ENHS Nature Trails - Vol. 33, No. 2, Feb. 1999

Nature Trails
Published by the Eugene Natural History Society
Volume Thirty-three, Number Two, February 1999

Table of Contents

Feature: This month's speaker: Ed Alverson

President's column: "Slow and steady wins again: turtles leap-from up the reptilian tree," by Nathan Tublitz

Article: "Update on the Riverfront Research Park," by Nathan Tublitz

Calendar: Upcoming Events

A n n o u n c e m e n t s
Volunteers Needed: Explore Nature with Children Mount Pisgah Arboretum is seeking inspired, enthusiastic and concerned volunteers interested in providing hands-on Environmental Education for the children in our community. Volunteers work as nature guides leading elementary school children on tours to study the forest or waterways of the Arboretum. As students explore the wonder of nature around them- seeds of interest, love and appreciation are sown. For many children, this experience sparks a hidden sense of their own connection to all life. If you love nature and would enjoy sharing that love with children, please help support this vital program. Volunteers receive free natural history training and educational materials and are required to lead a minimum of one morning tour per week (April 19-June 11). Training begins March 29. For more information, or an application, call the Arboretum's Education Office at 747-1504.	Change in our Lecture Schedule Due to the upcoming birth of a child, our speaker for April, Dr. Jack Mortenson, has had to cancel his talk until next year. In his place, we have schedule a talk by Dr. Robert Scheppler, the retired director of public programs at the McDonald Observatory in Arizona. Dr. Scheppler is an outstanding speaker who has amused and amazed audiences at the McDonald Observatory for years. We are very lucky to be able to convince him to talk to us. He will be talking about various astronomical events in the April sky and if the weather is on our side, he has agreed to take us outside after the talk and point out some of the more interesting sites in the sky. This promises to be a wonderfully engaging and informative presentation for astronomers of all ages.

A n n o u n c e m e n t s

Volunteers Needed: Explore Nature with Children

Mount Pisgah Arboretum is seeking inspired, enthusiastic and concerned volunteers interested in providing hands-on Environmental Education for the children in our community. Volunteers work as nature guides leading elementary school children on tours to study the forest or waterways of the Arboretum. As students explore the wonder of nature around them- seeds of interest, love and appreciation are sown. For many children, this experience sparks a hidden sense of their own connection to all life.

If you love nature and would enjoy sharing that love with children, please help support this vital program. Volunteers receive free natural history training and educational materials and are required to lead a minimum of one morning tour per week (April 19-June 11).

Training begins March 29. For more information, or an application, call the Arboretum's Education Office at 747-1504.

Change in our Lecture Schedule

Due to the upcoming birth of a child, our speaker for April, Dr. Jack Mortenson, has had to cancel his talk until next year. In his place, we have schedule a talk by Dr. Robert Scheppler, the retired director of public programs at the McDonald Observatory in Arizona. Dr. Scheppler is an outstanding speaker who has amused and amazed audiences at the McDonald Observatory for years. We are very lucky to be able to convince him to talk to us. He will be talking about various astronomical events in the April sky and if the weather is on our side, he has agreed to take us outside after the talk and point out some of the more interesting sites in the sky. This promises to be a wonderfully engaging and informative presentation for astronomers of all ages.

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