Bring your smartphones and join Twelve Hills Nature Center in the wrap up event for our busy May calendar!
Urban wildlife biologist Sam Kieschnick from Texas Parks and Wildlife will be leading a nature walk class on iNaturalist.
iNaturalist is an online citizen science network and community or, as it is sometimes called, “Facebook for nature nerds.” With a picture, place and time, anyone can add data to our understanding of global biodiversity. It is also a great way to learn the local flora and fauna, as there are many experts that give guidance on the identifications of unknowns. Don’t know what some plant or bug is? Well, take a picture, upload it to iNaturalist, and the community will give you guidance! It is a citizen science tool that’s incredible fun to use too.
Sam Kieschnick is an urban wildlife biologist with TPWD serving the east side of the DFW metroplex. He previously worked as a nature educator with the city of Mansfield at Oliver Nature Park, as a naturalist at the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge, as a science interpreter with the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, as a botanist with BRIT and as an instructor at Weatherford College. He has a master’s degree from Tarleton State University studying the genetics of pocket gophers. As an urban wildlife biologist, Sam’s focus will be on three as: awareness, appreciation and action.
No pets, please.
Space is limited. RSVP: twelvehillsnaturecenter@gmail.com.
817 Mary Cliff Rd
Dallas , TX