Education Programs

EDUCATION PROGRAMS

2017

hoglezoo.org Special Needs Camp & Classes

Zoo Just for You “Zoo Just for You” programming has been developed for students with special needs. Live animals, photographs, skull models, pelts, animal figures and more are used to engage students and demonstrate concepts. Our program utilizes a sensory motor approach where students move between stations and are encouraged to touch, smell and feel all appropriate items. Registration closes one week prior to class date. www.hoglezoo.org/zoojustforyou Cost is $10 per student and includes accompanying caregiver.

Magnificent Mammals On the Wing and in the Bush (ASD and developmental delays, ages 6-18) (Citizen science)(Blind/Low vision, ages 14-25) Do you have what it takes to be a mammal? You bet! From the North Pole to the South Pole, the rainforest Some mammals are larger than school buses, and to the desert, on land, in the sky and even underwater, others are smaller than your little finger, but they all birds are on the move! Discover some amazing bird have three things in common! Discover the three I.D.s species and how to identify them by sight or sound. of a mammal, and find out which ones break the Get the tools you need to become a citizen scientist rules. Class includes a short instructional time with and help track bird migration. Class includes a short pictures, animal artifacts, live animals, interactive play, instructional time with pictures, animal artifacts, live and guided short visit in the Zoo for the child and animals, interactive play, and a guided short visit in the accompanying adult. Zoo for the student and accompanying caregiver. February 15 May 17 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM

No Bones about It Have Talons, Will Hunt (ASD and developmental delays, ages 6-18) (ASD and developmental delays, ages 6-18) Find out what makes bugs “tick” in this hands-on Falcons, hawks and owls, oh my! Discover birds of experience at the Zoo! Meet animals without backbones prey in a whole new way. Meet these aerial predators and learn about the diversity of invertebrate life. Class up-close as your knowledge soars to new heights! Class includes a short instructional time with pictures, animal includes a short instructional time with pictures, animal artifacts, live animals, interactive play, and guided short artifacts, live animals, interactive play, and a guided visit in the Zoo for the child and accompanying adult. short visit in the Zoo for the child and accompanying March 15 adult. 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM October 18 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM What’s the Buzz with Pollinators? (Citizen science) (ASD and developmental Passionate for Primates delays, ages 14-25) (Blind/Low vision, Deaf/Hard of hearing, ages Discover the pollination sensation that’s sweeping the 6-18) nation! Did you know that one of every three bites Who has two thumbs? What classifies a monkey? Do of food grows because of pollinators? Uncover the they really eat nothing but bananas and hang by their amazing animals that help plants grow, and some tails? Discover answers to these questions and more as incredible animal facts. Many pollinators are in trouble, you swing through the ins-and-outs of primates! Class and scientists need your help to protect them. Find includes instructional time with animal artifacts, live out ways that you can participate in citizen science, animals, scents, touching, and a short visit in the Zoo right from your own backyard. Class includes a short for the child and accompanying adult. instructional time with pictures, animal artifacts, live animals, interactive play, and guided short visit in the November 15 Zoo for the student and accompanying caregiver. 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM April 19 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM General Special Education Day Camp $25 per child, includes accompanying adult How-to Zoo! Ages 6-18 Do you have what it takes to run a zoo? It’s more than just exhibiting animals! Keepers must know what each animal eats and where it should live, and even how to take it to the doctor so the animal can live a zoo-pendous life! Class includes instructional time with pictures, animal artifacts, live animals, interactive play, and a guided visit in the Zoo for the child and accompanying adult. July 25 9:00 AM – noon

Zoo Just for Little You $10 per child, includes accompanying adult “Zoo Just for Little You” is for early learners ages 2-5 with special needs, who are working on developmentally appropriate milestones. Activities are movement-based and incorporate pretend play, fine and gross motor skills, verbal and nonverbal communication, and other appropriate preschool skills. This class series is designed to teach children about healthy living through animal interactions. All abilities are welcome, and classes are wheelchair accessible. To facilitate learning and play, children may bring a neuro-typical friend or sibling of a similar age, but all children must be individually registered for class. www.hoglezoo.org/zoojustforlittleyou The Rhinos Go Marching One by One Rub-a-dub-dub! The rhinos go marching one by one! Hurrah! Hurrah! Rub-a-dub-dub, two elephants in the bathtub! Find Get on the move with the Zoo animals and learn how out how animals keep their paws and teeth clean by you can exercise like an animal at home! Class includes doing many of the same things you do at home. Class stories, animal ambassadors, interactive play and a includes stories, animal ambassadors, interactive short visit in the Zoo for the child and an accompanying play and a short visit in the Zoo for the child and an adult. (Exercise) accompanying adult. (Hygiene) September 9 September 23 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM On Top of Spaghetti Put Your Right Hand In Do bears eat spaghetti? Maybe not, but they do love The gorilla puts her right hand in…and lets the doctor to munch just about everything else. You won’t believe take her pulse! Animals at the Zoo go to the doctor, just what Zoo animals eat! Some love leafy green salad, like you! They have checkups and take medicine, just others only eat juicy meat, while others eat just about like you! See how keepers and veterinarians care for anything. Find out how you eat like different animals Zoo animals when they are ill. Class includes stories, through stories, animal ambassadors, interactive animal ambassadors, interactive play and a short visit play and a short visit in the Zoo for the child and an in the Zoo for the child and an accompanying adult. accompanying adult. (Healthy diets) *Food will not (Doctors) be served in this class. September 30 September 16 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

For more information visit www.hoglezoo.org Family Programs

Nature Club Lunch with a Keeper Cost: $2.00 per person per outing $38 for person and accompanying For families of all ages (an adult must attend with children under age 18) adult, $20 each additional person 10:00 AM – noon, first Saturday of each month For ages 6 and up Want to get out into nature, but you’re not sure where This 90-minute program is great for all ages and or how? Join Utah’s Hogle Zoo for a monthly outing to provides attendees with a unique opportunity to meet learn more about the world around us, get outside, and with a member of the Zoo’s keeper and education have some fun! We’ll bring the tools and information staffs to learn about the animals and how we care for you need; you bring enough water to drink, snack and them. Each program includes a pizza lunch, a chance the right clothes to enjoy a morning outdoors. to speak with a zoo keeper, an educator and a special January 7 animal session. There must be at least one registered adult per party. This year, meet a Rocky Shores keeper Snowshoeing at Swaner Preserve and learn more about what we do to care for polar February 4 bears both in the wild and at the Zoo. Introduction to Ice Fishing with DWR at Strawberry June 7 Reservoir 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM March 4 Tundra Swan Viewing at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge April 1 Mountain Goat Viewing in Little Cottonwood Canyon May 6 Fishing with DWR at Willow Community Fishing Pond June 3 Frog Frolic at Big Cottonwood East Park ZooSnooz July 1 Project Broadtail Hummingbird Hike with Tracy Aviary Ages 5 and up August 5 $55 per person Spider Hunt at Antelope Island State Park Minimum group of 15 required September 2 One adult required for every five youths. Apple Harvest and Fish Hatchery tour in Midway, Utah October 7 One month advance reservation is Introduction to Archery with DWR at Rockport State Park required, payments must be made by 3D Archery Range credit card or cash, and cancelations must November 5 be made 2 weeks in advance. Disc Golf at Creekside Park December 2 When you Snooz, do you dream of animals? If so, Celebrate Urban Birds at Utah’s Hogle Zoo dream at the Zoo! This program allows you to spend time at the Zoo after hours, take a private Zoo tour led by one of our Eco-Explorers, enjoy a snack, meet some of our animal ambassadors, and so much more!

This interactive program is designed for any school, scout, youth organization, or family group. Campers sleep in a heated/air-conditioned building. A minimum of 15 participants is required (smaller groups may register but a minimum fee will be charged). The fee covers admission, the program, staff, night security, an evening snack and breakfast.

Contact Alexis Koontz, Eco-Explorer Team Lead, at [email protected] or (801)584-1788 to book your Zoo Snooz. Limited dates, call for availability 6:00 PM – 9:00 AM Adult Programs

Utah Master Naturalist Program $175 per person To register, please visit utahmasternaturalist.org Interested in becoming a Utah Master Naturalist? Each module of the program focuses on studying the different components of Utah’s natural systems including climate, geography, hydrology, plants and animals, as well as how these components interact and are managed. At least half of the time is spent in the field and the remaining time in the classroom. Three credits at Utah State University, per module, are available for an additional fee. While we do our best to accommodate people of all abilities, please contact Mark at [email protected] if you have any concerns. Wetlands Module (Held at the Zoo) From high alpine lakes and streams to the Great Salt Lake and unique temporary wetlands of the arid desert, UHZ Book Club Utah has a vast diversity of aquatic systems that interact $10 per person at the door for a 2017 with each other throughout, an across, watersheds. This module consists of 40 hours of instruction, at least 50 year-long membership percent of which is spent in the field. 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM June 12 – 16 Ages 14 and up 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Pay just once and join us all year! Join staff from Utah’s Hogle Zoo for a discussion of a different zoo- or conservation-related book each time, with light Mountains Module (Held at the Zoo) refreshments. Book club generally meets on the first Some of the greatest ecological diversity and Thursday of the month. Dates and this year’s books are scenic beauty in Utah exists in the forest and alpine listed below: environments. Throughout these systems, temperature, elevation, and precipitation play an important role January 5 in defining plant and animal communities and their In Suspect Terrain, by John McPhee interactions. Come join us while we explore these February 2 systems and learn about how they function, the plants and animals that live there, and how they What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love and Marriage, are managed. This module consists of 40 hours of by Amy Sutherland instruction, 80-90 percent of which is in the field. Due March 2 to the nature of the Mountains class, we will be walking Steve and Me, by Terri Irwin and hiking over some uneven terrain at relatively high April 6 altitudes. Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben August 7-11 May 4 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Soul of an Octopus, by Sy Montgomery June 1 Wild Aware Utah Training Love, Life and Elephants, by Daphne Sheldrick Wild Aware Utah is an education program providing Utah residents and visitors with wildlife awareness July 6 and safety information. Discover the many resources American Zoo, by David Grazian available to your organization to promote conflict-free August 3 encounters with wildlife. This training is designed for organization leaders (scouts, nature centers, hiking Elephant Company, by Vicki Croke clubs, campgrounds, outdoor groups, etc.), community September 14 volunteers and home owner associations who spend Ada Blackjack, by Jennifer Niven time in areas with Utah’s amazing wildlife. Please call 801-584-4551 at least two weeks in advance October 5 to schedule a Wild Aware Training for your The Tracker, by Tom Brown, Jr. organization. November 2 Rhino with Glue-on Shoes, by Ted Mashima December 7 Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye, by Zac Unger Preschool Classes

Ages 3-5 $20 per child (10% discount for members)

Children registered for the Pre-K sessions must be age 3 by the date the class session begins. We reserve the right to cancel the registrations of children registered in sessions that do not match their age/grade. No older or younger siblings allowed.

Each animal-themed program includes animal encounters, crafts and activities designed especially for early learners and their favorite grownup. Adults attend with children ages 3-5; unregistered siblings cannot be accommodated.

Snowy Valentine Animal Opposites Come out in the cold and discover what kinds of Scary or cute, big or small and fast or slow, are just valentines warm an animal’s heart. Then, help us a few of the ways we compare animals. Join us for make valentines and deliver them to some of the Zoo’s this class all about animal opposites and discover the animals. You’ll also make a gift to take home to your biggest animal at the Zoo and the smallest, the fastest favorite valentine. and the slowest and who isn’t scary at all once you get February 7 to know him! 9:30 AM – Noon May 2 9:30 AM – Noon Owl Be Seeing You Together we will discover why owls are rarely seen Never Smile at a Crocodile during the day, how they catch their dinner and whether What’s behind that toothy grin? Discover the secret they really can turn their heads all the way around. You lives of crocodiles and their scaly cousins. You’ll have never know whooo you’ll meet in this fun-filled class. a slithering good time as you explore their adaptations March 7 and discover what you can do to protect them! 9:30 AM – Noon September 5 9:30 AM – Noon It’s a Pumpkin Smash! What do elephants, cats, owls, toads and you all have in common? You all love Halloween! We promise you’ll have a smashing good time as you discover what makes these animals so special. There won’t be any tricks as we deliver some treats to some of our favorite animals. October 3 9:30 AM – Noon Bear-y Good Fun Bring your favorite bear to this class about some of our favorite bears. You’ll discover just what makes a grizzly bear and a polar bear paws-atively amazing as you compare them to your special friend. Then meet some of their animal friends that also slow down during the cool fall and winter months. November 7 9:30 AM – Noon

It’s Time for Mittens We’re Goin’ on Safari! Join us as we explore the winter world of Jan Brett’s We’ll take a safari to discover why a giraffe needs a story, The Mitten. You’ll meet some of the animals that long neck, a lion needs sharp teeth, a zebra a ton of find shelter and warmth in the lost mitten of young stripes and an ostrich such big feet. Our adventure will Nicki, the books central character. Discover why the help us discover the amazing adaptations of some of animals wanted the mitten and what they do to survive our favorite African animals. when no mittens are available! April 4 December 5 9:30 AM – Noon 9:30 AM – Noon

Zoo Camps

Summer Camps Priced per child (10% discount for members) Children must be registered for the grade they are going into at the start of the new school year. We reserve the right to cancel the registrations of children registered in sessions that do not match their age/grade. 1st Grade Camp 4th – 5th Grade Camp (Ages 5-6) (Ages 9-10) Animal Superheroes The Ultimate Camp Experience $225 $325 Faster than a speeding rhino, more powerful than a If you can only attend one camp this summer, make it thundering elephant . . . From super-strength to bionic this one! Join us for a week of signature camp activities vision, invisibility to lightning speed, animals have where each day finds campers at a different location amazing powers! Put on your mask and cape and join with new experiences. While at Camp Kostopulos, us to learn all about the superheroes of the animal students will enjoy ropes courses, horseback riding, world. Each day includes crafts, stories, games and rock climbing, and fishing. At This is the Place you’ll animal encounters. investigate Utah’s past pioneer history through train July 5-7 rides, panning for gold, and pioneer activities. Discover 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM and meet the animals that call Utah’s Hogle Zoo home. At Red Butte Garden enjoy a plethora of garden adventures from plants to insects. And, while at the 2nd – 3rd Grade Camp Natural History Museum of Utah participate in a range of science topics from chemistry and physics to earth (Ages 7-8) science and biology. One week has never been so The Ultimate Camp Experience exciting!! Register online at www.nhmu.utah.edu. $325 July 10-14 If you can only attend one camp this summer, make it 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM this one! Join us for a week of signature camp activities where each day finds campers at a different location with new experiences. While at Camp Kostopulos, students will enjoy ropes courses, horseback riding, 6th – 8th Grade Camp rock climbing, and fishing. At This is the Place you’ll (Ages 11-13) investigate Utah’s past pioneer history through train rides, panning for gold, and pioneer activities. Discover Camp Kostopulos Cooperative Camp and meet the animals that call Utah’s Hogle Zoo Build Your Own Wild Adventure home. At Red Butte Garden enjoy a plethora of garden adventures from plants to insects. And, while at the $325 Natural History Museum of Utah participate in a range Ever wonder what it takes to run a zoo or maybe what of science topics from chemistry and physics to earth it takes to run a camp? Discover both during this week- science and biology. One week has never been so long cooperative camp at Utah’s Hogle Zoo and Camp exciting!! Register online at www.nhmu.utah.edu. Kostopulos. At the Zoo, go on rounds, uncover the “ins and outs” of animal care, and complete a team animal June 19-23 enrichment project while making some wild animal 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM friends. At Camp Kostopulos connect with wild places while rock climbing, horseback riding, fishing and completing a rope courses. Discover what it takes to open a world of opportunity for people of all abilities! Teams will use their newfound knowledge to build a wild conservation adventure that preserves wild animals and wild places! June 26-30 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM 9th-10th Grade Camp (Ages 14-15) Code for Conservation $325 Join us for Utah’s Hogle Zoo’s first coding camp for beginners! Enjoy the full zoo camp experience with animal encounters and behind the scenes peeks, while learning about the world of coding. Work with a partner to create conservation games through the visual block-based scripting language of the app TaleBlazer. Computers and other technology devices will be provided for camp use. July 17-21 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Keeper Camp (Ages 12-17) $100 per child (10% discount for members) Do you love animals? Do you think measuring, scrubbing, sweeping and interacting with wild animals would be a perfect day? Have you always wanted to be a zookeeper? Well, here is your chance to see if you have what it takes. Come to the Zoo for a hands-on, behind the scenes, fun-filled day. Participants will spend their day with a staff member preparing animal diets, cleaning exhibits and creating enrichment for some of our animals. We will provide lunch, a T-shirt and a Keeper-tastic time!

Restrictions: • Participants must submit a current (within three months of camp date) and certified negative TB test two weeks prior to camp. Submission form can be found online, at hoglezoo.org. • We reserve the right to cancel the registrations of children registered in sessions that do not match their age/grade. • Participants must wear weather-appropriate clothing and close-toed shoes that can get dirty and wet. • Due to the nature of the program, each camp is limited to 4 participants, with a minimum of two participants. • If a camp must be canceled, participants will be notified in advance.

7:30 AM – 2:30 PM April 14 June 10 June 24 July 8 July 22 August 5 August 19 October 21

For more information visit www.hoglezoo.org Scout Programs

Cub Scouts Girl Scouts The Hogle Zoo Trails patch makes for a fun day at the Zoo with your Cub den! Scouts in the Great Salt Lake $15 per child Council can earn their badge while visiting the Zoo in Leaders are free. No unregistered children. Adults may uniform, picking up litter on the grounds, and learning stay, or drop off and pick up. Girl Scout programs about 20 animals they see at the Zoo. Details are are available by request for groups of at least 8 girls. online at www.hoglezoo.org under Education Programs: Available topics: Brownies Pets badge, Junior Animal Community Programs. Badges can be purchased at Habitats badge, and the Senior Voice for Animals the Scout store. badge. Please call 801-584-4551 at least two weeks in Interviews with Zoo staff during your Zoo advance to schedule a Girl Scout class. visit can help with conservation and science requirements. Short interviews are free with admission and need to be arranged at least 2 weekdays in advance. To set up an interview, please call 801-584-4551.

For more information visit www.hoglezoo.org Boy Scouts $15 per child All registration must be completed online 48 hours before the class. Leaders are free. Scout classes are also open to non-scout students. No unregistered children. Adults may stay, or just sign students in and out. Our merit badge classes were named the 2011 Environmental Education Program of the Year by the Utah Society for Environmental Education.

Because of the nature of the badge requirements, we are not able to complete an entire merit badge during class hours. Badge requirements not completed in our classes can be done in advance and signed off at the scheduled class. Blue merit badge cards will be provided.

Have a whole troop that needs a badge? Can’t make one of our dates listed below? Badge workshops can be arranged for groups of 8 Scouts or more. Call 801-584-4551 at least two weeks in advance to arrange a merit badge class.

Interested in earning the Hornaday badge? We teach all of the required merit badges for this award! For more information, look up the Hornaday Medal on www.scouting.org. Soil and Water Conservation Merit Badge Nature Merit Badge Our buildings, farms, and quality of life all depend on having clean water and soil. What is soil and water $20 registration conservation and how are we a part of it? During class, Fun, hands-on activities will help you get back to nature we plan to finish requirements 1-6. (and a little bit dirty) during your visit to the Zoo. During class, we plan to finish requirements 1, 2, 4C and 3, August 17 plus get started on 4A, 4D, 4E and 4G. Please note that 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM this class is four hours long. June 8 Fish and Wildlife Management Merit Badge 8:00 AM – noon Fish, wildlife and people all share this planet, and management of all their needs is a science and an art. Learn how wildlife managers help balance the needs of Reptile and Amphibian Study Merit Badge different species in this 3-hour class. We will complete Some are slippery, some are slimy; few are scary. Learn requirements 1, 2, 3, 4, 6B, and 8. more about reptiles and amphibians and meet a few from the Zoo as you work on your merit badge. We will May 11 finish requirements 1-7, 9B and 10. We recommend 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM that Scouts do requirement 8B to complete their badge. March 30 Insect Study Merit Badge 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM You’ll fly through all the requirements except 4, 7 and 8 in this eventful and “buggy” evening. Come discover August 31 the exciting world of insects! 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM July 27 October 12 9:00 AM – Noon 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Bird Study Merit Badge Environmental Science Merit Badge Get a hefty start on your bird study merit badge, Environmental science affects everything around us and meet some of the Zoo’s birds up close. You will from the foods we eat to the car commercials we see complete requirements 1, 2, 3, and 4. Please bring on TV. Come learn more about this important topic binoculars or a spotting scope. while you work on your merit badge. We will complete July 28 requirements 1, 2, 3A, 3B, 3D, 3E, 4, and 6 in class. 9:00 AM – noon April 20 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Mammal Study Merit Badge June 9 Learn more about your furry friends and work on your Mammal Study merit badge. We will complete 9:00 AM – noon requirements 1, 2, 3C, and 4G in class. August 24 April 27 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM September 21 September 28 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Teacher/School Programming

• Bringing a field trip to the Zoo? • • Want the Zoo to come to your school? • • Interested in checking out kits to use in the classroom? •

Check our website, www.hoglezoo.org under Education: Teacher Programs and School Programs for more information! Teacher Workshops Growing Up Wild Project WILD Growing Up WILD is an early childhood education program that builds on children’s sense of wonder Cost: $35 about nature and invites them to explore wildlife and To register, please visit www.usee.org the world around them. This workshop is designed Attend a fun-filled and interactive educator training, for K-2nd grade teachers, science coordinators and with hands-on experiences in conducting activities school administrators. You will receive the Growing and implementing the Project WILD program. Ideal Up WILD educator’s guide, resource materials and for teachers, environmental educators, school more. This workshop is only for formal K-2nd grade administrators, after-school program staff, and youth Utah teachers, science coordinators or administrators group/service organization leaders. You will receive the that are currently teaching. Space is limited to 20 Project WILD educator’s guide, resource materials and participants. Contact [email protected] for more. Do you have a group of teachers who would like more information and to register. a workshop? Contact us at 801-584-4551 for more information. April 15 March 11 9:30 AM - Noon 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM July 26 Planting “SEEd”s of 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM Conservation Cost: $20 per person CI - Water Are you a 6-8th grade teacher who wants ideas for the new SEEd standards? During this one-day workshop, Cost: $10 you’ll explore how to connect the new standards and Science teachers for 6-12th grades are invited to phenomenon based learning with the natural world. participate in this two-hour professional development The workshop will feature in-the-field science and Zoo workshop designed to introduce CI - Water science and conservation programs you can use to attract your modeling resources into the science curriculum. students to the world of science. This workshop introduces you to our resource kit that Participants in the workshop will engage in relevant can be checked out to engage students in hands-on inquiry investigations that are connected to the SEEd science with water. You’ll explore the models, water standards using the Zoo’s science-based conservation sampling materials and more. Contact kgallo@ programs and living classroom to gain knowledge and hoglezoo.org for more information. ideas. Lessons are flexible, allowing teachers to adjust May 3 for their students’ abilities. This workshop will also show you how to use the Zoo as a teaching resource and the 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM many tools we can provide you to enhance learning in your classroom. Please dress for the weather and wear comfortable shoes as you will be spending time on Zoo grounds. Contact [email protected] for more information. August 1 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM

After School Programming Wildlife Club Cost: $12.00 a session For youth ages 9-13 Calling all kids that love wildlife and gardening! Utah’s Hogle Zoo has an exciting new after-school club for youth ages 9-13. Youth can become certified Wildlife Gardeners by completing group and individual projects throughout the year, earning badges and certificates. 4-H members and individuals are encouraged to join this Junior Master Gardener program. 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM, second Tuesday of each month January 10 April 11 July 11 October 10 February 14 May 9 August 8 November 14 March 14 June 13 September 12 December 12 Citizen Science

Utah’s Chapter FrogWatch USA Training Free Have you ever wanted to help scientists collect data that will make a difference for local wetland communities? Are you interested in becoming a voice for conservation in your community? Do you enjoy visiting wetland areas and listening to frogs? Then FrogWatch USA, the new citizen science conservation program, is for you!

FrogWatch USA is a frog and toad monitoring program where volunteers learn the calls of local species, identify them by song in the field, and record their findings. By collecting data, volunteers not only contribute to knowledge about wetlands and which frog species are found in their area, but they will also be able to educate members of their community about wetland conservation. To date, the data gathered by citizen scientists throughout the country has provided information about frog distribution, wetland health, and climate impacts on wildlife. You will help determine: • which species of frogs and toads are in an area, • if there are rare or invasive species in Utah, • where each species is found, and • when different species breed.

This one-day training will be held on Download the free Thursday, March 9 and March 23 7:00 to 9:00 PM Amphibians of Utah app To RSVP for one of the dates, please call 801-584-4551. from iTunes or the Amazon Have a group that wants to participate, but can’t make the dates above? Call to arrange a class. App Store.

Kestrel Box Project Citizen Science Surveys Utah’s Hogle Zoo is excited to be a part During the summer months, join our citizen science biologist on of the American Kestrel Partnership! Help surveys in Utah mountains to understand where remaining boreal these beautiful birds by hanging up and toads are living. We offer single-day or multi-day no cost excursions monitoring a kestrel nest box on your where you will learn more about Utah’s wildlife and wildplaces property. while contributing scientific data to help guide conservation priorities. These experiences are well suited for the adult outdoor enthusiast whether you are a novice citizen scientist or someone For more information or to pick up a with more experience! nest box, call 801-584-4551. Please contact Liz Larsen, Director of Conservation at [email protected] for more information. Volunteer at the Zoo

Volunteers If you can’t get enough of the Zoo, or just want to see what it’s like to work here, consider becoming a volunteer! Our volunteers – ages 14 and up – generally work one shift per week in either animal care or education. Applications and more information can be found at www.hoglezoo.org.

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