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Bats in Cities and Suburbs: A Virtual Presentation with Bats Northwest
Date: Thursday, November 12th
Time: 6-7PM
Location: Online via Zoom
Class Fee: Pay what you can: $10, $15, or $20
Join Bats Northwest educator and author Niki Desautels for a evening all about bats in our cities and suburbs. This virtual presentation will cover some important bat basics before looking at how and why bats have adapted to live in developed areas, from cities to the suburbs. How do we coexist with our bat neighbors, and what can we do to protect these important species anywhere we live, work, play?
About Bats Northwest
Bats Northwest is a nonprofit organization formed in 1996 by scientists, educators, and interested lay people to help protect Pacific Northwest bat populations through education and research. Bats Northwest envisions a future where the essential role of bats is understood, where the public recognizes the vital place of bats in our environment and economy, and where all are inspired by bats’ remarkable attributes and invaluable contribution to our natural heritage.
Nature Journaling – I Notice, I Wonder, It Reminds Me
Location: Tahoma Bird Alliance Conference Room, 2917 Morrison Rd West 98466
Date: Saturday November 14th, 10AM-12:30PM
Class Fee: $20 Members, $30 Non-Members
Join us for this hands-on workshop, Introduction to Nature Journaling in which participants will create journal entries using the framework of 'I Notice, I Wonder, It Reminds Me', developed by John Muir Laws and Roseann Hanson of the Wild Wonder Foundation.
We will be using words, pictures, and numbers to document our
interactions with nature, record our wonder (in both senses of the word, questions and awe) and express our human interactions through a process of asking what an aspect of nature brings to mind. We will use writing, drawing/painting (no experience needed) and measuring to create our journal pages.
Direct observation of specimens and subjects in the Visitor Center, and, weather permitting, a brief very short walk outside to both record and express our experience will provide the framework!
The only requirement is to bring a sense of wonder for the natural world around us.
About the Instructor
Beverly Choltco-Devlin is a Certified Nature Journaling Educator through the Wild Wonder Foundation who has taught nature journaling, drawing and watercolor here at the Tahoma Bird Alliance, and also at the North Cascade’s Institute, several local artist associations, Tacoma Public Library and regularly at the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.
She is a member of Wild Wonder’s online community Wonderland, the Puget Sound Nature Journaling Group, the Guild for Nature and Science Illustrators, the Northwest Watercolor Society, Puget Sound Sumi Artists, South Hill Artists, and Kent Valley Artists and an Official Forest Service Volunteer at the Billy Frank Jr / Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.
