(Okoboji)– Registration is about to conclude for the Iowa Master Conservationist Program in Dickinson county. Sue Boettcher, Adult Program Coordinator with ISU Extension and Outreach says the deadline to sign up is tomorrow (Thurs.). The cost is $50 per person.
Boettcher says the program consists of about 12 hours of online curriculum along with some hands-on activities and tours. She says it begins this coming Tuesday, August 15th, at the Maser Monarch Lodge on the campus of the Dickinson County Nature Center…
“At 5:30 we’ll provide a supper and then we’ll have an orientation of what the program is going to look like. And then after that we’ll meet weekly on Tuesday nights. They’ll watch the videos online and then we will do a tour. So like the first week is we’re going to be at Silver Lake, at the restoration project that they’re doing over there, both on the lakeshore and the oak savannah restoration project. On prairies we’re going to go to The Prairie Flower. For aquatics we’re going to have Mike Hawkins with the DNR and some of his crew. We’re going to go to Ainsworth Beach which is the south shore of Big Spirit and we’re going to put some nets out and pull them in and see what kind of aquatic life we have there. And then there’s a bus tour, a watershed bus tour. Lots of great tours and opportunities to learn from our local DNR officials.”
You can sign up and get more information by contacting ISU Extension and Outreach Dickinson County at 336-3488. Again the deadline to sign up is tomorrow (Thurs.).
