Urban Wildlife Ecology & Management Conference

[urbpan]

Thanks again to miz_geek  for pointing me toward the Urban Wildlife Ecology & Management Conference.  I really would have kicked myself if I found out about it after the fact, or too late to participate.  Today I'll be joining a field trip in Chelsea Mass, to see an area that a group called the Urban Ecology Institute (out of Boston College) has been restoring.  Tomorrow I'll go to the conference itself, in western Mass, staying at my Dad's house for a couple days--it's a much easier drive than from Boston.  I'm not really sure what to expect, but I'm very excited.  I'm eager to absorb as much information as possible, find new resources for the kind of information I like and use, and meet other people interested in urban nature. 

There are plenty of symposium topics being discussed that justify using paid education time for the time off, including both wildlife management (vertebrate pest control, in my context) and wildlife conservation.  One of the presenters is someone who has been doing work with endangered Blanding's turtles, which have come through the zoo hospital as part of the work (hatchlings are collected and raised in captivity, then released when pressure from predators is less). 

After the conference I'll be making some kind of presentation at the zoo about it. I'll also share whatever is particularly interesting in this journal, since I've been depriving you of anything but pictures of the same river and the same dogs. 

I'm happy that the field trip is in Chelsea, a part of the city I never visit.  I knew the field trip was in the Boston area, and was worried I'd be hearing a lot of too familiar information.  This should be a completely new experience.  I hope to learn enough to do a good Urban Nature Walk in Chelsea next month.

Comments

[hhw]

I wish it were 2 months later, when I could be there. but perhaps it won't be a decade before someone organizes another one. I look forward to reading your entries about it.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

They're aiming at doing one in Texas in 2011 or 2012.

[miz-geek.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you're going! I hope you find it interesting and/or useful and not too annoyingly academic.

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

Where in Chelsea?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Mill Creek, behind the Home Depot.

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

That's about a fifteen minute walk from my house. :)