You could be a Greenwich Point Ranger!

Have you completed the JR Ranger booklet yet at Greenwich Point?  It's fun and easy!  The full copy is available here:

JR Ranger Booklet (pdf)

More about the Program

Welcome to Greenwich Point! The Point is a wonderful place and one of our town’s most visited parks. It offers a variety of activities for the whole family including the opportunity to see and learn about a variety of natural habitats. The Junior Ranger Program is designed to help you do this. What is a Junior Ranger? A Junior Ranger is:

…an Adventurer

…a Learner

…a Seeker

…a Discoverer
…a Care-taker

A Junior Ranger could be…YOU!

To become a Greenwich Point Junior Ranger you need to:

 -JR Ranger Patch greenwichct.org

• Take the Junior Ranger Pledge (see last page).
• Complete the Ranger Safety page (page 3)
• Visit Greenwich Point at least twice and write about your visits on the journal page (page 7). 
• Attend a nature program at Greenwich Point. These are offered by many different organizations,including the Bruce Museum, Audubon Greenwich, the Friends of Greenwich Point, Soundwaters, the Shellfish Commission, the Greenwich Tree Conservancy, and the Conservation Commission. Check these organizations’ websites for upcoming programs.
• Complete the other activities in this booklet. Each activity is worth a certain number of slipper shells, which can be found on the upper right hand corner of each page. The number of shells you need to collect depends on your age.
• Sign your name on the last page and submit your completed booklet to the Conservation Commission to have your certificate signed and receive your official Junior Ranger patch. 

Citizen Science: Butterfly Atlas

The Yale Peabody recently launched a project called iCBug.

This is a website that is used for identifying butterflies and
tracking sightings in Connecticut.  The site is based on data from the CT
Butterfly Atlas Project.
The site is available at http://www.icbug.org
It is optimized for your
computer, tablet and mobile device.  Registration is simple; you can either
register through the site, Facebook or Twitter.
On the site there are many search features.   You can search by name,
location or even characteristic descriptions. You can also track all of
your observations in Connecticut.  You can add what you saw, how many and
the location.  You can attach images and notes as well.  Your observations
will be added to the latest observations list.  The more observations you
add, the better the location search features will work for other users.

via Connecticut Outdoor & Environmental Education Association