After reading yesterday's post about making your own field guides, you might be looking for a place where you can find some specimens; or maybe, you're just looking for a nice place to get away.
The National Wildlife Federation's Nature Find can help you with that. By entering your zip code, city, or state, selecting a distance radius, and hitting search, you'll discover parks, wildlife refuges, hiking trails, and other nature-related sites near you.
Even if you think you know your area pretty well, using Nature Find might reveal some place you overlooked.
Showing posts with label field guides. Show all posts
Showing posts with label field guides. Show all posts
05 June 2011
04 June 2011
Guide Yourself
I happened upon a neat idea for connecting with nature. This is especially great if you have young children.
The idea is to make field guides of plants and animals where you live. How often do we find ourselves running to our professionally produced field guides to find out about a new species we have seen? Now, we can become the experts ourselves. Check out ideas for building field guides here and here.
I think making field guides of our own is such a great way to become more familiar with the world around us. As the links suggest, it can also be a wonderful experience for our families. Additionally, the guides could become important records of both the workings of nature where we live and the activities and experiences of the people we love.
One idea I would add to those discussed in the links would be to put together some field guides based on different times of the year. For example, you could have a guide for winter species, for birds that appear during the migration periods (fall and spring), and for birds that stay throughout the summer.
The idea is to make field guides of plants and animals where you live. How often do we find ourselves running to our professionally produced field guides to find out about a new species we have seen? Now, we can become the experts ourselves. Check out ideas for building field guides here and here.
I think making field guides of our own is such a great way to become more familiar with the world around us. As the links suggest, it can also be a wonderful experience for our families. Additionally, the guides could become important records of both the workings of nature where we live and the activities and experiences of the people we love.
One idea I would add to those discussed in the links would be to put together some field guides based on different times of the year. For example, you could have a guide for winter species, for birds that appear during the migration periods (fall and spring), and for birds that stay throughout the summer.
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