Contact: Nancy Nabak, nancyn@woodlanddunes.org,
920-793-4007
Two Rivers -
Woodland Dunes Nature Center will receive $2,100 from the Wisconsin Department
of Natural Resources to help monitor local bat populations and species. “Expanding the Bat Monitoring Program at
Woodland Dunes” was among 21 projects selected for assistance by the 2017-18
Wisconsin Citizen-based Monitoring Partnership Program. Jess Johnsrud,
Education Coordinator and Assistant Director for Woodland Dunes will head the
monitoring program.
“We’re very excited to be partnering with so many excellent
groups of volunteers,” said Eva Lewandowski, who coordinates the Citizen-based
Monitoring Program for DNR. “The projects that are receiving contract awards
will contribute high priority information about Wisconsin’s natural resources
across the state and stretch state dollars further by providing matching funds
and in-kind volunteer hours.”
Through the Citizen-based Monitoring Partnership Program,
the DNR works with community and school groups, conservation organizations and
other agencies to gather critical information on plants, animals, water and
other natural resources. Projects are selected through a competitive review
process with projects eligible to receive up to $5,000 in funding per year.
Since it started in 2004, the Partnership Program has helped
fund 261 high priority natural resource monitoring projects statewide.
More information on the Wisconsin Citizen-based Monitoring
Network is available at http://wiatri.net/cbm/.
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