Coordinator

City of Kitchener

Design and Development, Operations Division 
Community Services Department 
Tel (519)-741-3400 ext 3349 
Fax (519)-741-2700 
TTY (519)-741-2385

Joshua.Shea at kitchener.ca

 

 

"If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come." - Chinese
Proverb

 

"You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush"  -
John Burroughs (1908) essay: Art of Seeing Things

 

 <mailto:neiletaylor at sympatico.ca> neiletaylor at sympatico.ca

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Neil E. Taylor

1016 Wilson Ave.

Kitchener ON 

N2C 1J2

Tel. 519-893-6469

 

Summer Address: 

1031 Hewitt St.

Gull Lake

Gravenhurst ON

Tel. (705) 687-1234

 

"In the end, we conserve only what we love, we will love only what we
understand and we will understand only what we are taught."  -- Baba Dioum

 

"I have a room all to myself; it is Nature.  It is a place beyond the
jurisdiction of human government." -  (Author unknown)

 

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)

 

"The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration." -
Claude Monet

 

Life Member - Bird Studies Canada (BSC)

Life Member - Ontario Nature (ON)

Life Member - Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO)

Honorary Life Member - (2008) Kitchener-Waterloo Field Naturalists (KWFN)

Conservation Award - (2008) Kitchener-Waterloo Field Naturalists (KWFN)

Life Member - The Society of Uncompromising Men - The Wiserhood

 

 

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