Okay, okay. You won’t actually become a Junior Woodchuck Fossil Specialist if you take part in the following training series, but you’ll be pretty darn close!
The San Bernardino County Museum is pleased to announce the Fall 2010 dates for the BLM Site Stewardship Program for the Upper Las Vegas Wash. The spring training went extremely well and the stewards have completed their first quarterly site monitoring with good results (there are definitely fossils still coming out of the ground in these parcels)!! We will be sharing the success of the Site Stewardship program in a presentation entitled “Paleontologic Site Stewardship on Federal Land in Nevada; a model for promoting citizen science” at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meetings in Pittsburg this Fall.
The Paleontology Site Stewardship training program is intended for laypersons who have a strong interest in protecting paleontologic resources on their public lands and the desire to participate in real life “Citizen Science”.
The dates are as follows:
Site Stewardship Classroom Workshop
October 1 – 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
October 2 – 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Site Stewardship Field training
October 23 – 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
October 24 – 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
We will accept the first 36 people who RSVP directly to Kathleen Springer, Senoir Curator, at: (909) 307-2669 ext. 242 or kspringer@sbcm.sbcounty.gov.
Even woodchucks need company. 21 of the spaces are already filled. Popular, wouldn’t you say. Please RSVP soon if you want to join us on the adventures!!!!