[Riverweb] Champaign Frog Call Survey Training

[csmith at prairierivers.org]

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FROG CALL SURVEY TRAINING

Are you interested in becoming a volunteer frog call surveyor?  If so, the
Champaign County Forest Preserve District and the Urbana Park District are
looking for you.  We need your help monitoring frog calls on District
lands.

We will be providing initial training to become Frog Call Surveyors on

Thursday, February 7, 2008
 From 6:30 to 8:30 pm

Training is at the Salt Fork Center (formerly the Outdoor Recreation
center) in the Homer Lake Forest Preserve in Champaign County.
For detailed directions visit www.ccfpd.org.

The commitment we need from our volunteers includes:
- At least two training sessions per year (one classroom, one in the field).
- A minimum of 10 hours of call surveys in the field per year.
- Timely reports from the field.

Other good stuff to know
- Most of the surveying will be done in the spring and early summer.
- Surveying time is flexible to your schedule.
- Evening work is necessary (that is when the frogs are at their best).
- No experience is necessary to become a surveyor.
- Volunteer and training time counts towards Master Naturalist hours.
- This is real data that the Districts will use for future management
decisions.


Space is limited so please RSVP to dolson at ccfpd.org for the Feb. 7, 2008
training.  Please include ?frog call? in the title line.  We hope to see
you there.




Daniel J. Olson
Director of Natural Resources
Champaign County Forest Preserve District
P.O. Box 1040
Mahomet, IL  61853
Phone - (217) 586-4389
Fax - (217) 586-6852


***PLEASE NOTE NEW ADDRESS***

Cecily Smith
Interim Watershed Organizer
Prairie Rivers Network
1902 Fox Drive, Suite G
Champaign IL 61820
217.344.2371