Media share free ‘signs of spring’ training opportunities
The Sun Journal posted a media release about four free “Signs of the Seasons” training sessions for volunteer citizen scientists offered by University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant. Sessions are: March 16, 4–6:30 p.m., Gilsland Farm Audubon Center, 20 Gilsland Farm Road, Falmouth;
March 23, 4–6:30 p.m., Audubon Fields Pond Station, 216 Fields Pond Road, Holden; April 8, 4–6:30 p.m., SeDoMoCha Middle School, 63 Harrison Ave., Dover-Foxcroft; and April 27, 12:30-3 p.m., Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, 342 Laudholm Farm Road, Wells. Participants will be trained to observe the signs of spring — budding leaves, blooming flowers, peeping frogs, singing birds — that are indicators of a larger cycle of seasonal changes that affect plants, animals and people of Maine. Register online. For more information or to request a reasonable accommodation, contact Esperanza Stancioff, 207.832.0343, esp@maine.edu. Morning Ag Clips also posted the release.