Biodiversity Days (fwd)

[Robert A. (Bob) Morris]

This is the second such event, as described on their web site. The
coordinator, Peter Alden, is the author a number of National Audubon
Society Field Guides. His "prototype" event was in 1998, limited to
Walden Pond. See
http://www.walden.org/scholarship/a/Alden_Peter/INTROS.htm

--Bob Morris


Peter Rauch writes:
 > Date:         Tue, 29 May 2001 07:31:22 -0700
 > From: Peter Rauch <peterr at socrates.berkeley.edu>
 > To: TAXACOM at usobi.org
 > Subject:      Biodiversity Days (fwd)
 >
 > [Here's an interesting public awareness initiative, crossposted
 > from fwim-l. Check out their website. Peter]
 >
 > Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 10:29:52 -0700
 > To: FWIM-L at LISTSERV.VT.EDU
 > Crossposted from the Defender's of Wildlife WildLines
 >
 > * The Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
 > has recruited more than 20,000 people (largely volunteers) to
 > undertake a statewide three-day survey called "Biodiversity
 > Days" to catalogue every species of plant and animal they can
 > find, both common and rare.  Biologists figure there are about
 > 15,000 visible species in the state.  The results will be fed
 > into a state database to help determine the health of the
 > state's species.  For more information call Peter Alden, the
 > state Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, at (617)
 > 626-1192 of visit http://www.state.ma.us/envir/biodiversity.htm.
 >